At a bad time it comes to RCD Espanyol the Tourmalet that lies ahead next November. Those of Manolo Gonzalezthat today They have returned to training with their sights set on Thursday’s cup clash against the Saint Tirsusin Riazor (7:00 p.m.), they harvested, in front of the Sevilletheir second consecutive defeat, the fifth in the last six days (Real Madrid, Villarreal, Real Betis, Athletic Club and the aforementioned Sevilla).
A bad streak that contrasts with the good start of the team, which after losing the first two games on its return to the First Division (Valladolid, away, and Real Sociedad, at the RCDE Stadium) added seven points in one go, tying in a whole Metropolitan and defeating, before his audience, Ray and Alavés.
44 days have passed since then, with the triumph over the Majorcaon the return of Sergi Darderas the only reason for joy for a Espanyolism that on Friday once again cried out against its president, Chen Yansheng.
Return to Montjuïc
And what is to come is not exactly rosy. On Sunday (4:15 p.m.) Spanish will return, 15 years after his move to Cornellà-El Prat, to the Montjuïc mountain, where he will face a FC Barcelona who arrives at the derby with morale through the roof after beating Bayern Munich (4-1) and real Madrid (0-4), at the Bernabéu.
Six days later (Saturday 9/11, 6:30 p.m.), back at their fiefdom, the parakeets will receive the now bottom player, a Valencia in low hours that it has only been able to add seven points in 11 games (Espanyol, one point above the relegation zone, has 10). Or what is the same. A duel in the face of a dog for permanence between two historic figures of our football who have fallen into disrepair and with a common denominator: the disastrous management of Rastar and Meriton.
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And, after a new international break, the last port. Montilivi (Saturday 11/23, 6:30 p.m.), where the Spanish will be measured at a Girona very different from the one that fell in Las Palmas, since its coach, Michel Sanchezshould already have players like Iván Martín, Bryan Gil, Viktor Tsygankov either Abel Ruizall of them key in their plans and currently injured.
