Delayed World Cup winners

It’s not that it was just the two of us. world cup that appear in the template, a Martin Braithwaite who accumulates four goals in this period and a Cesar Montes that ended up at the RCDE Stadium shortly after representing Mexico in Qatar. The causes of the drastic change have been many more. But the truth is that there is a Espanyol before and another after the World Cupthanks to which the team breathes diego martinez four points above the relegation zone.

LaLiga Santander 2022/2023

*Data updated as of February 28, 2023

The forced World Cup break came the parakeet team sixteenth, with 12 points in 14 days (28.5% of the possible)fruit of two victories, six draws and another six defeats, and just one from the well. Some results light years from those harvested since the League resumedin the case of Espanyol last New Years Eve with the derby against Barcelona (1-1), at the Camp Nou. That draw was the start of a comeback that is still going, for now, with the same number of wins in just one weekagainst Elche (0-1) and Mallorca (2-1), than those harvested in the first three months of the championship.

Carry 15 points in this second part of the League (55.5% of those at stake) Espanyol, with four wins, three draws and two losses, and with only five other teams ahead in this virtual classification of the last nine days: Barcelona (22 points), Atletico Madrid (18), real Madrid (17), Real society (17) and Betis (16). The Blue and Whites share their recovery with a Celtic who also accumulates 15 points in this section, and who had also added 12 until the World Cup.

One of the keys of the reaction has been in the offensive powersince since the restart Espanyol has not remained a single game without scoring. 13 targets accumulated, for the 12 received, with the addition that against Betis and Elche the parakeets ended unbeaten. The irruption of the winter signings to stop defensive vulnerability (like the aforementioned Montes and, ultimately, Fernando Pacheco), the conviction in the Diego Martinez’s ideas and, above all, the growth as a collective They have contributed to forging the metamorphosis.

However, and precisely because he has the example of this radical change, Espanyol cannot take anything for granted, with 15 days to go and with endless rivals who also add three by three in the struggle to certify permanence. Even if it gave for other objectives, relaxation would not be appropriate either.

It is not, in any case, the way of being this dressing room, which already points to Valladolidadversary this coming Sunday, which He has gone from a relaxed twelfth place, with 17 points, until the World Cup, to being third from bottom since the resumption of the League, in which he has added seven points out of 27 possible. An unbeatable opportunity, from the parrots’ point of view, to chain three wins for the first time this season and to continue climbing positions in its successful post-World Cup League.

Post-World Classification