Not even the best first half of the season at home prevented Espanyol from becoming one joke to Nuevo Mirandilla (2-2). The white-and-blues ended up tying a game that they had dominated and that they might have lost if it hadn’t been for a providential goal by De Tomás in the 95th minute. to sunken rivals. Yesterday he was not able to sentence a Cadiz player who has been without a home win for eight months.
Vicente Moreno wanted to hide the letters until the last minute. The coach chose Cabrera as the left winger and opted for an associative trivot. Morlanes, Darder and Melendo gave the white-and-blues the criteria in the middle of the field that they had missed so much in recent weeks. Moreno himself had acknowledged this: his is a team where talent stands out more than the physical, and this is what Espanyol tried to take advantage of in Nuevo Mirandilla.
Taking advantage of the amazing facilities offered by Cadiz inside, the white-and-blues knew how to generate the numerical superiority they generated in the middle of the field to make a Cadiz overtaken in defense. For a long time, Espanyol was not so superior to a rival in the Primera Division. The precipitation and the constant losses, an endemic disease at home, were left behind thanks to the good work of the three in the middle, who knew how to order the team judiciously. The advantage of having three smart players who know how to play the game is that, when needed, they know how to swap roles to bring new records to the team. Thus came the goal of Morlanes, a player who, despite starting as a theoretical pivot, ended with a shot worthy of a striker a delicious pass from Darder between the two centers.
Espanyol continued to generate arrivals, but almost never finished them with clear shots. Most dangerous, an attempt at RdT Vaseline before the break that failed to overcome Ledesma. The white-and-blues repeated a common mistake this course: not sentencing matches when they can. In the second half it was an unrecognizable team. And Cadiz, who were doing almost nothing, entered the game thanks to a lucky play. Horredo’s Sergi Gómez drove the ball hard to the corner but mightn’t get it past a stretched out arm of his keeper. Cadiz fully entered a game that was broken in the second half. Espanyol did not appear following the break and gave the initiative to a rival who believed in it more. Negredo ended up scoring two more goals, both of which were disallowed, until in the first minute of added time he assisted in a wing service to Alejo, who made it 2-1. Espanyol looked dead when, out of nowhere, they found the equalizer in the last action of the match.
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