2023-10-05 23:57:51
The Spanish I needed to win if he wanted to become the leader of the leaderboard. The parakeets did not have a good match offensively, but they knew how to take advantage of their opportunities and ended up winning by two goals to zero against the bottom of the league. They knew how to suffer and finish the game in time. In addition, they ended up signing the second consecutive clean sheet.
Espanyol came out as usual in the nine games they have played in this League: owning the ball and generating danger from the first minutes. Proof of this is that already in the first minute of the game, the parakeet team had a very clear chance to score. Edu Exposito He put a ball from the baseline that Puado finished (somewhat forced, but with an advantage) over the Cartagena goal.
In any case, around minute 10 of the game, the Cartagena He had a couple of approaches that took the blue and white rearguard by surprise (Pere Milla was very attentive to help with the defensive tasks). Espanyol wanted to take control from the start of the match, but knew that they could lose control of the match if they began to make inaccuracies. However, the parakeet team, through its most important players, knew how to get out of that pressure that did not allow it to generate effective ball circulation. In the 20th minute, Espanyol opened the scoring: Braithwaite He left a ball for Javi Puado to assist Pere Milla, who finished with pleasure.
From the first goal of the match onwards, the parakeets took more control of the game and Cartagena barely had any approaches (outside of the initial attempts). Furthermore, the game had to be stopped around the 30th minute. Omar El Hilali, Espanyol’s right back, warned the match referee that several Cartagonova fans had made racist insults at him. The referee came to speak with the delegates and coaches to tell them that until the cessation of this type of behavior, the match would not be resumed. After approximately three minutes, the game continued as normal.
The second half also began with an aggressive Espanyol as the protagonist, although that was not going to last long. It is true that, when leaving the locker room, Nico Melamed He kicked a very good free kick that Marc Martínez had to stop and, later, Braithwaite tried a bicycle kick that came very close to the post of the Cartagena goal. But, anyway, around the 60th minute, Cartagena was very close to scoring the first goal. A triple chance for those from Murcia set off all the alarms in Espanyol, who became very nervous as a result of the attacks from Cartagena and lost control of the match. The Murcian team had its clearest chances in these minutes. Furthermore, Fernando Pacheco wanted to pass a ball that crashed into the head of the home team’s forward, although the parakeet goalkeeper managed to get the ball out before he entered the goal.
Cartagena pressed throughout the second half, and Espanyol seemed to be very nervous. The approaches and danger Now the locals generated it, while the parakeets had difficulties in getting the ball and attacked on few occasions. However, when Cartagena was ahead in the final minutes, Espanyol created a counterattack that finished sentencing the match. Puado put a ball into space that Ramón Ramos took advantage of with his speed and ended up leaving it behind for Braithwaite to score into an empty goal. It was not a good game in attack for the parakeets, but the solvency and quality of their squad allowed them to add the three points.
Two days without fitting
The Barcelonans knew how to take advantage of the moments when they should have been effective to alleviate the attacks of Cartagena, which was offensive and put the League leader in trouble. The positive notes of the Espanyol match go through its defensive solidity (there are already two days in a row without conceding) and for their effectiveness (their forwards did not fail and were favored by the presence of Álvaro Aguado who came off the bench and is trying to find a place in the starting eleven). Now, parakeets lead the category, although Zaragoza follows them, with one point less (19). Espanyol’s next game will be against Villarreal B on Monday at nine at night.
MATCH SHEET
Espanyol: Pacheco, Omar El Hilali (87′ Óscar Gil), Sergi Gómez (75′ Fernando Calero), Cabrera, Brian Oliván, Nico Melamed (66′ José Gragera), Pol Lozano (75′ Álvaro Aguado), Edu Expósito (87′ Ramón Ramos), Pere Milla, Javi Puado, Martin Braithwaite.
Cartagena: Marc Martínez, Alcalá, Gonzalo Verdú (74′ Juan José Narváez), Iván Calero, José Fontán, Mikel Rico (59′ Jonathan Carmona), Tomás Alarcón, Isak Jansson (86′ Jony Rodríguez), José Luis Muñoz (59′ Héctor Hevel), Umaro Embaló (75′ Arnau Solà), Alfredo Ortuño.
Goals: 0-1 Pere Milla (20′), 0-2 Martin Braithwaite.
Referee: Milla Alvendiz (Andalusian). He cautioned Mikel Rico (17′), Nico Melamed (31′), Martin Braithwaite (38′), Pol Lozano (61′), Umaro Embaló (61′), Tomás Alarcón (90′), Jony Rodríguez (90+8 ‘).
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