2023-11-12 21:38:37
TECHNICAL SHEET OF THE MATCH Huska: Álvaro Fernández; Nieto, Pulido, Blasco; Valentín (Tresaco, 89′), Mier (Lombardo, 68′), Sielva, Javi Martínez, Loureiro (Vilarrasa, 68′); Joaquín Muñoz (Vallejo, 73′) and Obeng (Bolívar, 68′). Coach: Antonio Hidalgo Spanish: Pacheco; Omar (Óscar Gil, 86′), Sergi Gómez, Cabrera, Brian Oliván (Ramos, 46′); Salvi (Jofre, 59′), Expósito (Bare, 59′), Gragera, Puado; Pere Milla (Keita Baldé, 86′) and Braithwaite. Coach: Luis Miguel Ramis Goals: 0-1 Puado (54′), 1-1 Vilarrasa (78′) Referee: Fuentes Molina (Comitè Valencian) Yellow cards: Brian Oliván (32′), Expósito (38′), Blasco ( 53′), Valentín (64′), Gragera (93′), Keidi Bare (95′), Óscar Gil (96′) Red cards: none Stadium: El Alcoraz, 7,303 spectators
If the most complex football language didn’t work, the simpler one doesn’t give better results either. Espanyol left Huesca after saving a point (1-1) against a relegation rival who made life very difficult for him and who deserved much more. The Luis Miguel Ramis era began with rather worrying sensations. He has a job, the new coach, who needs to turn around a team that has forgotten to play and score. A worrying dynamic that keeps the white-and-blues away from the leading positions. At the outset, the change to the bench has not been a shocker.
In his first line-up, Ramis opted for a very conservative eleven, with a conservative double pivot formed by Gragera and Expósito that made his intentions quite clear. Few inventions, a team that did not go out to press, but waited in the middle of the field and proposed two lines of four close together to not concede spaces. The main goal was clear: not to fit in. Espanyol, arranged in a fairly orderly 4-4-2, tried not to complicate life too much, proposing a more pragmatic game than with Luis García to minimize errors.
During practically the entire first half, Espanyol ceded the initiative to a Huesca who, despite not being able to generate clear chances, did show intent and desire and had some high shots that did not find the goal for good little Especially on the right side, with Gerard Valentín carrying Brian Oliván by the neck, the Aragonese looked with more insistence for a goal that was resisted. Espanyol, quite protected, did not have ideas in the middle to build, nor much desire to take risks. In fact, it could be said that for a good part of the game the white-and-blues felt comfortable giving up attacking.
A single shot from Espanyol on goal
Espanyol, which for so long had cursed unfortunate or, directly, incomprehensible VAR performances, this time celebrated two interpretations in its favor. The first, just before the break: a refusal by Cabrera with his arm when he was the last man in front of Obeng was not punished. A controversial play in which the Uruguayan was probably considered to have swept the ball with his hand on the ground. Just after the restart, Espanyol managed to open the can after the referee signaled a penalty at the hands of Blasco in an action that was reviewed for a slight push from Braithwaite, and which the referee considered insufficient. Puado did not forgive from the eleven meters and signed his ninth goal of this course. This, in fact, was Espanyol’s only shot on goal in the entire match. A fact that summarizes the match.
With the advantage, however, Espanyol kept the same screeching script. Far from going in search of the second, he allowed Huesca to grow on the basis of occasions. Pacheco, stretching his foot, avoided the tie in a very clear finish from Valentín. The Aragonese, however, ended up finding it 1-1 in the third VAR review of the night: Vilarrasa received a pass inside the area from Pulido in a doubtful position, but the review of the images confirmed that, for millimeters, Keidi Bare enabled it. Very fair position, almost on the limit, but correct in the eyes of the VAR, who gave the goal as a good one. The goal, all said, did justice to the merits of the locals, who had looked for the goal with more insistence. A draw and thanks, because in the final stretch Gragera saved a goal under the posts and Pacheco had a lot of work to do.
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