2023-09-29 16:52:55
Barcelona When last season Espanyol opted for Luis García as coach given the desperate situation the team was experiencing, I thought it was a mistake. Friends and acquaintances of mine who knew him and who know much more about football than I do (Oriol Domènech, Quique Iglesias) told me to trust him, that he was a very good coach. It seemed to me a populist solution: we will go to Segona, but with the coach that “the people” wanted. And I imagined – grave mistake – that Luis would be a coach who would base everything on that football rhetoric that mixes feelings, (low) passions and male sexual organs. It wasn’t like that: quite the opposite. He came to make the team play based on an idea and a game model. He made the good guys play and gave them prominence. I am still not clear if – given the situation – this change of philosophy was the best option. But if it wasn’t for random arbitrations, Luis would have saved the team.
Now he has another complicated goal: to return the club to the place where it should be and where it has almost always been. Apart from the display at the Levante pitch, the start has been a little uneven and, after seven games, we are one point off the direct promotion places and have lost the first game. This, added to some stretches of the match with surprising results, has ignited some alarm among the curiously demanding Peruvian fans. I am very calm (and not because I think that Seconda is not so bad). I trust Luis Garcia because what I see on the field convinces me.
Espanyol hadn’t played anything for years. With the brief hiatus of Rubi’s season, many years. We were used to a somewhat solid defense and a striker who scored more goals than the team itself generated. That was the trick. With Luis it is different. You see triangulations and movements with the ball that respond to an idea. Automatisms Players who occupy meaningful spaces. Neither with the appreciated Vicente Moreno nor with Diego Martínez we ever saw it. And it’s not about First or Second: with Moreno we also fought for promotion (and we got it), but we always said it was thanks to the individualities; that despite the category, we didn’t play anything.
The results rule. But the results are not the product of chance. They are a consequence of having a plan. If you have it, mistakes like Pacheco’s will be a thing of the past. I trust Luis the coach without ever being a big fan of Luis the player. If we let him do it and, when the time comes, give him the necessary parts, we have a trainer for years.
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