Gerard Moreno’s Villarreal shuts down Espanyol in Cornellà | Soccer | Sports | EUROtoday
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Espanyol’s fuse went out little by little. The preliminary chunk, though with out poison, and the defensive order, though passive, of the blue and white light towards a Villarreal with the heavy artillery on the bench, however with effectiveness and management of the match on Marcelino’s scoreboard (0-2). The yellow submarine, in a powerful begin to the league, climbs to second place within the desk, whereas Espanyol stays sixth.
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Marko Dmitrovic, Fernando Calero, José Salinas, Omar El Hilali (Rubén Sánchez, min. 81), Leandro Cabrera, Tyrhys Dolan, Pere Milla (Charles Pickel, min. 70), Pol Lozano (Kike García, min. 59), Urko González de Zárate (Miguel Rubio, min. 81), Edu Expósito (Jofre Carreras, min. 70) and Roberto Fernandez
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Luiz Júnior, Pau Navarro, Rafa Marín, Alfonso Pedraza, Renato Veiga, Thomas Partey, Alberto Moleiro (Sergi Cardona, min. 82), Santi Comesaña (Pape Gueye, min. 73), Tajon Buchanan (Ilias Akhomach, min. 82), Tani Oluwaseyi (Ayoze Pérez, min. 73) y Gerard Moreno (Nicolas Pépé, min. 70)
Goals
0-1 min. 42: Gerard Moreno. 0-2 min. 56: Alberto Moleiro
Referee Alejandro José Hernández Hernández
yellow playing cards
Tajon Buchanan (min. 60), Pau Navarro (min. 80)
It was a duel of ambitions on the high of the desk, a conflict additionally able to figuring out the course of the season for each, who had been coming off two defeats. Marcelino left Cyprus indignant after shedding onerous towards the modest Pafos, and after the European effort, the coach made eight modifications to his beginning eleven. Manolo González joined the revolution, making an attempt to regain momentum with six modifications in comparison with the defeat towards Alavés and with out having the ability to rely on Romero and Terrats as a result of worry clause.
Espanyol, emotionally midway between the one hundred and twenty fifth anniversary and the dangerous information of the center assault of the sports activities director, Fran Garagarza, took refuge in its RCDE Stadium. The stadium is their ordinary fortress, and till this Saturday they’d solely misplaced one sport at house. Against Villarreal, the stability was not optimistic.
Aware of the urgency of the objective, Espanyol took the initiative with verticality and pace. He discovered gaps within the rival protection after lengthy passes and mixtures from Urko, Dolan and Edu Expósito on the proper, and Salinas, Pere Milla and Pol Lozano on the left. Villarreal, for its half, remained withdrawn in its subject and waited for the assaults of the blue and white, who reached Luiz Júnior’s space so much and nicely.
The chilly ambiance within the blue and white stadium was additionally transferred to the sector: the hazard was as obvious because it was innocuous, with no pictures on objective for the blue and white. The greatest drawback for the native crew got here when Villarreal pressed. Espanyol, too cautious with out the ball, waited nicely positioned and prevented their rivals from discovering Moleiro and Buchanan. But with the submarine scaring, the objective got here: Gerard Moreno scored the primary and solely shot between the three sticks of the primary half.
The script didn’t change within the second a part of the match. Villarreal reached Dmitrovic’s space extra simply with their counterattacks. In one in all them, Moleiro scored the second objective for the yellow crew, and Espanyol, who arrived late to the modifications, had been left bare till the tip, which ended with effort, not reward.
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