In these modern times, being a parakeet is a risky sport, because Espanyol being in the Second Division is not enough penance for these seasoned fans. Things can always get a little worse. For example, it is possible that in one of the most important matches of the course, the team borders on ridicule against a rival who is almost an enemy of the person who owns it, Gerard Piqué, who lived the match from a booth and not from the box. . Therefore, what the blue and white fan experienced yesterday was one of those nightmares in which the villain always guesses the movements of his victim. Braithwaite’s punch woke him up before he fell off the cliff but, like his team in the fight for promotion, he stayed on the edge.
After nine games without losing and sensations always in crescendo in football since the arrival of Manolo González, against Andorra the blue and white team suffered an aberrant decline. At this point in the championship, Espanyol should be going to win each game with an offensive vocation, but this time they could not even overcome the middle of the field for many minutes. Without Aguado in the midfield, but with Keidi Bare, Espanyol was a complete disaster with the ball. An orderly pressure from his rival was enough to expose him. The whistles from the stands, certainly deserved, increased the nervousness of a team very afraid of not achieving its objective.
And with these ingredients, Andorra displayed itself as a formidable team in the offensive phase. The Catalan Ferran Costa, Éder Sarabia’s replacement, has continued with the task of his predecessor but has introduced greater offensive ambition. Joan García became the target of a team that only lacked greater fortune in scoring to subdue their hard-working rival. He did enjoy it in the first half in a fantastic combination that Iván Gil finished off from the left. Something that woke up the parakeet team, although their arrivals at the edge of the area cannot even be classified as dangerous chances.
At half-time González moved the bench. He sat down Keidi Bare and finally gave way to Álvaro Aguado, a footballer technically gifted to govern any match. And Espanyol fought it with better intentions. But that was it. A fight. Nothing flows in the parakeet team. Everything is forced. It was Martin Braithwaite, the usual one, the differential player of the category, who furiously finished off a cross from the right by Omar, the first in the entire match. The Dane was one of the few at his level on a spring day of football allergy in Cornellà. Shortly after, he almost made the comeback with a toe shot that hit the post.
Heart alone was not enough to achieve the three points. He was close despite playing with Puado injured in the last few minutes. Another time he claimed a penalty on Gragera which the referee decided was not the case. Thus, two more points from Cornellà disappeared in the match, a priori, easier than the remaining ones. What’s coming is a Tourmalet. Elche, Sporting, Valladolid and Oviedo. Meanwhile, second place moves away and the parakeet no longer knows whether to be disappointed, angry or continue believing.
