Celebrated the Spanish his Copa del Rey conquered in Mestalla and closed the Lugo an anodyne campaign in Second B when Diego López left, when he had just reached the age of majority, that summer 2000, the club of his life to try his luck in a Real Madrid. “I had to work not twice or three times as much as the others, but more,” he recently recalled in AS. Today the goalkeeper surprisingly returns for the first time to the Angel Car as a veteran of a Espanyol who plays much more than three points in a scenario that has become impregnable (follow the game live on AS.com).
Since the arrival of Nafti On the sixth matchday, he did not lose in the Anxo Carro el Lugo, which shows how credentials the good game of the first round in Weather in Cornellà, where the albivermellos were better at times and were close to scratching something. At present, the Lugo transits with calm for Second, in the temperate zone and without the surprises of past seasons. In addition, the club bet heavily on this winter market, incorporating on loan to Arvin Appiah, player from Almeria which cost almost nine million last season and could debut against the parrots.
In sports, Nafti has between algodones a Chris Ramos and to the electric Gerard Valentin, so the return to eleven of the ‘Puma’ Rodríguez on the left and from Cristian Herrera on the right. Up Manu Barreiro will continue to be the benchmark after his two goals against him Leganés, while Xavi Torres and Juanpe will share the handle.
But Appiah, a double agent as he was on loan from a direct rival of the parakeets such as Almería – right now, with one more point and one less game -, will not be the only forward that debuts in a call. Although he also points to the bench, with Espanyol he traveled this Sunday Landry Nany Dimata, on loan from Anderlecht after passing two exhaustive medical examinations and called to be the duo in attack of a Raúl de Tomás that today can be spurred on after having lost the ‘top scorer’ of the category in favor of Uros Djurdjevic.
While waiting for the goal to be consolidated, the other facet to be recovered by Espanyol is defensive solidity, to which the return of David López After serving a sanction, just what the main blue and white absence in the Anxo Carro will have to do against Lugo: Sergi Darder.
Although, beyond the players, what can not miss to the set of Vicente Moreno are the points. After suffering three defeats in the last four days and having temporarily fallen from direct promotion, it is only worth winning. And, paradoxically, if you do it this Monday and Sunday against Mallorca, not only will you drop third position but rhe will regain the lead. Magical. Like the return to Lugo of Diego López, the prodigal son.
