A skinny dog is all about fleas. After reaping two defeats in six days (4-1 at the Santiago Bernabéu and 1-2 against Villarreal, at Cornellà-El Prat), the RCD Espanyol will visit Real Betis in a rarefied environment. Because of how the duel against the ‘groguets’ ended, including throwing a glass at the referee, Alejandro Quintero Gonzálezand because in the VOR room of Benito Villamarín there will be an intimate enemy of the entity: Carlos del Cerro Grandewho two seasons ago dictated Perico’s relegation to the Second Division, in Mestalla.
A concatenation of circumstances to which we must add the central problem that the Spanish coach will have to deal with, Manolo Gonzalez. The man from Lugo, who has opted for the couple formed by Marash Kumbulla and Lele Cabrera in the last three games, he was forced to substitute the Uruguayan at half-time on Thursday. “Tomorrow (by today) we will really know how it is. He had discomfort in the soleus, as he had in the previous injury, in the same place,” he said.
Sergi Gomez was the one who replaced Cabreraalthough Manolo He explained that it was because Fernando Calerorecently recovered from a sprained ankle, was not seen to play the entire second half. “He came from the injury and we wanted to know how he was. Calero told the physical trainer that he was ready for half an hour but not to last the entire second half, that’s why we decided to let Sergi Gómez come out,” continued the man from Folgoso de Caurel.
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Thus, while waiting for more news about the physical state of Cabrera and Calerohe Spanish could land in Seville with Kumbulla (which is also warned) and Sergi Gomez as the only centre-backs available and the real possibility that the youth squad José Luis Catalàwho already left very good feelings in the preseason, will debut with the first team in an official match.