Espanyol need to win again. After harvesting only one point from the last nine, the permanence is one step away from becoming an impossible mission and hence the visit of Real Madrid is marked in red by the Blue and Whites’ dressing room. The parakeet team cannot afford to be a troupe and must add to not continue in free fall towards Second.
Rufete, who premiered this Saturday afternoon as a parrot technician, has offered his first call and the novelties are the central Bernardo Espinosa and Leandro Cabrera. Both have served their sanctions, two and one match respectively, and will be starters at the back of the line. Dídac Vila, who was low in Seville against Betis due to discomfort in the quadriceps, and Vargas also return.
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With the returns of Bernardo and Cabrera, Espanyol is, a priori, a more reliable team behind. Both have counted, whenever they have been available, with the confidence of the former Blue and Whites’ coach Abelardo and this Sunday, if Rufete returns the ownership, they will measure the attack by Real Madrid. Precisely Cabrera knows the white club perfectly because he wore the Castilla shirt in the 2013-14 season (he coincided with Raúl de Tomás in the white branch) and suffered the descent to Second B. Now he will try to avoid Espanyol’s second division. The parakeet set is running out of bullets and Rufete can spare no effort. And fortunately, it is the first time that all the players in the squad have been available since the League restarted after confinement.
With the Abelardo era over, Rufete hopes to win back players like Vargas to the cause. It was low last day against Betis by technical decision and Rufete has summoned him to face Madrid. In this way, the complete list is made up of Diego López, Oier, Pedrosa, Víctor Sánchez, Naldo, Wu Lei, Darder, Rdt, Vargas, Calleri, Cabrera, Javi López, David López, Dídac, Melendo, Bernardo, Marc Roca, Embarba, Calero, Pol Lozano, Campuzano, Víctor Gomez and Nico Melamed. The latter debuted last day against Betis, left a great action that could have led to 1-1 and deserves continuity.
As for the casualties, Rufete has dispensed with the list of 23 of the young Villahermosa and Roman. Bernardo and Cabrera had to make room. In addition, Pipa, Ferreyra and Iturraspe are also left out., the first two with discomfort.
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