2024 brought down the football curtain leaving the spanish in a stressful situation, with the threat of a relegation that could have serious consequences for the future of the most important entity. But despite this situation, the year that is about to turn its last leaf leaves many figures that outline what twelve months full of successes and failures have been provided, with the peak of achieving promotion in the playoff final on June 23 against Oviedo and under the current classification of the team, suffering again, a common trend in recent seasons, due to its permanence in the top category.
The success of the quarry
Certainly more out of necessity than belief, last year marked the appointment of Dani Jarque as the nursery in which the Spanish should be fed. This is shown by the fact that four of the five players with the most minutes played came from the 21st. Led by Joan García, there is no doubt that one of the best news of the year in a perica. key, and Javi Puado, with ‘Lele’ Cabrera in fourth place and another youth player, Jofre Carreras, in fifth.
The ‘missed’ Braithwaite
In the director’s chapter, Martin Braithwaite has no rival when it comes to heading the Pichichi perico list, despite only spending half a year under the blue and white discipline. His 13 goals from January to the end of the season are one more than Puado’s 12 in these 366 days, split evenly between the second half of last year and the first of this year. In total, 14 players scored, to which we must add two rivals who scored an own goal: Iñigo Magaña (Eldense) and Thibaut Courtois (Real Madrid).
46 games were played
From January 1 to December 31, the Spaniard will play a total of 46 official matches. And the distribution in its outcome could not be more balanced: 15 wins, 15 draws and 16 losses. In these matches, the parakeets scored 47 goals, with an average of slightly more than one goal per match (1.02), and scored 50, giving an average of 1.1 per match.
Two coaches
These 46 games saw two coaches parade on the Espanyol bench: Luis Miguel Ramis and Manolo González. And if we compare them in the light of their statistical data, those from Tarragona are more than those from Lugo. Ramis won 40% of the games to Manolo’s 30.6%, while the current coach lost 30% to 36.1%, while the Spaniard who started the year scored 1.3 goals per game against 0.95 of the one who closed this. The defensive balance hardly favors the current bench: before they conceded 1.1 goals per 90 minutes and now, 1.08.
And two goalkeepers
Under the framework, the integration of Joan García brought Fernando Pacheco, a goalkeeper with experience and guarantees, to the bench. The young player scored 39 of the 50 goals that Espanyol conceded in his 46 official appearances, while the Madrid player, who played fewer games (nine compared to the current starter’s 37), scored 11. Joan scored 1.05 goals per party and Fernando, 1.2
Source: La Verdad
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