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0-0: Quality Draw

A very serious Espanyol adds a point of merit in the Calderón

Espanyol added a golden point in the Calderón after an intense, serious game and that confirms the exercise of solidarity between the players to get something positive of a complicated field.

The tie means, on the one hand, that the team adds its eighth game without losing and, in a personal capacity, places Diego López in the barrier of 500 minutes with a clear sheet.

And the game? More or less as it was expected. The locals practice an insistent game, many aids, collaborative, and that forces the rival not to lose detail, to be fully concentrated because the same close tightly gallop to the opposite goal in three passes. Quique distributed his players on the pitch to play a tactical game that required as much concentration as a decision. Although the ball came and went, from one side of the field to the other, Oblak and Diego Lopez were hardly disturbed until the final stretch in which the local goal had to come out to cover a shot Gerard after a good action. In the second he had another equal. This time in front of Baptistao. In 59, that action woke up the white and ble who signed in the next few minutes of kilates soccer, until Diego López also put of its part and deviated spectacularly a shot of Gabi. The give and take was continuous from that moment on.

The last minutes the team drew forces of weakness to try to nullify all local attempts to find the flash that gave them the victory. The players emptied and deserved the praise of the coach and the team, who understood the blue-white effort.