By Cillian Shields the @pile_of_eggs
Living in chaos, with only 12 team pros at the start of the preseason, historic monetary problems and one of the lowest budgets in the Second Division last season, a surprising victory in the playoffs of an overdue promotion, which allowed him to win his double promotion. manager and hiring a substitute who had never worked in Europe before and who did not have the right licenses to manage on the most sensible Spanish flight, Elche turns around again and in a position to check his luck back in La Liga.
Alicante returns to the most sensible department for the first time since 2015, when it descended despite being thirteenth, and has since raised its squad to 20 first-team players, with new and unknown faces that make up a giant component of the start. . range this year.
Back in the maximum sensible lucrative division, they are building a team with forty-five million euros, nine times more than the five million euros last year, a figure that has only exceeded the budgets of the 4 clubs promoted to Second for this campaign.
This is going to be a complicated year for the people of Elche, but if recent years have shown anything, it is that Elche has a habit of surviving in disorder, last season did not end for them until August 23, which means that until then He didn’t know which department they would be in this year and he didn’t know how to plan his team or his finances.
This dramatic uncertainty led to a scenario in which just over a week before the start of their season, in Gameweek 3, they were a La Liga club that had only 12 professional players on their books, one of whom, Nino, is a 40- a year-old striker who led the line last year and debuted in the maximum sensitive escape after coming off the bench in his first attack on the Royal Society. The coronavirus pandemic probably affected more than your plans for the new crusade. maximum others.
After his victory in the promotional playoffs over Girona, Elche fired his coach who had guided them from the 3rd to the first and replaced him with Jorge Almirón, a guy who has never played or controlled in Europe, and who may keep pace with his opening of La Liga opposed to real sociedad because he still has the right control licenses.
In fact, he came close to taking over in Las Palmas and Celta de Vigo in recent years, only to be denied passage through the league government for not having the right degree, and has since been allowed to officially assume his duties.
Elche entered this first match with 17 players registered for the new season, and some newcomers, such as Jeison Lucumo and Lucas Boyé, had not participated at all in the pre-season formation at this stage. The highest signing wanted in the history of the club, extreme. Rael Guti, who arrived for five million euros, only trained with the team last week, as well as other new signings Luismi and Miguel Cifuentes, who had to be undone after a part of an hour against the Real Sociedad for a muscle injury. Young players on the team will occupy their bench at least while the first team is forming.
In general, the Elche looked as distressed as his arrangements had promised. Many teammates literally did not know each other yet, and this is evident, as the team lacked team spirit and connection and sank 0-3 on the San Sebastian side.
At their departure time, they traveled to Eibar, a club almost universally adored from a small town in the Basque countryside, facing some of the most productive groups in the world. However, it is very believable to think that Eibar would probably not have remained a La Liga club were it not for Elche’s monetary mismanagement.
In 2014/15, Greens and Whites finished 13th, but were relegated for tax debts to the state, and Eibar, in their first fairytale season in the elite, saved from relegation despite their 18th place on the table.
Since then, Eibar has continued to consolidate its position among the Spanish elite, and has remained in the department ever since, challenging the overall expectations of a city with a general population that can adapt almost 4 times to Camp Nou.
In Piurua, Elche had a small rematch percentage for the historic fortune difference, with a 0–1 win to collect their first numbers of the season. Old Argentine striker on the verge of a couple who have not had a successful career in Europe so far, recovering between clubs from 4 other countries since reaching River Plate in Turin.
1️ 9️ 3️ 3️ then the #ElcheCF again won in #LaLigaSantander ?⚪️
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– Elche Club de ? (@elchecf) September 30, 2020
“I need to make peace. I look like a goal scorer,” he said in his performance as an ilicitan player, according to Marca. His fine rotation to create an area to trigger a shot that may have surprised the Eibar goalkeeper with reminiscences of the wonderful Johan Cruyff and, in fact, a clever way to start his rounding arc if Elche wants to succeed this season.
The team in southeastern Spain had one of the ultimate life-care arrangements in the highest sensible elite a team had to endure. But in any case, the Frangiverdos are accustomed to ascents, descents, rolling the cube and for glory.
Somewhere else. . .
The sky is the limit for Ansu Fati. After 3 goals in two impressive, dominant and eye-catching games and performances, the 17-year-old can claim to be the player of the season so far in the first weeks of the game.
He’s 17 years old, but he’s back on barca’s ?
3 goals (and that counts) in 2 games to start the new season of LaLiga ? pic. twitter. com/vUpYcUIByy
– Premier Sports ? (@PremierSportsTV) October 1, 2020
He shone against Celta de Vigo, especially in the first half, with a magnificent mastery to absolutely fill the trajectory of the game to score the first goal, danced around Denis Suarez, advanced Aidoo, forced the defender to shoot him, and gave Messi a smart chance to score with a visionary pass to Hugo Mallo’s legs , so that the captain slightly missed the touch with the ball. A mature functionality, in addition to its masterful functionality in the opening setting against villarreal, Fati has been one of the brightest and most decisive players of the season so far.
As for Lionel Messi, he has tried to back Celtic and has been looking for a few months, and it’s only a matter of time before he succeeds, however, he hopes to see the Argentine magician score directly from a corner in some troubles in the future.
Paco Alcicer showed a skillful and agile touch in Villarreal’s 3–1 win over Deportivo Alavés, who started the season in style, with 3 goals to his credit, scored the first and third on Wednesday night and demonstrated his mastery of Villarreal art. The sophisticated touch on both. Arriving early in front of the defenders for the first goal, it was as if Alcicer knew that Gaspar’s career would almost lead to the starting line after a deep pass by Dani Parejo opened the field completely. from the right side with a punch to advise the ball in the farthest corner.
The former Bluegrana and Valencian player then put the result beyond the Basques after hooking up a loop shot of Gerard Moreno that bounced off the pole and, with very little time to react, killed the movement of the ball with his own before waiting for the goalkeeper’s urgent jump to block. one shot, and then make the apparent selection and shoot in sight from a metre away, Alc-cer was calm enough to cleanly touch the ball over the jumper, paving the way for him to run. A global demonstration of shooting ability.
Two away matches for Cadiz in Primera already add up to six points, and his defensive setup and counterattack puts him in a good position to absorb tension and add points, but he still does not at Athletic Bilbao, betting on only nine. players for more than 20 minutes and being outnumbered for the maximum of half the moment, is beyond what was expected of them.
The late-breaking goals won in Sevilla’s two games so far have allowed them to ride a wave of confidence. Always in a position to fight to the end, the Europa League champions have shown a spirit that few other groups in world football can. to fit in. the moment, with defeated victories and comeback victories that define his last months.
Goal of the week: Marc Cucurella’s goal with the weakest foot to double Getafe’s advantage over Real Betis.
An exceptional purpose to double the advantage of the Getafe, and with its foot diminished ? pic. twitter. com/djBn60a5BZ
– Premier Sports ? (@PremierSportsTV) September 29, 2020
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