Reunion night at Espanyol – Seville

10/25/2024

Updated at 09:48 a.m.

He Sevilla FC will visit this Friday RCD Espanyol on the occasion of the eleventh day of LaLiga EA Sports. García Pimienta’s team wants to make up for the painful defeat suffered last Sunday against Barcelona (5-1) and seeks to win and convince in Cornellà in what will be a night of multiple reunions, since in the Perica squad there are two players who They were active in the ranks of Sevilla and in the Nervionense there are also two players with a blue and white past.

On the Sevilla side, Adrià Pedrosa and Alvaro Fernandez They share a parakeet past. The first of those mentioned was trained in the lower categories of Espanyol until he ended up finding a place in the first team with which he played. 120 official matches before arriving after finishing his contract at Sevilla. The goalkeeper, for his part, spent just one season on loan at Espanyol and He only played twelve duels like a parakeet, one of them being precisely the last Espanyol – Sevilla played to date in which Julen Lopetegui’s Sevilla won in Cornellà by 2-3.

In Manolo González’s team, Espanyol coach, there are two players with a Sevilla past. Captain of the Catalan team’s squad is Sergi Gomezwho came to play 85 games with the Nervionense team before leaving in the summer of 2021 for Espantol, having participated in the Europa League won in Cologne by Sevilla. A more anecdotal time at Sevilla had Alejo Veliz. The Argentine striker arrived on loan last January to Quique Sánchez Flores’ squad for the final stretch of the season and did not have opportunities to play. He barely had half an hour of play divided into six different matches. However, now with Espanyol he has participated in all the matches that have been played and has scored a goal.