The parakeet pulled his hair out for the tie in the 96th minute of Barcelonain the derby, which with the passing of days was assimilated as a good point. She was happy for him 1-1 last Sunday against the second in LaLiga and one of the fittest teams in Europe, the Seville, although he still has the resentment of those sterile final minutes in numerical superiority. Ties, and that’s great, but… And so the Spanishin this february that pointed to terrible and that, at the expense of what happens this Sunday against Villarrealis finally being more nice –at least, in sensations– than the affordable January calendar, between two waters. In a state of ‘opsimism‘.
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*Data updated as of February 25, 2022
We allow ourselves the license to coin this acronym as the result of the strange mixture of the optimism produced by good results against almighty rivals –recently Sevilla and Betis, before Real Madrid or Real Sociedad– and the pessimism if instead of the tree the forest is observed, with a practically stopped classification since the beginning of the calendar year, without a single victory in 2022with a Espanyol that has been stealthily losing positions (from the ninth on New Year’s Eve to the fourteenth today), which has hopelessly removed from Europe and that, however, nowhere near relegation simply because those below add up to the same or less than the parakeets themselves.
‘Opsimism’ is that with one point out of 12 possible sensed the advent of an internecine fightnot between supporters and detractors, but directly the result of the division between those who fired at the field of play, the bench, the sports management, the general management and the presidency, and that two days later, with three points out of 18, the photograph of the moment shows a tier in communion with the teamready to tackle the La Cerámica Stadium en masse – with visitor tickets sold out – this Sunday when the Blue and Whites’ baggage away from home this season includes a single win in 12 starts.
humility and ambitionthe motto of the team (and of the club) for this season, also matches that ‘opsimism’ that moves between the accurate reminder of “where we come from” –that is to say, a Espanyol that just nine months ago wanted them in the Second Division and is now capable of standing up to the greats– and the undeniable status of a historic clubpresent in the First Division in 86 of its 91 seasons and seventh with the most points in the highest category.
It is the ‘opsimism’ of that squad that visits Villarreal with that duality of the ‘matagigantes’ that the one that leaves the RCDE Stadium fades. And from that entity that, sanitized like few times (or never) in its 121 years of existence, hints at a project with a workforce whose market value will reach 300 million euros. But for now he lives with a certain conformism in the same common place almost always. For better (which is not little) and for worse.
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