Deportivo la Coruña v Espanyol
By: Armando | November 10th, 2008
Picture an historic club in Spain, with royal patronage for what its worth, and focus on their talismanic striker, a club legend named Raul who despite his advancing age is still a leader on the pitch as well as off it. He spends his entire career at the club after debuting as a raw rookie and leads the club to honors and trophies. The skills begin to deteriorate and the goal scoring starts to ebb, consistency being one of the first to go, and the whispers come first amongst his teammates and then in the press who are slow to judge as the local papers have a great deal of history with Raul. He becomes more introspective with his teammates and divisions arise in the locker room. Vocal challenges start appearing, by unnamed sources in the back-room staff as they are usually referred to in the papers, and transfer requests by influential players start turning up. Transfers into the club start to become more difficult as well; jaws wagging that their striker has far too much influence in the silly season. The sports dailies have pretty much played this scenario out at Real Madrid with Raul Gonzalez, but is the same scenario occurring at RCD Espanyol?
How do you tell Tamudo that his time might be approaching? He has a dismal scoring record this year 2 goals in 10 games with 2 missed penalties recently. With a scoring rate on average of 1 goal every 129 minutes the club itself is reeling, and only Valladolid, Huelva and Osasuna are worse on that scale. This week against Depor, a club with very similar outlook and very similar deficiencies, I expected a goalless draw with both clubs eking out a point but never imagined that the Andres Guardado would find his goal scoring form in Spain against us. Great goal I might add from a difficult angle and left footed wingers are cool to watch when they score. Still, itÅ› time to start thinking as I said a few weeks ago about investing in a creative midfielder to support and learn from Ivan de la Peña and might I add finding someone to spell both Luis Garcia and Tamudo up front? Someone who could take penalties, too. Please? And make it snappy because weÅ•e falling down the table again…
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