a feeling of helplessness

The main feeling that the Deportivo match left me with on this occasion was helplessness. It seems that the team does not give more.

The clash against Alcorcón had two very different parts. In the first team, it was difficult to get into the action, get into the scene according to the importance of the event, very transcendental. Based on errors in passes and other aspects of the game, for about thirty minutes it seemed that he had a hard time catching up with Alcorcón, that he even gave the feeling of forgiveness, and that the match did not have the importance it really had, which was a bad sign, which was confirmed later.

Villares’s game of not being able to find the shooter makes us think that if all you suggest is depth from the wing for a death pass, that last free ball sent into a small space, and when you have it, don’t Don’t specify.. .. you risk the footballer stopping to believe in that proposal.

With this scenario, the coach had to adapt half-time changes to improve the first half in which Deportivo seemed inferior to Alcorcón. And he succeeded, as the team came out with more forward pressure, with Isi Gómez taller. Deportivo stepped up in the field higher in the opponent’s half and gradually inclined to dominate in the opposite field (which is not the same as maintaining possession in their own half, where the effect is much less visible), giving no option until Alcorcón passed, subduing the opponent and accumulating shots like those of Lucas and Soriano, or plays like that of Svensson (who finished high, wide and badly after dribbling).

The last show we experienced was a reflection of the Riazor game. Lucas is progressing and prefers to shoot from a high angle, despite the fact that Villares was only in a good position in front of the goal. And there Deportivo disappeared. With four goal attempts, two of them in the second half, and that without too much detail.

With this result and these feelings, the options to get a direct promotion place are clouded, so from now on Deportivo will have to focus on trying to stay as much as possible, with an eye on the promotion phase to the second division where being second is not the same what fourth.