ANDhe Villarreal missed in Elche the opportunity to get closer to the European positions. In what is being a constant this season, the yellows once again made water away from home, where they have only been able to achieve a victory in the league as happened at Real Sociedad (1-3).
As happened last week at home and against the Atletico Madrid (2-2), the people from Castellón gave up points again for the second consecutive day and see how the reaction experienced days ago is slowing down and that allowed them to get fully into the fight for European places. Although the great tile handicap is being the games away from La Cerámica as its great reference assured, Gerard Moreno, at the end of the game: “It is true that outside we have to take the steps that remain If we want to be on top That is the reality. We have to turn the away games around, try to be more aggressive, have a more winning mentality, we have let another opportunity pass by”, he lamented.
We have to turn the away games around, try to be more aggressive, have a more winning mentality, we have missed another opportunity
The defeat in Elche lands breaks the streak that the yellow team was dragging and in which they accumulated five consecutive days without losing. The wins against Rayo Vallecano (2-0), Real Sociedad (1-3), Alavés (5-2), Levante (5-0) and the draw against the mattress box (2-2), had meant that the team Unai Emery added 13 of the last 15 points in play. A great income that had translated into an important comeback in the qualifying table and that experiences a hard braking with this new defeat. In the absence of the rest of the day being disputed, the people from Castellón are three points from sixth place and four from third, although that distance aims to be greater when the rest of their rivals play.
The defeat also It is the first that Villarreal experiences in the Martínez Valero in the First Division , since it is also for Unai Emery after twelve clashes with the team from Elche.
