Football Season Guide

The 2018/19 season was a major success for Espanyol as they managed to qualify for the Europa League on the final day, their first European qualification in over a decade. Rubi, the coach who steered Espanyol into Europe, then left during the summer, so that was a major blow and it’ll make it difficult for the club to repeat the feat of last season. David Gallego, a man who knows the club so well and who has been caretaker in the past with four wins from five, has come in and he is viewed as a fairly safe pair of hands. The goal for Espanyol was to keep the squad largely the same. They lost starting centre-back Mario Hermoso and starting right-back Roberto Rosales, which is a blow, but otherwise there haven’t been any departures that look too detrimental. They’ve quietly added some good players too, in addition to the very talented January signing from China Wu Lei. With a strong squad and with a very good youth academy to fall back on, Espanyol are in a good situation. It’d have been good if they could have kept their coach, but they should still be competitive. A strength for Espanyol is in attack, where they have the ability to score goals from few chances. A weakness is the fact that they can be very hot or cold. Even last season on their way to European qualification, they had runs of excellent form and then runs of terrible form.