Edgar Badia couldn’t have been more sincere, after 13 games at the bottom of the field, with an outstanding and undefeated performance. “I’m screwed,” the Elche goalkeeper said into the DAZN microphones seconds after LaLiga graphics recognized him as the best player in the game despite his team’s defeat.

«We are ruined, I personally am. There is nothing to admire. We didn’t win and I don’t care if we stop. If we fit in this much, I’ll be doing something wrong,” said the Catalan goalkeeper, who is the goalkeeper with the most stops in a First Division competition. Despite this, his team is the top scorer, scoring 29 goals in 13 matches.

«Now I’m down, but tomorrow we’ll have to get up, train and try to beat Girona.. I believe this team will rise even higher when they win a match.” He said, “The time-out will be good for us because we can’t be worse. “We have 24 games left to try to save ourselves.”

Edgar Badia was very clear after a performance where he had to work from the first minute.. At 25 seconds, Valladolid striker put up a terrific footing against Plata, who was standing alone in front of his goal. It wasn’t the only moment of defensive fragility the goalkeeper had to resolve. Before 1-0, Badia saved Óscar Plano. On Javi Sánchez’s goal, he could do little more than helplessness in the face of his teammates’ weakness.

Despite the defeat, Josan’s goal half an hour after the end of the match kept Elche alive in the match, who would have signed his sentence long ago had it not been for Edgar Badia. Catalan defeated Sergio León 2-0 before the timeout and avoided it with three other interceptions between 53 and 60 minutes.. Already in the 89th minute he suffered the last act of defensive passivity in a free kick taken by Monchu, which kept franjiverdes out of work. Weissmann got off the heel and managed to clear a corner.

Neither a dozen saves nor the game’s MVP consoled Edgar Badia, who is in his fifth season at Elche and came from Reus in mid-2018/19. His good work has kept him in the orbit of the national team and earning general praise from the football world, despite his team’s disastrous tournament.