Elche League matches are very similar to each other. So much so that the franciverde supporter may have a vague memory if he were against Betis or Villarreal that day when Roco made a counterattack while trying to avoid a throw-in. Probably in a few months, Bigas will have doubts as to whether a ridiculous defeat was the beginning of the end of the day for Sevilla or Cádiz.
During his time as a football player, Alfredo di Stéfano coined one of the following words in the imagination of football for posterity: “We played like never before and lost as always.” It was sung by someone who had won a lot to be the author of the phrase in question, although there were those marked by a defeat over a handful of victories. Against Sevilla, Elche benefited from losing the second part of the famous line, as always. The match was a carbon copy of the previous 18 of the first round, which will be sunk into oblivion when this campaign is over.. If 1950 “Maracanazo” was taboo in Brazil, it will be the centennial season in Elche.
Butterfly Effect
A butterfly fluttering in Brazil can cause a tornado in Texas. A late mark-up by Palacios triggered En-Nesyri’s header (double yesterday, first league goal this season). Bigas’ defeat brings two goals in five minutes.
Elche is so predictable that any action against her, whether due to her own fault, arbitration, or both at the same time, can be understood as the beginning of a phase in which the team will dissolve.. Chaos. All of this team’s matches have a time slot where they trash their chances of winning. There are days when these periods last five minutes, some ten, some half a game.
And so Elche turned defeat into a habit. The worst thing that can happen to an athlete. Because in life it is much easier to destroy than to build. And in sports, it’s more to lose than to win. Even a born winner like Di Stéfano realized in (a few) days that he had to lose. It’s painful to recover from a losing streak. Franjiverdes is no longer a bad series this season. Something worse. No matter how you play, he always loses. When Elche played well, they lost. When he plays bad too. 6 points in the Half League. The same things a team adds between a lucky Saturday and a regular Tuesday.
blockade
And what to do in the face of so many defeats? The mental/psychological part is the hardest part to train.. Because it does not depend on running more than the opponent. Also for shooting, passing or centering, for better or worse. It’s not like playing with three centre-backs and two wingers, or four fullbacks and two forwards.
Only they will emerge from the mental block that Elche players are currently experiencing. With professional help, yes. But even the best psychologist can’t win a game. Nor the support of a hobbyist who foresaw the future and was satisfied with the fact that the shield and ribbon were not tainted by indifference and negligence.
At this point, more than one will wonder how a radical change in performance is possible in a squad that is almost completely protected during the summer, apart from Mojica’s last-minute departure. The chill analysis yields a conclusion that is certainly on the minds of more than one person: The vast majority of players outperformed their odds last season.. This is where the professionals responsible for analyzing the players and structuring the roster fail in the summer. They must have seen this happen. And possibly painful and unpopular decisions had to be made, but this could have been beneficial for the Franjiverde project.
Machín’s microphone
In the current state of the sport, Pablo Machín can be blamed for little or nothing.. When he arrived, he found a dying team, and if he or Christian Bragarnik doesn’t get tired of it, he’ll be the official undertaker of a scam coin gamble that comes in heads. There was a team at Sánchez Pizjuán trying to put pressure and offer a physical match against an opponent who came in overtime from the cup tie. The fact is that 11 vs 11 Sevilla was already more and more superior. And after Bigas was kicked out, these two struggles before the break were enough to pay the penalty of the match.
Before the match, Machín made an outrageous gesture to the club’s press officer for not having a microphone to ask, something that has always happened before. If a ranking is made according to the communication departments of the clubs, they will not go to the bottom with 6 points due to their mistakes from Elche. Not less. They were in the second B and will continue. Workers are no less if players give their all on the field..
Source: Informacion
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