4 October. Press room. Eldense lost its third match in a row. Valladolid won by minimal margin in Nuevo Pepico Amat and noise around equipmentThe planned (and publicly announced) departure of the coach, the largest shareholder, obscures the good things Deportivo has done.

Classification doesn’t help either. Blaugranas team is in 19th place. They are down with 8 points out of a possible 27. Everyone has doubts. Everyone except the coach. Fernando Estévez tackles painful questions at the highest level temperance possible. The insistence on bad dynamics, the lack of solutions, the weakness of defense… do not prevent him from speaking calmly, measuredly. “There are those who like to do autopsies A bad result, not for me,” the Granada coach said three times on that difficult night for himself, his team and the idea of ​​​​interpreting the game.

After just one month, Eldense’s face has changed so much that it is three times closer to the promotion zone for promotion to Primera than the relegation spots to Primera RFEF. For Barcelona coach three consecutive victories They don’t change anything. His roadmap is unquestionable: to reach 50 points and guarantee Deportivo’s continuity in professional football.

Deportivo coach only wants to hear about “reaching 50 points” which will give him permanence

With the possible sale of the club pulsating in a low profile, all sportsmanship is now focused on what his team is experiencing in its first year in League Two after six decades away from the national second tier. Changes So far he has strengthened Eldense, which Estévez introduced in the 4-4-2, which is stronger defensively and more effective off the ball than in control of it: a comfortable eleventh place. They are just three points behind Espanyol, which limits promotion, and 9 points behind Huesca, which indicates the maximum risk zone where the Alicante team is located at the end of the ninth round of the championship.

Sitting Vallejo was definitely the hardest decision and the one that cost Estévez the most. The rest, small variations of a model that the Andalusian coach believes in and has proven to be effective, because no one feels left out, puts everyone in the spotlight in the end, he is not a philosophy and phobia coach.

explosion Elegantintermittency JuantoThe relocation of sides, the distribution of midfielders, the efficient distribution of minutes to optimize performance, these are all decisions taken by the Deportivo coach together with his assistants, and for over a year, it has grown from a very low level.

than hand Added 14 of the last 18 pointsThey are just two short of current leaders Leganés, who reached 16 in the same segment. However, Deportivo’s income is more than that of Valladolid and Eibar, who added 12 in this section; than Sporting and Racing de Ferrol, who reached 11; and Espanyol, which closed the promotion zone with 5 points. Change the face, the target, definitely not.