THE '9' MARKED BARÇA IN DECEMBER
Joselu warns Barça before the derby: "They were going to put five of us in the Camp Nou"
Published:11/05/2023 - 01:12h
Updated:11/05/2023 - 01:12h
José Luis Mato Sanmartín, 'Joselu', sent a 'dart' to FC Barcelona in the run-up to the Catalan derby. The '9' stuck out his chest for the draw achieved at Camp Nou in the first round, a game in which, according to the striker, Barça expected to thrash
The FC Barcelona and the Espanyol will contest next Sunday a new edition of the derbi Catalan in Cornellà-The Prat. With the group 'parakeet' in zone of descent and the Barça to a step of the title, the party can be decisive for both clubs, mainly for the venues. In this sense, José Luis Kill Sanmartín, 'Joselu', main offensive letter 'blanquiazul', did not doubt in heating the previous in his last interview with a 'dart' to the azulgrananas.
In a talk with 'DAZN', the forward of 33 years remembered how arrived both teams to the derbi of the first turn, party that finish equalised in the Spotify Camp Nou (1-1). It was the first crash after the stop mundialista and the ones of Xavi Hernández left to escape two points home of surprising form thanks to a penalti converted by the '9' in the minute 73, in the middle of the festival of cards of Mateu Lahoz.
For Joselu, the derbis are separate
"In the first turn also came very strong. The emotions and situations that lives this day are entirely different and they went us to put five in the Camp Nou and take out a very positive result", remembered the one of Stturgart. Joselu Arrived like the big bet of the 'parakeets' for the 2022/23 after the exit of Raúl of Tomás and, although his performance has been acceptable (14 goals and 2 assistances in 30 parties), the Espanyol is still in zone of descent to fault of five days.
In this sense, the forward trusts that the team will be able to take the derbi like an envión anímico to go out of the crisis. "They take him out a lot of advantage to the second, but at the end a derbi is a derbi and has seen of everything in these parties. One can be better and another worse, but here always equalise all the strengths", explained the ex player of Alavés and Newcastle.
The hopes of Joselu to be still in first
Joselu Descended the past season with the Alavés and expects to change his luck in the end of the 2022/23. "It is a penalty by the situation to which has carried us this, but think that this can be a stone on the way that we can hold between all, take it out and follow. I think that have sufficient strength to remove this stone and go it to achieve", commented the forward. The Espanyol keeps in the penultimate place of the classification with 31 points, to three of the salvation.