The fifth season of Manolo Preciado front bench of the Molinón has undoubtedly been the most contested and most wear has occurred in the Cantabrian. The bad start to the league and his confrontation with Mourinho over the post-media campaign for much of the press, ruined the image of a technician whose work had already been called into question last season when the point is a point to secure a flying Gijón permanence that did not have to be complicated. The season started with the extension of the coaching staff with the arrival of Joseph Alcácer, a Preciado's confidant and had already worked for him informally during the past seasons. His arrival allowed technicians to cover a wider field of work, but the press and much of the crowd will strive to define the Valencian as a coach who arrived to fill the gap in price in the tactical aspect. Surely in the disastrous first round of the team were very influential games against Athletic and Zaragoza, where both teams equaled an adverse outcome from a two goal difference, with the aggravation that the hands that were playing with ten men. Rarely in these five years has had as much responsibility Preciado in a negative as it was in La Romareda. I am convinced that these results affected psychologically to a team that, as the season progressed and the wins were not coming, contesting every game as a true final. But every time it repeated the same result. Defeat. In the best case, a tie.
The team limped into the operations center, the Atletico midfield was a year without a player who knew moving the ball. With Rivera and Eguren playing together we were doomed to disaster. Sporting became a brain-computer with a ball out of horizontal, slow and predictable. If the opponents were put forward, gave away the ball to the red and whites and they were unable to find a hole. Sporting only remained engaged in life for something that has always characterized this team, soul. The same as Atletico pushed players not lose faith until the final whistle, the same that brought Castro to get Diego and El Sardinero Riazor two goals in 90 who accounted for two ties that time were a lesser evil, but allowed the team does not drop off.
The most complicated moment came after the 1-2 defeat against Malaga in a match which Atletico showed a bleak picture. Tier responsibilities requested by the end of 90 minutes and although the technic had been ratified in public with the famous''before I go Preciado''Manuel Vega-Arango just a week earlier, on Monday after defeat with Malaga's 'Summit Somió' decided dispense with the Spaniard. Only the refusal of Marcelino Garcia Toral, who had demanded five signings and fear of failure, the Gijon is very easy to prove in the good times, "slowed the removal of Preciado as coach of Sporting. The Spaniard was a week later, and just be played continuity in his homeland before his Racing. And the solution to all our problems have a name and surname, Nacho Cases. Gijon 23 years had been very close to leaving the subsidiary after the end of last season, only trust God that Emilio had placed in him kept him in Gijón. His debut in Santander was the lighthouse that we guided on the path to permanency. Preciado forgot his famous and moved to 1-4-1-4-1 1-4-2-3-1, a scheme that had already been used in December to Espanyol and Levante, but then Sergio Alvarez played the role of Nacho Cases. The arrival in January André Castro allowed more choice, as could be seen ahead Eguren defense while Rivera and André himself with playing on the double pivot with an untouchable Nacho Cases. Once the team left the hot zone of the classification, Preciado recovered 1-4-2-3-1, with Rivera and Cases together in the middle and more advanced André Castro. Thus was conceived the magnificent second round to us was to dominate the best Barcelona for 45 minutes, to tie at the Mestalla and give a recital of football at El Madrigal to finish tied with nine players on the discount. And to make history in an unforgettable evening at the Santiago Bernabeu. A second round in which as Gerardo Ruiz had advanced earlier in the season, Atletico crushed the opponents physically. The pending issue of the physical work was to finish the league in best conditions, you may sacrifice the good first lap, which always made us suffer in the past two months, to reach the final stretch of league players with more whole.
I am convinced that if Sporting has not returned to Second in these three years is because it has not entered into this maelstrom resultadista where coaches come and go at little to no results with it. In Gijón has been confidence in Manolo Preciado to extremes unimaginable in any other city in Spain, in his first season with the team in second extended its contract after five consecutive defeats in the first season after promotion no one doubted the technical although the absence of three days for finalziar League took three wins for salvation, and this season even though critical voices were becoming more numerous coach kept his job. Despite the criticisms, Preciado account with the utmost respect for The Molinón, a crowd that arrived to fill Dizziness banner when the policy all Gijon embarrassed to management that could have been the end of the coach.
The aim was to follow in First, and Price has accomplished the objective. In the same way that met the objectives of the previous four seasons. Clearly, price is not the best coach in the world (anyone knows?), His five seasons at Gijón are sufficient for their shortcomings are outdoors. We all know that his delay in moving the bench and do the tedious habit of rotations when a midweek game cost us a bunch points. However, the biggest drag on the Sporting do not think it even less responsibility of the coach. The Manolo he has questioned his ability to train strategy pieces, just as we have a small team in height and until the arrival of Cases also had a good pitcher that we guarantee results in attack. It has also questioned the technician working with the defense, when the progression defensive team in the last three years has been dizzying. 79 goals conceded in the first season after promotion, we have moved to the 51 of last year and 42 of these, which has become the third-fewest goals in team. But also the Sporting has learned to compete. He's not the same team that played the game a toss, not content with a 2-2 draw against Valencia in the 90th minute after going the whole game against the current. The team understood the value of a tie, a result that once saw only two seasons ago and this was repeated fourteen times. But without doubt the greatest obstacle that has prevented this team fly higher is the lack of scoring. Barral, with five goals this year, has nine the past two seasons. Sangoy only scored two goals and Bilic did not even premiered. Against this background the Sporting proved to be the least second team scorer in the league.
If something Preciado may criticize that it has not been able to impose his personality to the excesses of a policy without direction. Manolo is not known for being a crybaby technical justify everything that is, by contrast, is a technician who carries out the circumstances that you are and work with it without putting any blame. And that should be great as a coach. Two seasons ago had to assert itself and stop the sale of Michel mid-season without a replacement. This year should do the same when the club accepted the offer of 2.7 million from Málaga by José Ángel. The''brain dead''prevented the sale, which would have occurred to put Sporting in big trouble with the injury of Canella in the second round. Some say it's lack of ambition, character and personality, himself a nonconformist coach, other than the work of managing Precious few resources they have available has been excellent. Either way, the work of Manolo Preciado, Sporting must be beyond doubt, not criticism. After all, are the sports results that define the work of a technician, and the reality is that the second team with the lowest budget category finished the season tenth in the standings, a success , especially if we consider the early stages of competition. A tenth place that leaves no to be anecdotal, because in a competition where twelve teams are so equal in the end are little details that will rise to a position in the table. Who back in the month of January was predicted to remain a utopia because we had to make a second round of Champions is just plain wrong. Prices will continue at least another season in a Sporting continuing in the elite. And that's what matters.
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