RCD Espanyol de Barcelona

They are three wins, five draws at home this season.

Two wins on the spin for them, beating Espanyol 2-1.

And then 3-0-0 in the first qualifying round of the Copa del Rey.

Nice.

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Atlético, Atlético de Madrid Win at Alaves, win at Espanyol, win at Levante.

Five away wins already this season.

Atleti won six games away from home in La Liga all of last year.

No disrespect to Levante, but he's going to get a lot of minutes in La Liga because we have games like this.

Johnny Cardoso and Koke is what I meant to say.

Johnny and Koke are injured right now and they won't need rest anyway, but to have Yeoman against an opponent like Levante, like Espanyol, He was important in the second half today, even if the partnership with Barrios is still a little shaky because Yeoman's not a traditional holding midfielder.

But still, I like the 11.

I want to go down towards the bottom.

So, you know, Espanyol, their winger who played 38 games that season, do you know where they got him from? Blackburn, in the relegation zone in the championship.

And he started week in, week out, getting goal contributions, playing pretty well, if I remember correctly, when I checked.

Yeah, but at

So what I'm saying is I don't want to talk about Europe or anything like that.

I want to go down to the bottom ends of the division.

When you look at the teams in the Liga, like I'm saying with Tyree Stolen, he came from the bottom end of the English second tier and he's starting week in, week out, playing really, really well in the context of Espanyol.

I think when you look at the European teams, even if it is Palace, even if it is...

The interesting thing about that, the bit you've mentioned, is the Barcelona and Real Madrid game, which I have been to, that is down to political and it goes back to the Spanish Civil War.

And in no sense would, for instance, Barcelona against Espanyol, which is an interesting concept because people may or may not know why is a side in Barcelona called Espanyol, which I spank, They were a side created by Franco, in effect, to rival Barcelona, because Barcelona had come to signify an expression of the Catalan nation.

But that was never really a competition.

Although Espanyol's title is now spelt in Catalan and not Spanish, because it used to be ESBA NOL, yeah.

Just as an aside, when Gary arrived, Gary Lineker arrived in Barcelona and left his hotel... first time to go to training, he got into a cab and said football ground in as much Spanish as he knew at that point and ended up at the Espanol ground up at the top.

But a lot of these sort of things have become part of either political or religious expression.

But other than that, yeah, you know Jonathan David will be more of a reliable box presence than Julian, who, it must be said, has seen an uptick in form lately.

Has scored or assisted on Atleti's last three goals against Espanyol, Stuttgart, and Depor.

So he is the hot hand right now.

Alex Grimaldo, by the way, is up for La Liga Player of the Month for the month of October.

You're not the only one, mate.

And Graham Lloyds' great game last night going to Villarreal v Espanyol tonight.

Oh, sounds good.

He lives in Villarreal, Graham.

Bordeaux.

Espanyol.

He's got this.

Then he went to City and City couldn't afford him.

did not end up at Panathinaikos, unfortunately.

I can see why you would think that move would happen.

And the fact you got these in... order as well was quite impressive so yes he did start with Mallorca then moving to France to play for Bordeaux back to Spain for Espanyol two stints in the Premier League with Manchester City and Liverpool before moving to Olympiacos and then after Olympiacos he went to Galatasaray in Turkey back to the UK to play for Bordeaux Go on I was going to say back to the UK to play for Watford, then went to Udinese and then to Slovenia where he, again, he's still managing now.

So he played for Zavrich.

But the big upsets were.

Perhaps in the other competitions, obviously for me as a big fan of the Copa del Rey, Sestão beating Espanyol was absolutely shocking and I loved looking at that Sunday League style pitch.

And then also, I think Fleetwood Town knocked out Arsenal in the League Cup.

But yeah, still a lot of upsets, lots of interesting things to talk about.