Deportivo is experiencing its hardest moment of the season. After an immaculate first round, the team has fallen and has only one victory in the last seven games. Four defeats along the way, with the embarrassment of Badajoz as the final touch. A terrible dynamic that awakens the worst ghosts. Ago understandable, especially for what the Coruña fans have behind them in recent years. The solution to the problem is in the hands of the players and Borja Jiménez, the same ones who returned the pride and enthusiasm a little over two months ago. The coach must get the system right, to raise spirits, the chosen players, the changes and improve the strategy. Group management, come on. But it is also time for the players. For them to take a step forward and assimilate once and for all that playing at Riazor is a blessing, not a burden. That the shield they carry is an added value, not a hundred kilo backpack. They are the best template. That this is not a time for doubts, it is time to demonstrate to each and every one of the rivals from the first minute the conviction that the three points have an owner: Deportivo.
It is true that the team has thrown away in a month and a half all the good work and the advantage they had as an outstanding leader. Also that Racing de Santander has not trembled and has put land in between. But it is also true that this is not over. That fears disappear by winning, winning and winning. If you can catch Racing, fantastic. If not, it will give to keep the second place and reach the playoff with confidence and arguments. In the environment there is a certain panic to risk it in Riazor when looking in the rearview mirror and remembering the Centenariazo, the disastrous afternoon of Extremadura, what happened to Badajoz last year or the relegation against Valencia. But that same rear-view mirror has magical nights in the Champions League on the sidelines, the last three promotions against Huesca, Jaén and Murcia, all of them sealed in A Coruña. He has a team that until recently went a full year without losing in his stadium with rolling numbers. If there is a playoff, it will be played at home and that has to be an unstoppable force of 20,000 throats, which when ‘D-Day’ comes will be 30,000. Would it be better to play it a thousand kilometers away, on a narrow field far from the carpet of the A Coruña stadium? In Talavera, Barreiro or artificial grass? In regular league or playoff Riazor is the best solution to return to Second, never the problem.