La Liga preview 2018/19 - Struggle for Survival

With La Liga’s August 17 kickoff quickly approaching, we’ve been taking a look at each of the teams that will take part in the 2018-19 season. We began last week with a look at the league’s three newcomers. In today’s installment we examine the state of affairs at four clubs who, through a bit of luck and well-timed competence, managed to grind through the 2017-18 season with their La Liga lives intact – and they’ll likely need to do it again:

Established: 1900

Stadium (Capacity): Estadi Cornellà-El Prat (40,500)

Coach: Joan Francesc Ferrer Sicilia (“Rubi”)

Last season in La Liga: Espanyol managed a seemingly respectable eleventh-place finish in 2017-18, on 51 points.