Rossi, Szetela: YA gameday in Spain 09/16 (Rs)

[Clint Eastwood]

Danny Szetela and Racing Santander take on Levante today from Estadio El Sardinero. The game should start at 11:00 ET, so we'll know soon if Danny made the matchday squad.

Here's the Soccernet preview of the match:

http://soccernet-akamai.espn.go.com/preview?id=226544&cc=5901
http://www.skysports.com/football/match_facts/0,19762,11065_2874480,00.html

"Santander's record signing, Congolese striker Mohamed Tchite, who was signed from Anderlecht, is expected to start on Sunday.

He is seen as the replacement for last season's top scorer Nikola Zigic, who has now joined Valencia.

Also, American midfielder Danny Szetela has yet to feature and Polish forward Euzebiusz Smolarek has only played a few minutes."

Guisseppe Rossi and Villareal travel to Mallorca (I wish I was too) on Sunday. Please no Rossi "Is he American?" arguments in this forum. This isn't the place.
Here's the Soccernt preview of that one.
http://soccernet-akamai.espn.go.com/preview?id=226664&cc=5901
http://www.skysports.com/football/match_facts/0,19762,11065_2874482,00.html

You'd have to expect Rossi to play in that one.

Despite their crushing defeat to Real, Villarreal are still eighth in the table courtesy of their impressive 3-0 win over Valencia on the opening weekend.

The Real loss was a blow for the east coast side, but the players are confident they can bounce back quickly.

``(The defeat) was a big accident,'' insisted winger Cani. ``The squad is very good and I think we are going to get past this without problems.''

[prvev]

"El entrenador racinguista Marcelino García Toral ha facilitado la lista de convocados para el partido ante el Levante al término del entrenamiento realizado en las Instalaciones de La Albericia. El técnico verdiblanco ha citado a los siguientes 18 futbolistas: Toño, Coltorti, Pinillos, Samuel, Sergio Sánchez, Garay, Marcano, Luis Fernández, Duscher, Jordi F., Colsa, Jorge López, Ayoze, Serrano, Bolado, Munitis, Smolarek y Tchite. "

http://www.realracingclub.es/actualidad/noticias_detalle.aspx?tid=140

So Szetela won't be making his debut today.

[golazo68]

"El entrenador racinguista Marcelino García Toral ha facilitado la lista de convocados para el partido ante el Levante al término del entrenamiento realizado en las Instalaciones de La Albericia. El técnico verdiblanco ha citado a los siguientes 18 futbolistas: Toño, Coltorti, Pinillos, Samuel, Sergio Sánchez, Garay, Marcano, Luis Fernández, Duscher, Jordi F., Colsa, Jorge López, Ayoze, Serrano, Bolado, Munitis, Smolarek y Tchite. "

http://www.realracingclub.es/actualidad/noticias_detalle.aspx?tid=140

So Szetela won't be making his debut today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYZdrBOZ_EQ

Danny's hard tackling style should fit right in.

BTW- Tchite also played w/Gooch at Liege.

[Clint Eastwood]

"El entrenador racinguista Marcelino García Toral ha facilitado la lista de convocados para el partido ante el Levante al término del entrenamiento realizado en las Instalaciones de La Albericia. El técnico verdiblanco ha citado a los siguientes 18 futbolistas: Toño, Coltorti, Pinillos, Samuel, Sergio Sánchez, Garay, Marcano, Luis Fernández, Duscher, Jordi F., Colsa, Jorge López, Ayoze, Serrano, Bolado, Munitis, Smolarek y Tchite. "

http://www.realracingclub.es/actualidad/noticias_detalle.aspx?tid=140

So Szetela won't be making his debut today.

You are correct. Here are the starting lineups for the 2 squads.

http://soccernet-akamai.espn.go.com/match?id=226544&cc=5901

What I don't understand is ESPN only lists 6 subs for Racing. Surely they have 7.

[Clint Eastwood]

Rossi, however, HAS started the match for Villarreal at Mallorca.
Here's Villarreal's lineup.


Villarreal
(G) Sebastian Viera 1
(D) Joan Capdevila 5
(D) Pascal Cygan 12
(D) Fabricio Fuentes 20
(D) Javi Rodriguez Venta 17
(M) Santi Cazorla 8
(M) Josico 6
(M) Robert Pires 7
(M) Marcos Senna 19
(F) Guillermo Franco 9
(F) Giuseppe Rossi 22
Substitutes
(S) Ruben Cani 10
(S) Matías Fernández 14
(S) Diego Godin 4
(S) José Miguel González Rey 3
(S) Bruno 21
(S) Diego Lopez 13
(S) Kahveci Nihat 15

[Clint Eastwood]

Racing Santander have just scored versus Levante, and lead 1-0 after 28 minutes. The goal was by Pedro Munitis. You might remember Pedro from his time at Deportivo La Caruna.

[gosh1976]

"When you have new players who don't know the Spanish league, their colleagues, the language, the city or the customs, they need a lengthy period of adaptation."

Seems like a sensible quote from the Racing coach and hopefully Danny will adapt quickly. Guess it depends on the coaches idea of a lengthy period and how well Szetela does in training and how long it takes him to settle in. Hopefully it's a matter of weeks and not months.

[Clint Eastwood]

The Villarreal-Mallorca match is 0-0 at the half. Rossi has 2 shots, with one of them on goal.

[Clint Eastwood]

Rossi was subbed off for the Turk Nihat around minute 71. Nihat promptly scored.

Villarreal 1-0 Minute 86