by Real Zaragoza, after beating Real Sporting de Gijón that continues with its bad streak, improves its statistics at home and is once again excited about the possibility of getting closer to the positions that give the right to play in the Promotion Promotion of which it is four points away after the victory over the Asturian team; who are left out of those positions after their defeat.
The Aragonese team, whose Achilles heel is his performance at the La Romareda stadium where they had only won five games out of the twelve they had played until this day, they are trying to right the course in their stadium because they are aware that if they want to have a chance to fight for promotion, they involve not letting points slip away at home.
The victory against the Asturian team means chaining two consecutive victories in their stadium, since In the previous one they beat Andorra and having added seven points out of a possible nine in the last three rounds after the draw in Alcorcón last round.
On the contrary, The whole of the Principality continues without leaving the nebula in which it seems to be immersed since it has only achieved one victory in the last eight games and is outside the promotion promotion zone, wasting an opportunity to achieve a victory with which it would have equaled the points of Eibar and Racing de Ferrol, second and third, respectively.
The strong pressure that both teams exerted at the beginning of the game from the ball’s release into the opposing area prevented either team from progressing comfortably and the entire game takes place in the center of the field with hardly any approaches to the areas.
In fact, there were only some dangerous plays in the first ten minutes, a low shot from Haissem Hassan that went wide and a cross from Víctor Mollejo that was poisoned and that went close to the crossbar.
From then on, the skilled team had more of the ball but was unable to filter balls to their forwards and their play was limited to moving the ball but without passing options to the advantage of their forwards, while The Gijon team, when they recovered the ball, were not able to reach the area either.either in a sporadic counterattack or dominating the ball.
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However, when everything seemed predictable, a Zaragoza ball cut in its own half, in the 38th minute, generated a counterattack that ended on the left wing where Mollejo’s center. Carlos Izquierdoz deflected it towards his goal thus opening the scoring for his rival.
After the break The Asturian team took control of the game and pushed Real Zaragoza towards their area creating a lot of problems for them because he was unable to get hold of the ball and go on the counterattack even though Raul Guti -reappeared and then injured again- could have extended the score with a shot against the post in the 50th minute on a counterattack.
Sporting gave a feeling of danger and José Angel Valdés ‘Cote’ confirmed it in the 63rd minute with a shot from outside the area that lightly touched the local goalkeeper Edgar Badía so that it crashed into the crossbar.
The Zaragoza team felt overwhelmed and were going through their worst moments but an error in the release of the ball by Christian Rivera in the 66th minute led to a steal of the ball by Maikel Mesa on the edge of the area to end up shooting goalkeeper Rubén Yáñez and make the score 2-0.
And since misfortunes do not come alone, four minutes later the sportinguista goalkeeper slipped when receiving a header, which was used to steal the ball from him by Francho Serrano and score the third for the Blanquilo team that decided the fight.
