After two consecutive draws, of an undoubted irregularity, away from the squares that correspond to a block of its level, ElPozo claimed its potential in the best territory for such reaffirmation: the classic against Movistar Inter, decided at one minute and 35 seconds from the end by Darío (3-4).
An essential boost for ElPozo. For his career, for his confidence, for his determination, for his climb on the table and for his path to the Spanish Cup. The ticket for that exciting competition has not yet been sealed, but it is closer: he needs to score three points in the three pending postponed duels.
The team led by Argentine Diego Giustozzi, who wants more – and needs more – has not yet lost far from the Palacio de los Deportes de Murcia, while he redirects his gaze to the upper zone, winner of a hectic match with the decisive goal of Darío and with many relevant and indispensable qualities to beat Inter.
This Tuesday he showed offensive punch, ambition, a firm defense, resistance -when he endured two minutes behind with 2-3 on the scoreboard-, an enormous intensity, an accurate goalkeeper, Espíndola, who was also a wall when the Madrid team insisted more , and a tremendous capacity for reaction: at 3-3 of his rival two minutes and 20 seconds from the end he answered with the final 3-4.
All this, except the forcefulness in attack, also had the Madrid team, but there is no question more unanswerable in a sport like futsal than offensive efficiency. As much as I try without pause, no matter how ambitious he proposed on the track, he was not enough to achieve a draw that slows him down in qualifying.
Before the duel he was in numbers or a winter ‘champion’ average – it was up to him as soon as he finished the first round in front of the table if he won this game and the other pending postponements – now not. Now he has two teams that can add more than him (Levante and Jimbee Cartagena) and one that already has the same records that he could achieve: Palma, the current leader.
Neither Inter nor ElPozo dominate the classification, nor are they as visibly favorites as ever, but the classic, since this centennial Tuesday in the League, does not attend to the positions or the positive or negative streaks or the past, only at the moment, after 40 minutes that emerge on the track, unpredictable many times, almost always exciting and with an imposing intensity, from the first second and from the smallest detail of the duel.
Nothing is inconsequential in such an encounter. There are not many assumable mistakes, except for an immediate remedy, like the one that Espindola invented before Pola. An exception in a duel and a sport in which each failure almost always penalizes severely, even more so when there are soccer players with the qualities of both teams on the field.
It happened to Bruno Iacovino, who cleared head back perhaps a ball that was not his; to Jesús Herrero, overcome by the touch of his partner when he went out in search of that aerial ball, and ultimately to Inter, who received the 0-1 in the 7th minute. Among the disorder of the action, Alberto riveted alone, without no opposition.
In a minute, the game came to a boil. A few moments later, Pol Pachecho executed the 0-2 strategy; A few moments later, Fernando established the 1-2 volley after a corner. More effective ElPozo, his was the partial triumph at halftime, even with more distance by Marcel's 1-3 at the service of Cholo Salas (m. 18) in a quick counterattack, and his would be the final victory.
And that in the second period, unlike in the first half, it was Movistar Inter that struck, with an Eric Martel-Dani Saldise connection that pressed the electronic with still a world to play and compete (2-3, m 24) and that equaled the shock two minutes and 20 seconds from the conclusion through Borja (3-3).
ElPozo had even endured a numerical inferiority minutes before, when Espíndola maintained the resistance of 2-3 with four stops, as if to consider the tie as good at that moment. Nonconformist, the Murcian team reacted when it was least intuited, through Darío, with the winning goal and the claim.
DATA SHEET:
3 – Movistar Inter: Jesús Herrero, Eric Martel, Borja, Fernando, Cecilio -five starting-; Raya, Pola, Bruno Iacovino, Pito, Lucas Tripodi, Dani Saldise,
4 – ElPozo Murcia: Espíndola, Matteus, Marcel, Felipe Valerio, Cholo Salas -five starting-; Rafa Santos, Paradynski, Fernando, Darío, Alberto, Pol Pacheco,
Goals: 0-1, m. 7: Alberto. 0-2, m. 8: Pol Pacheco. 1-2, m. 8: Fernando. 1-3, m. 18: Marcel. 2-3, m. 24: Dani Saldise. 3-3, m. 38: Borja. 3-4, m. 39: Darius.
Referees: García Donas and Simón Benet. Felipe Valerio (m. 29) was sent off for a double yellow for ElPozo Murcia. They admonished the visitors Cholo Salas (m. 20) and Darío (m. 23).
Incidents: match corresponding to the seventeenth day of the League in the First Division, played in the Jorge Garbajosa pavilion in the Madrid town of Torrejón de Ardoz without an audience.