Real Zaragoza aims to fight for the ‘playoff’

Real Zaragoza enlisted to fight for the Promotion of Promotion after defeating Eibar in a match in which they achieved their second home win of the season.

The Maño team, which is having a great deficit in its performance in its stadium, contrary to what happens when it plays outside of it, regained its solvency and beat a Basque team that had only lost two games away from Ipurúa, and one of the last 16 he had played.

The triumph of merit of the ‘blanquillo’ team means taking a step forward in their aspirations, since until now their pulses with the teams that were ahead in the classification had had more shadows than lights and with the victory they seem to want to send a warning to the rest of rivals on their intentions to look decisively towards the privileged zone of the qualifying table.

On the other hand, Gaizka Garitano’s team lost the opportunity to cut back on the leader, Almería, who on this day had tied, and also stayed out of direct promotion by going down to third place, although with the same points as Ponferradina, which is second.

The hand team had taken this confrontation as a test to calibrate their options to put their eyes on the top and it turned out positive because they barely made mistakes and that led them to choose the game in one of the opportunities they had.

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Both teams had many problems at the beginning to combine and get the ball played from behind because the pressure of one on the other prevented it from doing so and on many occasions the game was delayed for the goalkeeper so that he had to shoot directly from his area.

However, as the minutes passed, the intensity decreased and that allowed more combinations and the game began to reach both areas, but these actions were not finished by either team because either the shots were going out or not. was the decisive pass in the area.

Interestingly, the two clearest chances in the first 45 minutes came in two difficult shots. The visitor was had by the side Alvaro Tejero in a volley shot in the area after a long game change that impaled badly and after hitting the ground ended up touching the top of the crossbar of the Zaragoza goal.

The team’s hand went to another defender, the center-back Alejandro Francés, who threw himself to the ground after a free-kick, finished off as best he could from the grass and the ball ended up crashing on the outside of the right post of the armera goal.

The visiting coach, Gaizka Garitano, changed his tactical drawing after the break going to play with three behind but the team of Juan Ignacio Martínez “JIM” came out determined for the victory and, showing more energy and with better combinations, warned with a shot by Fran Gámez who saved Yoel in minute 59 and was the warning of the goal that came a minute later in a corner that the central Alejandro Francés finished off the net.

From there, Eibar turned to the ‘blanquilla’ goal putting all their offensive arsenal into play, with Llorente on the pitch, but Real Zaragoza defended well against the constant centers of their rival and took three vital points.