1-2: Alavés lose the first friendly against Huesca

R. O. Pancorbo
Gasteiz
Journalist

He Alaves He still has a lot of work ahead of him, both in the composition of the squad and in terms of sports. Before him Huesca, Paul
Machin He distributed minutes among his pupils in a first friendly in which he lined up a different eleven in each part and in which he mixed the heavyweights of the team with youngsters from the subsidiary. It is surprising that in this first stake he was left out of the call Manu
Garcia. The club has not reported that the captain suffers at this time any physical problem.

Babazorro players still need a lot of training, time and talks to assimilate the 1-3-5-2 that the Soriano wants to implement. Especially in the second half, he hardly created play in the center of the field and was overcome in some phases by a Huesca that, in his second preparation game of this preseason, he achieved in Ibaia his first victory (1-2).

Both teams played the typical preparation match, with few occasions and many inaccuracies. The Aragonese squad, more settled, touched the ball better against a team from Gasteiz that responded with solidity in defense and tried to reach the area with quick incursions.

The goals soon came. In minute 4, just after starting, Joselu caught a good center from the left in the area and his chopped head beat Jovanovic. It did not take long for the Huesca team to respond and, on the 8th, Okazaki established the 1-1 after an assist of Rafa
Mir in a play that was born with a band opening of Juan
Charles.

Paul
MachinTrue to his ideology, he arranged his usual 1-3-5-2 in his first friendly with the Albiazul team. With Pacheco in goal, Rodrigo
He and imposed his hierarchy by high on the axis of a rear in which he was flanked by Ximo
Navarrese and Ruben
Duarte, two very mobile centrals. In the bands, like lanes, Edgar
Mendez struck on the right and Javi
Lopez, which left some good details, on the left.

In the center of the field, Pere
Pons He already had his first minutes, this time accompanied by Sergi
Gonzalez, in principle signed for the subsidiary, and Javi
Muñoz, which in January was transferred to Tenerife.

In attack, Joselu showed that he maintains his sense of accomplishment and was accompanied by the young Borja
Sainz, called to be important in this course if you are able to take a step forward.

Well Pacheco

The meta slime fox prevented the Huesca take the lead on the scoreboard. At minute 12, this time it was Okazaki the one who attended Rafa
Mir, but the forward did not hit the goalkeeper babazorro. On the 25th, Borja
Sainz he could score on another very clear occasion. In minute 43, the Alava goalkeeper cleared a free-kick from the front again by Rafa
Mir.

The Murcian forward was undoubtedly the most incisive attacker on the pitch of Ibaia. In the second half, Paul
Machin changed his eleven completely at halftime, a circumstance that took advantage of the Huesca to master more clearly. In minute 54, the tip of the Huesca team shot high too heeled after sneaking through the right.

In 62, he was right again and, after a foul, he took advantage of a good service from the newly incorporated Penaloza to beat Aritz
Castro, who replaced at halftime Fernando
Pacheco. With Antonio
Sivera still on vacation after playing the promotion playoffs to First
Division with the Almeria, the young man from Gasteiz from the subsidiary had minutes.

Along with him, in the second half the Laguardia was the reference in the rear flanked by Tachi and Adrian
Diéguez on the axis of three centrals, with Martin on the right and Luis
Rioja on the left as lanes. In the center of the field, Thomas
Pineapple played alongside two youngsters from the subsidiary –Abdallahi, which has already debuted in First
Division, and Pepe
White-. Luke
Perez and John
Guidetti they formed the offensive duo.

John guidetti

After the 1-2, the Alaves, but without aim. Pepe
White fired from outside the area against the stick and John
Guidetti, very active, could not take advantage of a clear opportunity before Jovanovic, which reacted with many reflexes. The Swede, who has the exit door open waiting for you Deyverson is incorporated, it was understood very well in some actions with Luke
Perez.

The youth of the subsidiary did not waste the opportunity to vindicate themselves before Paul
Machin. The goal Aritz
Castro he was the protagonist in the final stretch. In 77, he responded with a good stop to a shot from the Colombian Penaloza, which ended up crashing into the crossbar.