A climb with two top ports

UD Ibiza faces an exciting month of March, in which the challenge will be to seal the permanence in LaLiga SmartBank, a category in which the islanders are debutants, and in the process continue dreaming of the promotion play-off to LaLiga Santander. The team that Paco Jémez trains is in full ascent to the privilege zone, but in this third month of the year it will have to overcome two first-class ports if you want to be a real candidate. Visits to Ponferradina and Girona, The two rivals that the Balearic Islands have just ahead will determine the options of those from Jémez.

The sky-blue team, which is currently seventh, two points behind the promotion, will visit Ponferradina this coming Sunday (4:00 p.m.), opponent who is fifth and who has seven more points. In the first round the islanders fell to Ponferrada 0-1. Now Jémez’s team is much more competitive, although the truth is that they have fallen in their last two trips (Almería and Tenerife).

While, On March 19, Ibiza will meet Girona, which is now within a two-point shot and with whom he tied at one in the first part of the competition. It will be necessary to see in what conditions the islanders arrive at that confrontation against the Catalans, since tAfter the duel against Ponferradina, the faces will be seen, in Can Misses, with Leganés, a team that was made to be higher up in the classification and that wants little by little to settle in an area more in line with its pretensions (they start March fourteenth with 37 points). In Butarque, the Ibizan team achieved its first victory in the Second Division (1-2, on matchday three).

Ibiza will close the month receiving Real Sociedad B at Can Misses, a group that fights not to descend and that seems to have found the right path. Not in vain, the Donostiarra club subsidiary has won the last two games and has not yet said its last word. In the first round the islanders won 0-1 in Anoeta.

So, Ibiza will play in March for 12 points that are vital for their initial aspirations, that of guaranteeing continuity in the category, but also for future ones: playing, in his first year in professional football, a promotion phase to the First Division, something that was not even in the best plans of the club chaired by Amadeo Salvo, which He is still determined to write the history of Ibizan football in golden letters.