To date, Almería he had never achieved 28 points out of 39 possible. Nor did he average two goals per game after thirteen days. Nor was there won up to nine times after playing thirteen rounds. The figures are not by chance, but the result of the Almería that Rubi has built, settled in the leadership (six times leaders this day, more than in the previous 32 years of the club’s history), commanding the table of goals in favor and only one for behind Burgos, Fuenlabrada and Zaragoza, who have yet to play this weekend (Julián Calero’s men play in Tenerife on Monday.
The Vilasar de Mar coach has formed an Almería that carries on even its most gray matches, such as last night against Leganés. Leave a clean sheet seven days later he was key in a team from Almeria that presents the workings of a champion. “We have not had a game as we would have liked, we have been thicker”, Rubi commented in the press room, who acknowledged that the most fair thing would have been “the tie” and pointing out that the dynamics could have influenced both areas.
Almería was not comfortable against Leganés. Rubi’s men did not get the ball played as clean as other nights and the connection between the center of the field and the forward left to be desired, in addition to the bad “decision making on the counterattack”, as the rojiblanco coach himself pointed out. Even so, the Almeria squad proved to have enough raw material to carry out a triumph as the greatest do in moments of great suffering. The Vilasarense preprador has also achieved that practically all his staff feel important, as his last window of changes shows, in which he withdrew Sadiq and Portillo, two of the main assets of Almeria.
8,867 spectators, the best figure of the course
8,867 attended the Mediterranean Games Stadium last night to watch the match between Almería and Leganés, registering the best entry of the season despite being a weekday. In the first two, with restrictions due to the pandemic, almost 4,000 fans attended the match against Oviedo and 6,353 against Málaga CF. After allowing 100% of the capacity, the entrance increased to 7,074 followers of the day of Tenerife and 8,743, that of Las Palmas. In front of Real Sociedad B, also a weekday, there were 7,697 spectators,