Asier Garitano works the abyss

Asier Garitano returned to Leganes on January 27, 2021. Not a month has passed (the anniversary will be fulfilled on Saturday, after having played in Cartagena) and the panorama in Butarque is totally different from the one that was drawn on the cucumber horizon. Then Leganés was sixth, with the same points as the seventh classified (34, like Ponferradina) and one less game that did not feed hope. The rival of that postponed duel, Almería, then seemed an unbeatable 'bogeyman'.

Today, however, where before there was a risk of being outside the privileged zone, an abyss emerges. The Lega already orbits nine points above the play-off exclusion zone in a reverse trend cut. Because that Wednesday in which the Bergara he put himself at the controls of the pepineros, the abyss was what was seen over their heads.

Eleven points distanced Lega from direct promotion. Now that distance is only three points and, to top it all, it has also managed to reduce to nothing, zero points, the difference with the third place, an Almería that now does not seem so coconut (on Wednesday of last week it fell in Butarque) and that he no longer emerges as the only serious candidate for direct promotion positions. Now the Lega also flies that flag.

They support and shake it, yes, its fans and an environment that lives excited about the last five consecutive victories, the first time that Lega has achieved it in the professional category. In the Leganés dressing room the message is diametrically opposite. Thing of a Garitano who does not care how to ask about the options of the Lega to ascend. He always responds with evasions, a message without a calculator and the next training as the only horizon.

“The objective today is to rest tomorrow. That is the objective”, he answered ironically after winning the Tenerife in the first question of your appearance. “The objective is still the same (as the one we had when we returned). Every time we are closer to the best. This game (against Tenerife) will give us the option to shorten something or to Majorca or to Almeria (His game had not yet been played), but the goal after such a hard week is, at least, to rest on Monday to return on Tuesday. It is the only objective right now, “he added bluntly. Almost as much as the abyss it has opened in the privileged zone.