The duel of the bench between two former Athletic players ended with a draw on the scoreboard. José Ángel Ziganda and Jon Pérez Bolo They met yesterday in an empty Carlos Tartiere on the return to competition in the Smartbank League, Second Division. Oviedo and Ponferradina, the two teams that manage these two ex-Leon who coincided with Athletic in the nineties, tied at zero, but the victory could well have fallen on the side of the Leonese team, which did more deserves than the locals to take the three points.
Since it has arrived, Kuko It has endowed the Asturian team with greater defensive solidity, but it still lacks fluidity to move the ball in the midfield and therefore its offensive contribution suffers. Yesterday was a new sample of it. “It was neither the match nor the result we expected. We have not been successful, they have been calmer with the ball and we, on the contrary, precipitates. We had been waiting for this game for a month, but nothing ends here, ”said Navarrese in the Tartiere press room.
On the contrary, Ponferradina had better occasions than the locals. So much so that Lunin, the Oviedo goalkeeper, became the best of his team to save a point for the Asturians. “There was uncertainty about how the team was going to respond, but I am very happy.. There were doubts about being the first game after the break, if it was going to be long and how the team was going to respond, but we have held up well and hopefully it will be the keynote in all that remains, “he said Bolus at the end of the game.
This is the first tie for Ziganda in front of Oviedo. Larrainzar's man lost his debut match against Lugo (1-0), but won the following two against Tenerife (1-0) and Extremadura (1-2). Kuko regretted the absence of the public, something that could have given him a boost, especially in the final stretch of the match. “The team has remembered the fans especially in the last hour of the game.”