El Sabadell and groundhog day

The Sabadell seems that it is immersed in the day of the groundhog. It is difficult to explain how the Harlequin team cannot get out of their matches alive, but the truth is that they are letting out points that at the end of the season they may miss due to disconnections in the final minutes of the match. Antonio Hidalgo's team has lost ten of the 14 games it has played and nine of them have been produced by goals that have reached beyond the 75th minute.

In order to stay one more year in the Second Division, Sabadell must improve, and a lot, in this regard, and that is because matches that they had drawn or even won have wasted for a few horrible final minutes of the match. The last defeat against Fuenlabrada (1-2) by a goal received in 88 'was not extraordinary because the harlequinade misfortune began already in the first four days of the League. And the reason is that Rayo beat him in 87 '(2-1); Mallorca did it in 84 '(1-0); Espanyol, at 83 '(0-1); and Mirandés, from 75 '(0-2). The only team that has been able to beat him with a greater time margin has been Albacete, who endorsed him 3-0, and his first goal came in the 33rd minute.

Crashing in the final minutes is painful and is something that Sabadell, in a dangerous way, is getting used to. The bad fario haunts him. Their current streak is one win and five losses in the last six games and all these setbacks have occurred when the matches, a priori, they were destined to end in a draw. But then the harlequinade curse has always appeared this course and they have ended up losing. And the data are clear: Almería beat them in 92 '(1-2); Málaga, after achieving 1-2 in 75 '; Logroñés made it 1-0 in the 82nd minute, Sporting scored two goals in the last quarter of an hour (3-1); and the KO of Fuenlabrada is also history because, the 1-2, in addition to being on the verge of adding the second half, was in own goal. A déjà vú that is taking life away because if the matches only lasted 75 minutes, Sabadell would have 11 more points.