JIM's Zaragoza has not beaten any direct rival

The Real Zaragoza face friday in the Carriage width its nth final for permanence, a dog-face duel in front of a Lugo in free fall that accumulates fourteen days without winning and six consecutive defeats. The Aragonese team maintains a four-point advantage over the relegation border and a triumph would be a giant step in the agonizing race for salvation, but the statistics are not, precisely, with the Saragossa by Juan Ignacio Martínez, who has not won still to a direct rival at the time of the confrontation: four draws and two defeats. And what he needs is to win again, to add three hit points.

JIM took Real Zaragoza on December 13 in a truly desperate situation and four points away from permanence, and his global numbers are the best endorsement to his performance on the bench, because the team is now fifteenth and in a partial classification with the Alicante technician would be in playoff score and one point from the direct promotion, but, six days from the end of the championship in the Second Division, still need to add a minimum of six points in order to get permanence, and has ahead of games against Espanyol, Las Palmas, Mallorca or Leganés. So the direct duels earrings front to Lugo, which he did win in the first round when the Galician team doubled in score and was quite far from the fight for permanence, or Castellón seem fundamental.

Till the date and in the direct duels, the Zaragoza by JIM has achieved two ties in front of Cartagena (1-1 and 0-0) and another two against him Sabadell (1-1) and the Logroñés (1-1), while reaping defeats against the Albacete (1-0), in a match marked by the refereeing scandal and the four-goal misfortune, and the Alcorcón (0-1). All of them were below the Aragonese except Cartagena in the first round, which had three more points. East Friday night, Zaragoza has a great opportunity to change the course of statistics and obtain a victory that places it very close to achieving its salvation and, incidentally, its survival as a club 89 years after its constitution.