MADRID, 19 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Leganés continues its good unbeaten streak in LaLiga SmartBank 2022-2023 after beating Real Zaragoza 2-1 this Monday at the Butarque Stadium, in the game that closed the twenty-first day of the championship.
The “pepinero” team said goodbye to the year in the domestic tournament with a key victory that extends their consecutive matches to ten without knowing defeat and that allows them to add 30 points, two of the “playoff” zone of the Second Division that mark Cartagena right now.
The Madrid team was up against a Zaragoza that had gone five games without losing and was the one who struck first in a play that was born almost out of nowhere. A long kick from the visiting goalkeeper failed to clear the local defense and Giuliano Simeone, on his second attempt, scored the 0-1, especially because his family was in the stands.
However, Leganés was able to reply on one of their few chances in the first half and equalized after half an hour through Juan Muñoz. After the break, the clash opened up a little more and it was decided by a penalty from Alejandro Francés to José Arnaiz, which Juan Muñoz converted again. In addition, the defender from Zaragoza saw the second warning for trying to spoil the launch of the maximum penalty and reduced the chances of equalizing for his team, which continues to see relegation close.