Leganés resists the rain and the courage of Alcorcón

After two games without a win, Leganés met again with victory in Santo Domingo in the Madrid derby against Alcorcón, who went ahead on the scoreboard, and achieved the three points with so many Gaku shibasaki and José Arnaiz that allow him to position himself to one of the third place.

The intense rain that fell on the Santo Domingo grass was the main protagonist of a very intense duel, in which the Alcorcón He came forward at eight minutes. He did it after a penalty of Asier Risk on Xisco Jimenez who transformed from eleven meters the Nigerian midfielder Kelechi Nwakali.

The goal left Leganés touched for several minutes until, midway through the first half, he began to compose himself and began to multiply his approaches on the rival area, especially taking advantage of the step backwards that the player took. Alcorcón, who gave up taking the initiative and was subjected in his area.

With two minutes to go before the break, Leganés achieved the equalizer after a good collective move that culminated the Japanese international Gaku Shibasaki, who beat the central potters, David Fernández and José León, in the race, to finish off a centered ball on goal. from the right by Javi Avilés.

After the restart, Leganés was the one with the most ambition to score second and their offensive strategy did a lot of damage to Alcorcón, who had a hard time stopping the visiting attacks.

The set of Asier Garitano He warned first with a header from Eraso, totally alone, who stopped well on the goal line Dani Jiménez, but on his second arrival José Arnaiz did lodge the ball at the bottom of the pottery nets with a crossed shot after a ride by the left side.

The lack of ideas caused Juan Antonio Anquela to look for a new air in his team, something that did not help him to reach the rival goal clearly, although it did end the game looking for a draw with more courage than success.

With this result the Leganes is located just one point from the third, Almería, and the Alcorcón returns to relegation places.

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