Lugo ends the resistance and the streak of Ponferradina

Lugo, with a goal from Hugo Rama In the throes of the match, he ended (1-0) with the resistance of a Ponferradina who played at a disadvantage from minute 43 due to the expulsion, with a direct red, of Curro, and that his streak of six games without losing was cut.

The rojiblancos imposed one more march at the start of the game with two corners in the first five minutes. Gerard Valentín was, once again, his most incisive footballer on the right wing, a headache for visiting coverage. The best attacks of his team passed through his boots, also that of the goal.

The winger's recital began at nine minutes with a filtered pass to Hugo Rama. This, from the baseline, surpassed Caro and assisted El Hacen, which, without a goalkeeper under the sticks, met with opposition from I love, providential by blocking the midfielder's shot and avoiding the goal.

The Ponferradina was settling in the Anxo Carro and Pablo Valcarce, after a good movement in the front of the area, threatened Lugo with a shot that was too crossed.

Neither did the local team find a goal after 39 minutes with a throw from Hugo Rama to a pass from Chris Ramos, and the game was complicated for the visitors with the expulsion of Curro for an elbow to Luis Ruiz before the protests of the Ponferradina footballer and the bench.

The Bercianos had to resist and for Lugo, very limited by casualties, the match became an exercise in patience, which ended up bearing fruit after a loss of Saúl Crespo. The Galicians made it profitable with the verticality of Gerard Valentín, who assisted the area so that Barreiro fought the ball and picked it up Hugo Rama, who did not forgive.

Ponferradina fought to the end To rescue the tie in inferiority, he stepped on the area and even asked for a penalty in a grab from Xavi Torres to Yuri that the referee did not consider enough to whistle the maximum penalty.

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