“Ponferradina’s warrior DNA is indisputable”

The Colombian goalkeeper of SD Ponferradina, Luis Alberto “Lucho” García, valued, despite the defeat against Real Oviedo (2-0) in the farewell of 2021, which the Berciano team maintained, although they played outnumbered for a good part of the encounter, “his warrior DNA, which is indisputable.”

For the Barranquilla player, the defeat at Carlos Tartiere, who broke a streak of five games without losing, does not spoil the great trajectory of the team “which continues to show that, despite any circumstance, it is always competitive and the icing on the cake for the year. it was on, although it is clear that the ideal would have been to score “.

The former Deportivo player believes that the performance of Madrid referee David Gálvez Rascón was “disconcerting” in some of his assessments and could condition, from his point of view, the result “because decisions in similar plays were different from one team to another” .

Despite the early expulsion -minute 15- of Edu Espiau, Deportiva knew how to hold the score at zero for almost the first hour of play until Borja Sánchez’s goal was conceded because, according to the Colombian goalkeeper, “the team became strong by gathering the lines a lot and making it difficult for the rival to reach the goal “.

García is convinced that the stumble on Asturian terrain “is going to remain an unfortunate anecdote” and hopes that the defeat does not imply added pressure for the next league match, on Sunday, January 9, in El Toralín against Real Zaragoza.

“We must not become obsessed or create greater pressure for this defeat, but keep the idea of ​​going game by game,” said the sports goalkeeper who, like coach Jon Pérez Bolo, “would sign” to repeat the same balance of points -37 – in the second round “even though it will be much more difficult, as has been shown, because all the teams push harder”.

Lucho García played his fourth game of the season, all of them due to the absence of the usual starter, the Iranian international Amir Abedzadeh, and as in the previous ones, all of them at home, he could not keep the door to zero after the 2-0 in Tenerife, 1-1 against Real Sociedad B, 1-0 in Burgos and 2-0 in Carlos Tartiere.