The saying goes that man is the only animal that stumbles twice on the same stone and Real Valladolid is taking care of taking this maxim to its extremes, since it is capable of stumbling over and over again, to end up wasting advantages that they prevent him from winning games and they are condemning him to suffer to avoid relegation.
Throughout the season he has lost many points in the last moments and when it seems that nothing worse can happen, it happens and the points fly, especially from Zorrilla, a place where the curse seems to grow. Since the campaign began, Real Valladolid has won three games at its stadium, in addition to six draws and therefore ended up defeated seven times in 16 visits, this leaves a balance of 15 points out of 42 played at home. Cipher clearly deficient. Away from home he has won two, tied seven and lost six of the 15 he has played, which gives a production of 13 points.
In Zorrilla it has been ahead many times, starting with the first day in which Míchel scored against Real Sociedad in 39 'and the San Sebastian team drew in the second half thanks to Roberto López's goal in 60'.
Against Eibar he missed a point in a match that came tied at discount, but one against Rodrigues gave the armory team victory. Alavés also took the spoils of Zorrilla with goals in the second half, Pina in the 55th minute and Borja Sainz in the 85th minute.
Continuing with the sayings, there is another that says, 'the second parts were never good' and that as we are seeing is fulfilled in Sergio's Pucela who is not able to tie results when it goes ahead and the seconds arrive 45 minutes. Levante in the first round lost 1-0 (Marcos André in 55 ') and thanks to a late penalty (83') transformed by Campaña they took a point and left the Blanquivioleta without winning once again. Add and go
And since the story was far from over, there were much more bitter chapters to be written. Valencia took all three points from Zorrilla thanks to a goal from Carlos Soler in the 75th minute. Real Madrid also won 0-1 well into the second half, Casemiro's goal came in the 65th minute. Perhaps the high point of these matches was the draw that Sevilla achieved, in the discount marked by their goalkeeper Bono.
Granada visited Zorrilla a few weeks ago and returned to Valladolid the defeat it suffered in Los Cármenes, with two goals in the last leg of the match, Jorge Molina in 78 'and Quini in 86' with the aggravating circumstance that he was also ahead Valladolid until that minute 78 '.
The last disappointment, for now, came this Saturday with the important visit of Cádiz, who arrived calm in the table with 36 points and that hardly posed difficulties, being able to go thrashed in the first half, but the tight 1-0 became 1-1 again in the second half when Juan Cala scored in 64 ' .
A whole rosary of points lost in Zorrilla when the team was ahead and with goals received in the second half, some of them in the discount, but if this is not enough to guarantee that Valladolid does not reach the end of the game with guarantees of adding victories, it is enough to review what happened in several away games in which they also lost advantages or reaped losses with so many conceded in the second halves of the games.
Madrid's goal in Valdebebas was scored by Vinicius in the 65th minute in a match that ended 1-0. In El Alcoraz, Valladolid managed to have a 0-2 advantage thanks to goals from Waldo and Bruno, but Rafa Mir and Sandro put the tie in the 52nd and 56th minutes of shock that ended with 2-2.
Atlético de Madrid won 2-0 at Wanda thanks to goals from Lemar (56 ') and Llorente (72'), again in the second half. In the Ciudad de Valencia they also suffered a comeback and could not maintain the advantage they had in the 83rd minute (1-2) and Roger's goal left Sergio's men without victory.
Alavés won in Mendizorroza thanks to a goal from Joselu that made it 1-0 again in the second half, minute 66. Eibar did not score in the second half, but it also prevented Valladolid from winning by coming back from Mesa's initial goal (penalty ) with a goal from Javi García.
Last of those memories away from home thatThey are the one of Balaídos and the Camp Nou. Against Celta, Pucela won thanks to a goal from Orellana, he won until the discount, at which time a foul from the center of the field turned it into a Murillo goal and left the issue in a draw (1-1) and honey again on the lips for visitors. What to say about the game in Barcelona with arbitration by Jaime Latre included. Valladolid starts a well-deserved draw and Barcelona, with one more, signed Dembelé's goal a few seconds from 90 'and made the disappointment travel again to Valladolid.
On the opposite side of the scale are the points achieved 'in extremis', for example the tie achieved in Sánchez Pizjuán with a goal on the 90' by Raúl or the one scored by Olaza also with time dying in Martínez Valero to achieve a pyrrhic tie.
Definitely stumbling blocks over and over again that have prevented games from winning, advantages wasted by a team that has not known how to win more than five crashes out of 32 and that will face the last six desperately and with the long shadow of the lows and the goals conceded in the second half of the games and even in the discounts . Too many accidents and mistakes to solve in just one month remaining in the competition.