The Sporting de Gijón was imposed this Saturday at home to Albacete (0-1) after playing 41 minutes with one man less due to the expulsion of the French central Boyomo and he settled in the noble zone of the table. The Albacete team is the cross of the coin. It occupies the twentieth position after chaining its third consecutive defeat.
Albaceteños and Gijoneses faced the duel with a different perspective, since the local team needed to win to get out of the relegation places and the Sporting He is settled in the play-off zone for promotion to First Division.
The biggest danger for the Whites was the top scorer in the category, Djurdjevic, who had achieved eight goals in as many days, causing this week the Albacete coach, Alejandro Menéndez, warned that they should “look for help and coverage so as not to let him receive comfortably.”
Although it was not the Serbian and yes Manu Garcia the one who finished off a service from the left wing of Saúl, at eight minutes, who went wide despite the fact that he was in a comfortable position to have scored easily.
La Mancha's reply emerged in a free kick masterfully launched by Alvaro Jimenez and topped off by a Zozulia who saw how Marine He denied him the goal with a saving stretch (m.17).
It seemed that Albacete had found the formula so that its rival did not prowl the goal of Tomeu Nadal, until after half an hour of play the team led by David Gallego went ahead in a strategy play.
Manu Garcia He took a foul at the far post looking for the appearance of Gragera's head so that he placed a precise ball to the small area that Babin sent to the bottom of the tights
with an unappealable head.
Nothing more remarkable happened in a first half in which the most fair thing would have been a draw, but in which the rojiblanco team was more effective in the face of the opposing goal.
The jug of cold water turned into ice cream for Menéndez's team after the dressing room in a race in which Boyomo grabbed Djurdjevic when he left alone to face Tomeu Nadal, costing him his expulsion (m.49).
With one less the mission of scoring for the Albacete team became almost a utopia before one of the aspiring promotion, although the local coach tried to revolutionize his team with the entry of Ortuño and of Jean jules.
However, there was a lot of distance between the white attacking men and the opposing goal, so it seemed unlikely that a danger opportunity would arise in favor of the Albacete.
It depended, therefore, on long balls like the one Álvaro Jiménez gave him, which Ortuño wasted with a loose and faithless shot –mint 74- in which he revealed the reason for his poor scoring statistics (somewhat in twenty-six games).
Sporting forgave in a heads-up between Djurdjevic and Tomeu Nadal that the Mallorcan goalkeeper won in the 78th minute, as well as a minute later on a double occasion by the same player and Gaspar, with another pair of interventions by the local goalkeeper.
Ortuño He also had a good chance in the 88th minute after a personal move in which he took a whip that Mariño cleared with a providential stretch.
(+) See the summary of Albacete – Sporting
0 – Albacete: Tomeu Nadal, Arroyo (Benito, m.46), Boyomo, Gorosito (Jean Jules, m.66), Fran García, Álvaro Jiménez, Silvestre, Dani Torres, Fuster (Kecojevic, m.53), Peña (Cedric, m. 83) and Zozulia (Ortuño, m.66).
1 – Sporting: Mariño, Rosas, Babin, Marc Valiente, Saúl, Cumic (Aitor García, m.71), Gragera, Javi Fuego, Gaspar (Cristian Salvador, m.94), Manu García (Pedro Díaz, m.71) and Djurdjevic ( Pablo Pérez, m.87).
Goal: 0-1, M.31: Babin
Referee: Pulido Santana (Canary Committee). He showed yellow cardboard to the local Silvestre, Fran García and Cedric, and the visitor Gragera. He sent off Albacete's Boyomo with a direct red in the 49th minute.
Incidents: match corresponding to the twenty-sixth day played at the Carlos Belmonte stadium.