Real Zaragoza enters the final stretch of the championship with only three points ahead of relegation, When three days ago that income was double, and now it faces the worst calendar of the nine teams involved in the fight for permanence. And is that has to face three of the top four in the standings (Espanyol, Mallorca and Leganés), in addition to al Las Palmas and Castellón, the latter a very direct rival.
Neither Juan Ignacio Martinez nor do any of its players want to risk in public the number of points in which salvation can be this season, but from the inside out at Zaragoza is encrypted at a minimum of 48, five more than it is now. So the Aragonese team will need two wins or one win and two draws in those five final matches.
The Twitter account 'Silver Goals' has prepared a report detailing all the possible combinations of results for this end of the campaign and Real Zaragoza only gives a 9.5% chance of relegation to the new First Federation, but a stumble in front of the Spanish, who only has one point left to mathematically certify his return to the First Division, could make things much worse. Zaragoza has only added two points in the last three days and has seen how three rivals (Alcorcón, Logroñés and Castellón) have been placed within two points and how the Sabadell, the first behind the border of relegation, has added two consecutive wins.
“We have to go out and win because the rivals who are below us continue to add and things are getting tighter,” he stressed yesterday. Adrian, one of the voices that everyone hears in the dressing room, despite completing his first season at the Aragonese club.
Zaragoza will complete its last training session before tomorrow's game against Espanyol at the Ciudad Deportiva (6:15 p.m.) and JIM will then give his press conference and the list of summoned, for which It is doubtful the Uruguayan Toro Fernández, despite the fact that he has been exercising since Monday with relative normality.