The defeat of Leganes in Burgos (4-0 after a win that was already 3-0 in the 32nd minute of the game) yesterday left a handful of players in the cucumber expedition with potential consequences for the immediate future and even the transfer market that is still underway. From the coach Mehdi Nafti, even some players marked by a particularly gray performance in the midst of the disaster of The Plantation.
Of course, of all, the first one who is always marked in results like this is the coach. Own Nafti, before the fans displaced to Burgos, wanted to get in front of his players to receive the criticism and give the corresponding explanations. “I am to blame”, he intoned in a speech of responsibility that corroborated some of his decisions during the match.
The most striking, that of the change of centrals with respect to the last League match against the Royal society b. The coach left on the bench Sergio, one of the highlights this season in defense, to replace Bruno (the incumbent usually next to Sergio) and give a vote of confidence to Tarin. The Valencian was not a starter in the League since matchday 14, the day of the debut of Nafti as a blue and white coach.
Well, one and the other, Bruno and Tarin, They have been portrayed in the first three blue and white goals, especially in the first (Bruno’s mistake, Tarín cannot stop Juanma) and in the third (Burgos easily penetrates the side of Bruno without Tarin be able to stop the arrival of Juanma himself.
unsuccessful changes
To fix the mistake, Nafti decided to reformulate the axis of defense again, but he did so by removing Bustinza and Quintilla (two sides) by the aforementioned Bruno and Tarin. The consequence was to play with Javi Hernandez and Bustinza in the axis of the defense despite the fact that Sergio was on the bench, a priori, available to play. A couple of central defenders who already acted in Valladolid, but then due to the lack of troops. “We have used two full-backs in the center”, he repeated then Nafti.
The decision soon seemed not entirely correct. Bustinza and his prompt expulsion (two yellow cards in 14 minutes) not only did not prevent Leganés’s defensive bleeding, but also exacerbated the difference between one team and another. The rest of the changes (Sabin, Perea and Arnáiz) also failed to rebuild a disoriented team from the start of the game and that, in the offensive desire of the coach, advanced the line excessively at times to give Burgos spaces in the face of rival pressure. The day before Nafti he had intoned that he was more concerned with the team’s offensive problems than the defensive ones. Perhaps after this defeat, the coach will rethink his thoughts.
A defense and marked goal
Precisely the aforementioned Tarin, Bruno and Bustinza They were also portrayed by their individual failures, those that exposed the defensive shortages of the Leganes, also mixed with those tactical problems. Because there, in a team that plays with the defense on the wire of the spinal cord, the problems at the moment left their authors more in evidence. Bruno and Tarin in the first part, but also a Bustinza that, since the descent to Second, is not showing the version that was known about him. The two quick cards that sent him to the street are a milestone in this bitter pill.
It was also very, very marked Ivan Villar, savior in some specific actions, but author of a very, very big mistake at 2-0, when before the shot of Valcarce, got into his own goal with the ball as a result of inertia and a misinterpretation of the spaces. The shot was easy, but Villar he turned it into a goal and, by the way, one of the mistakes of the season. With the recent change in goal (Riesgo had regained ownership with Nafti), the debate on whether Villar must continue to be the starting goalkeeper or if, on the contrary, he must recover the position Risk.