Categories: Football

The ‘JIM effect’ is still latent in Real Zaragoza

The new Real Zaragoza coach, Juan Ignacio Martínez “JIM”, debuted with an important victory over Lugo, forced and balsamic for the team to stay alive but that, however, does not remove him from relegation.

The Aragonese team needed to win given its position in the classification so as not to see how the limit of permanence, which before this day had four points, could move away and did so in the first appearance of the Alicante coach in the League, since previously He had done it in the Cup last Wednesday against Gimnástica de Torrelavega.

With little time to work with the team, since he was appointed last Sunday night, and with the cup-bearer duel in between, the best of the game for the handy team was three points, received like May water and the feeling that the team continues to grow with improvements behind and in attack where it reached the opposite goal much more assiduously than in previous games.

The victory tomorrow cut the streak of Lugo, who had not lost for five games (four draws and one victory), and deprived him of having approached the top positions of the classification.

The local team had a good staging with two headshots by Juanjo Narváez and Jair Amador in two strategic plays in the first ten minutes that were defeated by a successful Ander Cantero, plus another shot by Iñigo Eguaras, also rejected by the goal of the Lugo, but as the minutes passed the Galician team closed the roads to their area and the locals were no longer as comfortable as in the beginning.

In fact, in the second section of the first period it was the Galician team players who arrived three times, the first from El Hacen with a shot that went wide and the other two with shots that were covered by Jair in the area a shots by Gerard Valentín and Hugo Rama.

In the second half, JIM's team was ambitious and in the 48th minute they could have opened the scoring with a great shot by Juanjo Narváez that crashed into the crossbar of the foreign goal.

The “blanquilla” insistence made the locals give a sense of danger in each attack against Mehdi Nafti's team, which had problems to contain its rival until the pitcher went so far that it broke in the 69th minute.

An error in the visitors' ball exit was used by Pep Chavarría to score after the assistance of Íñigo Eguaras, although it was the VAR that conceded it because in the first instance the referee had scored offside.

Lugo, with everything lost, went for a better result and had the option of a tie in 84 in a shot by Juanpe, only against Cristian Álvarez, who did not specify.

(+) See the summary of the match

DATA SHEET:

Real Zaragoza: Cristian Álvarez; Vigaray, Francés, Jair, Nieto; Zanimacchia (Jannick, m.83), Francho, Eguaras (Zapater, m.75), Chavarría (Larrazábal, m.88); Narváez (Vuckic, m.88) and “Toro” Fernández (Iván Azón, m.83).

Lugo: Cantero; Campadabal, Venancio, Pita, Luis Ruiz; Gerard Valentín (Juanpe, m.58), El Hacen (Herrera, m.72), Xavi Torres (Escobar, m.85), Hugo Rama; Carrillo (Manu Barreiro, m.72) and Chris Ramos.

Goal: 1-0. m.69. Chavarría.

Referee: Gálvez Rascón (Madrid Committee). He gave a yellow card to locals Jair and Chavarría and visitors Xavi Torres and Gerard Valentín.

Incidents: Match corresponding to the 19th day of LaLiga Smartbank played at the La Romareda stadium behind closed doors.

Gabby Barker

Gabby is someone who is interested in all types of sports, she loves to attend watching matches live. Whenever there is a match being played in her city, she makes sure to get the tickets in advance. Due to the love for sports, she joined Sportsfinding, and started writing general sports news. Apart from writing the news, she is also the editor for the website who checks and edits every news content before they go live.

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