The saw teeth of Zaragoza

The Real Zaragoza has seen how this season the possibility of descending to Second B or First Federation, As it will be called from next season, it has been more real than ever, although it is not the first time that it has to fight for permanence in these eight years in the Second Division. There are already a total of four and in the previous three he managed to get into the promotion playoff the following year.

They are the saw teeth of Real Zaragoza, which has become accustomed to alternating a bad season with a good one. In fact, he has only chained two campaigns, 2014-15 and 2015-16, fighting for the same goal: in the first he finished sixth, disputed the promotion and stayed six minutes from promotion in Las Palmas, while in the second he was left out of the playoff on the last day after being defeated 6-2 against a Llagostera already descended.

Those two courses were preceded by a season, 2013-14, in which Real Zaragoza had to dismiss Paco Herrera on the 30th day when he was two points from relegation. Victor Muñoz achieved permanence and after the two aforementioned seasons the Aragonese had to fight again to save the category in 2016-17. Luis Milla he was dismissed on the 11th day, Raúl Agné in the 30th, with the team three points from relegation, and Cesar Lainez achieved the goal with a draw in Montilivi on the penultimate day.

A campaign later, in 2017-18, Zaragoza finished the League in third position and was eliminated by the Numantia in the playoff with Natxo Gonzalez on the bench, who together with Víctor Fernández, who was also third in 2019-20, are the only two coaches who have managed to complete a season in these eight years in the Second Division. In between, the 2018-19 academic year, in which Idiot was dismissed on the tenth day and Lucas Alcaraz placeholder image in the 18th when the team was in relegation places, one from salvation, a goal that Víctor Fernández achieved.

And after falling back in the playoff, in this case against him Elche, the Aragonese have had to fight again this season to maintain the category. Baraja held ten games in office and Ivan Martinez another eight, with only three points out of a possible 24, a dynamic that led Zaragoza to four points from remaining. Then Juan Ignacio Martínez arrived and worked the miracle, achieving salvation two days from the conclusion. Now, facing the coming year, the goal of the Alicante coach is to fight again to return the Aragonese club to the First division.