Cádiz awaits Athletic. After playing the first leg of the Cup semifinal against Levante on Thursday, the rojiblancos begin today to prepare the commitment against the Andalusians on Monday at nine o'clock at night corresponding to the 23rd LaLiga. The rojiblancos visit Ramón de Carranza at a propitious moment, or what is the same, at the worst moment of the team led by Alvaro Cervera. And the thing is that the people of Cadiz have a balance of four defeats and one draw in the last five games played between the League and the Cup. They have fallen against Sevilla (3-0), Atlético (2-4) and Real Sociedad (4-1) and they tied with Levante at home (2-2) in the regularity tournament and also lost the commitment against Girona (2-0) that got them out of the KO competition.
Since January 10 they do not know what it is to win, when they gave a good account of Alavés, then led by Pablo Machin. It is not surprising, therefore, that his coach was dejected after losing at Anoeta. “The Alvaro person and not him Alvaro coach, ”said the Equatorial Guinea-born coach yesterday.
In this period, they have conceded a whopping 15 goals to add to a statistic that makes them the third team in the top category with the most goals received at the end of the previous day. It is not strange either that his technician has as a priority to stop this bleeding. “Our big problem now is the goals against. The mission today is to close the door, it cannot be otherwise. When they score us, we can't change the scheme because we lose the game. If we do not close the door, we are not going to change the dynamics and score points ”, he added three days before the confrontation against the lions. “We knew there were going to be moments like this. The team is aware that it was not going to be easy, “he acknowledged on Thursday. Alvaro Negredo, its main figure.
Cádiz is located in fourteenth place in the First Division with 24 points, one less than Athletic adds, which has played one less game. But he has lived much better in his return to First. So much so that he became one of the revelations in the first phase of the season, reaching fifth place in the standings after beating Barça (2-1) on the twelfth day.
On Monday they will try to redirect their situation against Athletic, who also need to win to move up in the qualifying table.