Three key games to define the future of Zaragoza

Mirandés, Burgos and Sporting de Gijón. Real Zaragoza will face in just eight days three games that will determine to a large extent knew how to become in this championship and the own luck of Juan Ignacio Martínez, to whom nobody questions within the club but that like any coach is not immune to the results. These three encounters can mean a springboard to the middle of the board or a slide with very dangerous consequences, because the team is scoring downhill, and they are going to face without Narváez or Vada, or what is the same, without its two best scorers, or almost the only ones.

The bad news does not stop happening in Zaragoza, which has only won one game in these first thirteen days and to whom the muscle injuries they have punished him at the same time and at a critical moment. its need to win is huge and he can no longer afford to stumble at La Romareda, where he has not given his fans a joy since last May 20, when he reached mathematical permanence by thrashing 3-0 to Castellón. That day Francho and Iván Azón, two of the youths who made JIM’s miracle possible, opened a victory that Tejero closed with a penalty.

But Zaragoza, as much as this season pointed to a significant improvement, it is in the same as last year. It is a team that he does not beat anyone, without a goal and who is waiting for a very complicated schedule until the end of the first round, as he has not yet faced the Sporting, a Las Palmas, al Éibar, al Almeria or the Tenerife. He is in time to star in a reaction and to live at least one campaign without shocks, in a no man’s land without aspirations but without stress, although he does not show signs that it will be like that. its soccer it is more and more confused and JIM can no longer hide the wear and tear of office. It is the least culprit, no doubt, but it was a miscalculation to emphatically endorse the triumphalism of the sporting director, when he spoke of that of be in the ointment. They brought him eight signings, but only Vada, with four goals, and Fran Gámez have been noticed.

Torrecilla, which is already in the center of the bullseye due to its own demerits, has not made the cut in two markets and has left JIM at the feet of the horses, having to justify the unjustifiable many times. its Montilivi revolution It did not work either, as the change of system against Ponferradina did not, and at the technician they run out the solutions. He has run out of Narváez and Vada at the worst moment and he will have to trust his luck in Álvaro Giménez and Nano Mesa, two of the most expensive bets in Torrecilla and that have not yet seen the door. Neither have others denied attackers, What Bermejo or Borja Sáinz, while the Panamanian César Yanis remains a mystery.

And remains Ivan Azon, without being released this season either, but at least it is noticed every time it plays. Fight, fight and shake, and has caused at least two penalties. Holding him responsible for the lack of a goal would be like blaming Clemente, that has not yet debuted, due to the lack of solvency in its own area.

The reality is that Zaragoza is fighting not to descend for the third time in the last four seasons and that no one at the club can remedy it. JIM already did a miracle last year, and now you have ahead three very important games not to have him, or whoever, to repeat it.