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The evident improvement in Sporting’s sensations at La Romareda did not translate into a victory that was necessary to definitively dispel doubts and consolidate Atletico’s aspirations. The point, which is expected to be a turning point, was the loot that a Sporting took that went from more to less. After an interesting first half in which only a little bit of success was lacking in the face of goal, the Gijon team faded away, leaving once again that feeling of inability to put one more gear into the game to resolve it in their favor. The sum of a point out of twelve possible is a poor balance and although for now the team is still fifth, it will be forced to look in the rear-view mirror at the increasingly threatening steps of a Girona that, if it wins on Sunday at the Tartiere, it will be just two points.

Perhaps spurred on by the defeat in the derby and its consequences, Sporting jumped onto the La Romareda turf with a different spirit, dressed in their colors (it is seen that LaLiga has updated the Selector Kit these days, the program that this time allowed the Gijon team playing rojiblanco) and an apparently more reasonable line-up. The momentum of Guille Rosas returned, freshness in the midfield with Gragera, Borja López at the center of the defense and Manu García to play where he should. The bands did not work so well, with Aitor García in his line of total error this season and Nacho Méndez somewhat more accurate but not enough.

Sporting set the times in the first half and, unlike the derby, they did translate their dominance at times. He encountered three recurring problems: Djuka’s drought, the lack of alternatives when scoring (LaLiga is over and there is no improvement in that facet) and the traditional stop by Cristian Álvarez, used to annoying Sporting’s plans. . This time the goalkeeper shone in a great intervention to a shot from Djurjdevic that was forced but was looking threateningly for the opposite post.

It was Sporting’s fourth chance to score, but also the last. And that there were forty minutes ahead. The team was diluted, without the solutions provided from the bench being able to alter a script that, in Sporting matches, always seems more or less established. If anything, some Cumic start by band, which did not go further.

The good thing about La Romareda is that the team gave another image and that it has broken the losing dynamics of the previous games. The bad news, that he still does not win and that his problems in front of goal continue to weigh on him.