Albacete Balompié vs Real Sporting de Gijón: Match Preview and Key Details

In the eighties, the actress Carmen Maura became very popular with a television advertisement in which, thanks to the pesetas she saved “cup by cup” by giving her husband a new brand of coffee instead of the usual one, she managed to buy a coat. of furs as well as a brand new Rolls-Royce.

Albacete Balompié, which this year does not aspire to such ostentation, entrusts its fight to remain in the Second Division precisely to this “cup by cup”; to continue scratching points away from home, even if it is through draws like the last two achieved away from Carlos Belmonte, and then try to become stronger in their fiefdom by adding three by three.

His coach Rubén Albés said it in the preview, right now his team is in a way in which it must get points whether it is good, bad or regular games and, despite the fact that the draw against the bottom team last Sunday may know little or, for some, very little, well it is in that relentless fight that, from now until the end of the campaign, will be the fight for salvation.

And, when five months have accumulated without winning away from home, only seven points have been achieved as a foreigner in fourteen games and the distance with the relegation places is limited to a single point, any game becomes a final and any positive income that is achieved will be more than welcome. And in that we agree with the Galician coach of the whites, each point is “caviar”. It is clear that there are draws and ties, but that is more the result of the objective or subjective sensations that each one may have about the image of the team than really the tangible nature of the result.

If the 0-0 score three days ago at José Zorrilla tasted almost like glory and the 1-1 against Amorebieta has been labeled a failure, when in reality they add up and are worth the same in the table, how would it be valued with one more day played? a draw against Sporting de Gijón? It is likely that, regardless of the team’s performance, most Alba fans would consider it very positive. Something that, in the end and as the Vigo coach also indicated, will mean that in a certain way, one will be missing or losing respect for an Amorebieta who, to give a couple of examples and without leaving the Asturias that the Albacete got a point from their visit to El Molinón, a point that 99% of the white fans would sign today and before the game, and another one at the Carlos Tartiere, the latter field from which Alba left humiliated. Therefore, everything that means not leaving El Molinón-Enrique Castro “Quini” empty will be positive, leaving aside the chapter of sensations.

For this match, and just as happened in Lezama, things are complicated for Albés, especially in the containment area. Although he recovers Cristian Glauder after his suspension match, the absences of his two full-backs: Álvaro Rodríguez and Julio Alonso due to injury, and that of the fundamental all-rounder in the Olympic coach’s schemes, Lander Olaetxea due to an accumulation of yellow cards, complicate the game plan of an Albacete that will also face a team that makes verticality one of its greatest virtues.

The La Mancha coach was asked if Rai Marchán could be the natural replacement for the Biscayan, but in his response Rubén Albés hinted that they are two different players. In this way, it would not be surprising that even a player like Juan Antonio Ros, who after being put on the winter transfer window finally remained at the club, could be rescued for the position of defensive pivot or third center back just as he already did in his stay in Lugo with Albés himself. Another option could be to delay Agus Medina to that midfielder.

As for the red and white team, they have perhaps their worst streak of results of the entire season, adding three defeats and a draw in the last five games and, if we leave aside that very special match that is the derby against Real Oviedo where they managed to win 1-0, Miguel Ángel Ramírez’s men have not achieved a victory at home since last November when they clearly beat Eldense. This has caused them to fall from the Play-Off positions that they had been regularly occupying in recent months.

The bad image exhibited by the Asturians during their visit to El Plantío in Burgos last week could mean that, after several tests, Sporting will return to their usual 4-4-1-1 or 4-4-2 formation with which they they feel more comfortable.

The sportinguista coach will not be able to count on Víctor Campuzano whom he does not want to “risk” nor with the injured Christian Rivera, Cali Izquierdoz, Gio Zarfino and Rubén Yáñez.

Different Sporting clubs have made a call to receive and support their team against Albacete, so a great entrance is expected, as is quite common in the oldest stadium of Spanish football (almost 116 years old).

The referee appointed by the Technical Committee of Referees to direct this match is the 33-year-old Valencian Iván Caparrós Hernández who, with the season in progress, completes his third campaign in the Second Division after spending seven more in the defunct Second Division “B ”.

Caparros Hernández has coached Albacete Balompié five times, three of them in the silver category; one last season and another two in the current one: against Leganés in Butarque and on January 20 against Alcorcón in Belmonte, both of which suffered defeats in these last two games. The total balance is two games won, one tied and the last two lost.

For its part, the team from the capital of Turia did justice to Real Sporting de Gijón on six occasions; all in the Second Division, the Asturians not knowing defeat with this referee on the field adding three victories and three draws, the last of them in the only match coached in the current season: Sporting de Gijón 1 – Amorebieta 1 on matchday 15 .

Javier García Lorenzo and Christian García Andreu, also from the Valencian Committee and regulars with Caparrós Hernández, will be the assistant referees, while the Guipuzcoan Gorka Sagués Oscoz will be on the VAR, curiously the same as what happened in the last match against Alcorcón.

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2024-02-29 22:47:41
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