Córdoba visits Mirandés on their return to LaLiga Hypermotion with the firm intention of taking advantage of the situation that Anduva’s team is going through, with just fifteen players in the squad.to add three points and sign a good start. The white-and-green team has only had a couple of months to adapt to the new category, after achieving promotion to Second on June 23. with their victory at El Arcángel stadium against Barcelona Atlètic.
During this period, the Andalusians have remodeled much of their squad, maintaining a base from which they achieved promotion. and strengthening itself with young projects from both the bronze category itself and the Second Division. Thus, Players such as Obolskiy, Théo Zidane, Jacobo, Genaro and Carlos Isaac have arrived at El Arcángel to revamp a squad which, led by coach Iván Ania, will seek to certify its permanence as soon as possible after more than five years away from professional football.
The pre-season has brought doubts and certainties in equal measure, after drawing against Cádiz and Atlético Sanluqueño in a triangular; Rayo Vallecano in the II Puertas de Córdoba Trophy; and Recreativo de Huelva in the Colombino stadium; winning both trophies in penalty shoot-outs. But they also fell to a resounding 2-0 defeat against Málaga in the match that served as the culmination of the pre-season for the Málaga and Córdoba teams.
For this opening duel, Ivan Ania will not be able to count on either Kuki Zalazar or Isma Ruizafter both players have suffered physical ailments in recent days, so the Córdoba coach will have to opt to field many of the recent signings to face this first official match of the season.
The coach of Cordoba, Ivan Aniasaid on Thursday that “if there is a favourite, it would be Mirandés”, the rival they will visit on Friday and that “is a team established in the category”. The Asturian coach of Córdoba, in his press conference, has shown his “excitement” and his “desire for the competition to begin” after a “shorter than usual” preseason in which they have accused a certain lack of goals, but in which the Oviedo coach has stressed that they have also “conceded little” and have “generated, although they have not been successful”.
The Andalusian club has already noticed the main differences between the First RFEF and Second Divisionand Iván Ania has tried to instil them in his players, on issues such as the VAR, “which most are not used to” and generates “situations that are difficult to train”, or the impact of the category, although he hopes that the “enthusiasm and desire” of many of his players to debut in the category will compensate for these circumstances.
Ivan Ania seems to have already decided on his starting eleven for this league debutnot marked by the preseason, but by what they seek to “do” and “achieve” in Anduva, so he stressed that although all league games are important, this start “is more so”. The Cordoba coach will seek to maintain the same offensive football proposal shown in Primera RFEF, although he is aware that “the demand is going to be much greater” and that “the error penalizes you more, the rivals are stronger, faster and tactically better”, so he has explained that “the areas are fundamental” in a category “very equal beyond budgets” where “there are always moments for both teams”, he pointed out.
Regarding Mirandés, he explained that this situation they are going through “is not new for them”, since “they always look for transfers in the market” and, therefore, “it does not have to be something extraordinary for them”, while he hopes that many of the players they have signed in recent days will make their debut.
He added that the opponent is “an ultra-competitive team, regardless of who plays, because of the club’s DNA,” although he expects “an even match” and believes that they are “prepared to face this match despite the short preseason” and being aware that they still have some way to go to be 100 percent.
Mirandés starts the season in Anduva with a number of team members that is too fair And, given that the summer transfer window is still open, the club is confident that the reinforcements will arrive from next week onwards. But this situation is normal for a club that has had to reinvent itself every summer, but especially this time because in the offensive aspect, coach Alessio Lisci does not yet have enough players to face the season.
The preseason has not been easy for the wild boars either and although they have been defeated by inferior rivals such as Tarazona, they have also had good results against superior rivals such as Osasuna, until the lack of players prevented them from playing their presentation match in front of their fans in Anduva.
Probable lineups:
Mirandese: Luis Lopez, Corner, John Gutierrez, Postigo, Julius Alonso, Tachi, Lachuer, Queen, Tomeo, Gorrotxategi and Izeta.
Córdoba: Carlos Marin; Albarran, Lapeña, Martinez, Calderon; Genaro, Alex Sala; Carracedo, Jacobo, Adilson; and Obolskiy.
Referee: González Díaz (Asturian committee).
Time: 19.00.
Estadio: Anduva.
