The tie allows Tenerife to continue in the race for promotion, although it loses places in the table; and Zaragoza takes off from the direct promotion positions. For both it was a lesser evil in a duel that had propitious moments for both teams: first for the hands, which came out in an imperial plan; and then for the islanders, who ruled the second half and came to the fore since they equalized on a penalty transformed by Milla.
Baraja barely introduced rotations in the starting eleven. Yes, Luis Pérez entered the place that Lluís López occupied in Almería; and the Catalan, in turn, moved to the rearguard to the detriment of Alberto. The surprise was the substitution of Bermejo, scorer and hero in the Mediterranean Games, to which the coach once again hung the label of revulsive.
Zaragoza came to the top of the emergency room in the Heliodoro. Puncture after puncture had dangerously weakened his candidacy for promotion and he had also been dismounted from second place by his neighbors in Huesca. So he was forced to win and his coach, who had coached Tenerife at the end of the last century, promised an irreverent version of his at Rodríguez López.
The game did not take long to face the Aragonese team in a very unfortunate action by Ortolá, who introduced the ball into his own goal after a poisonous service from Luis Suárez from the left. They had been a few initial measures of great voracity, as if Victor’s wanted to mark territory from the very beginning. In fact, he could increase his income if a good shot from Puado finds the intended destination in an action immediately after the 0-1. As in Almería, Tenerife had to come back but the rival was a roller. Almost a steamroller.
The same thing happened then as in the previous game, when Tenerife found itself with a penalty (for a takedown over Álex Muñoz) and Luis Milla showed that he never fails. In his third success from 11 meters after the pandemic, the Madrilenian brought the tables to the scoreboard and thus opened a new game, much more even and with a less dominating Zaragoza, but just as incisive when he approached Ortolá.
Changes were expected in the second half, necessary because both teams were very tight in strength, but it took a world for them to arrive first. Before they occurred, Dani Gómez had an excellent opportunity to unbalance the equalizer with a header that went wide (46 ‘). It was in the resumption when the best version of Tenerife was seen and it was Baraja’s team that with the greatest determination sought victory. But freshness was lacking and the coach looked for it by reeling Bermejo, who this time had only 18 minutes. It was not enough. And that Joselu had a clamorous opportunity at the edge of the end. The dream is still alive, although it is complicated.
Sipcic misses Alcorcón
The Balkan was sent off for a double yellow a few minutes from the end and will force Baraja to rebuild his line-up in the next game (Monday, 8:45 pm) at the Municipal de Santo Domingo against fellow contender Alcorcón.
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