Amorebieta faces its first outing of the season this Sunday (11:30 am). The stage will be a fiefdom with tradition, Florida, home of the Club Portugalete. The jarrillero team, like Laredo, is another recently promoted to the Bronze Division after defeating their ‘eternal rival’, Sestao River, in the express play-off in the summer. However, that he is a ‘rookie’ this season does not mean, far from it, that he will be an affordable rival. The ‘Portu’ has already presented its credentials in the category in the best of the scenarios: El Sardinero. The whole of the left bank managed to get a very important draw against Racing Santander at the Cantabrian Coliseum on matchday one, which always provides an extra boost of motivation. In addition, those of Iñigo Vélez de Mendizabal already know how the gualdinegros spend them, who defeated the zornotzarras (1-2) in the pre-season friendly clash played in Urritxe.
«They come from drawing at El Sardinero, and doing very well, too. They were well planted, even with one less. They showed that they are a very good team, “says Iñigo Vélez de Mendizabal. «They are a recently promoted team, yes, but looking at the squad they have, the game the other day and the preseason they have played, it is true that they have done very well, it is a very complicated team within the group ”, he adds.
The team led by Ezequiel Loza presents a renewed squad that has in its ranks already well-known players in bronze football, who bring quality and experience to a very ambitious group. Names like Gándara, Moya or the globetrotter Urko Vera they join young people with a lot of projection, such as Güemes, Salinas, Salado or Murua. The result is a Portugalete who likes to handle the ball and create play, seeking to take advantage of the speed of its attacking players. «They have made a good squad, with players with experience in Second B plus those who got promoted. It is a highly compensated team, as he demonstrated the other day in Santander, “says the coach of the blues.
Regarding the type of game that can be found on Sunday in La Florida, the Gasteiz coach assures that the Portuguese they have wickers «both to play on top and to combine. They have players with a lot of quality, the two styles may vary. I don’t think they will change the system compared to last week, but it is clear that they can choose direct or more combinative play. For example, the clash played by both teams in preseason, in which “as is normal because you are doing tests, during the first half they played in one way, and in the second they changed the system, and in the end they ended up beating us,” he says. the holder of the Urritxe bench.
The Amorebieta must show its best version in this first displacement of the course to get the second victory. To do this, you have to polish some details which he hinted at in Urritxe’s debut. Especially lack of concentration or intensity, as happened at the beginning of each period against Laredo. From there, work well on the pressure to try to snatch the ball from Portugalete and not let him play his game. «Portu is a very competitive team, it will be very difficult to get something out of your house», Also warns Aimar Sagastibeltza, who scored the winning goal last day. The Leitza center-back highlights that “I know most of the players and I know what they are capable of. They have a very difficult team to beat, they know very well what they play and are very competitive.
Hence, Vélez and his team have placed special emphasis during the week on recovering from the clash against Laredo, in which «the physical effort was incredible, the state of the field makes you end up destroyed. On a moral level, and after the high that was supposed to win in the last action of the match, «we are with I really want Sunday to come and go looking for another victory», Launches Vélez de Mendizabal.
Thus, the one in La Florida will be a very demanding match for which the Amorebieta coach will not be able to count on Jon Irazabal, one of the new faces of this season. The defender retired with physical problems against Laredo and will not be part of the game, since he suffers a fibrillar micro-rupture. Mikel Zarrabeitia, who missed the match against El Charles, will be a doubt practically until the last minute, since he still has some annoyances. «With our game, which is 90 minutes of maximum intensity, we can not risk», Explains the blue technician. In the ranks of vases, while Ezequiel Loza will not be able to count on Esteve Monterde, sent off with a double yellow in El Sardinero, nor with Txopi, injured.
Except for a last minute change by the authorities, the Florida clash may be disputed with the presence of 500 fans in the stands, who must comply with the sanitary protocol at all times. Access will be exclusively for members of the portuguese group, who must collect the tickets in advance at the club’s box office.
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