The Sestao River gets stuck in the bottom field

Sestao River starts the year on the wrong foot. The Left Bank team fell 1-0 in Santa Ana against Tropezón, a team that had only won one game this season. The Sestaotarras lacked the mordant that characterizes them and a lot of inspiration in attack. In addition, they were also really short of gasoline in the final section. Perhaps due to the period without training due to the numerous cases of covid-19 in its staff and the subsequent Christmas break. Javi Delgado took advantage of this fatigue of the Sestaotarras to score the only goal of the game in injury time and take the victory.

Those of Aitor Calle visited the bottom row with the obligation to win to re-occupy the play-off positions and not detach from the list for the leadership. Far from reality, the Sestao River is anchored in sixth place, eight points behind first place. The first half was very tepid, without goals. The green-black box was the clear dominator of the game, although the first dangerous action was carried out by the Tropezón at eight minutes, with a crossed shot by Javi Delgado that left brushing the left post of the goal of Rabanillo, who made his debut as goalkeeper for Sestao River to the detriment of a Barandiaran who this time had to watch the game from the bench.

That was the only time that the Tanos had the option to go ahead. From that moment on, all the occasions belonged to the Sixers. After the first quarter of an hour, the referee invalidated a goal to Aritz Pascual for offside. The team’s top scorer tried his luck twice more in the first half, although without much effectiveness. The clearest action was at 33 minutes when a Juste center hit Entreca and Mario Fernández had to make a great stretch so that that rebound did not sneak into his goal. The scoreboard did not move at halftime.

Derrota ‘in extremis’

In the second half, everything followed the same script. There were few occasions and the Sestao River continued to take the lead. However, as much as he had the ball, he could not hurt his rival. In fact, the Tropezón had more approaches to the opposite goal. Javi Delgado was able to score the winning goal for the Cantabrians in the 85th minute in a good maneuver by Javi Delgado who ended up shooting high almost from the small area. However, the winger was able to remove the thorn shortly after executing a combinative action of his own and beating Rabanillo to score the winning goal. A hard blow for the green and black.