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Sporting improves without the ball: victory was resisted against Mirandés, Burgos and Racing, the games with the highest percentage of possession

Abelardo did not want to point out that the cause of the traffic jam experienced against Racing has to do with the fact that Sporting assumed greater weight in the game with the ball. Pitu pointed out the bad game and the lack of intensity shown by his team, among other factors, to explain what was the first defeat of the season. The truth is that the data shows that the team chokes on this type of scenario. There are five days, it’s early and the numbers in football tend to be lies, but the Gijons have resisted victory as long as they had a higher percentage of possession than their rival. It happened against Mirandés (1-1) and Burgos (0-0). It was repeated against Racing (0-2). On the opposite side is the two comfortable victories signed against Andorra (4-1) and Ponferradina (1-3).

Diego Sánchez prepares to hit against Fernández. | Angel Gonzalez


For better and for worse, this Sporting is designed to counterattack. The team is better off with quick transitions, putting pressure on the opponent and trying to steal from advanced positions. In short, when the rival gets behind and has to move the ball, a certain discomfort appears. It is also true that it has coincided with the moments in which the team has had less success in front of the opposite goal. The first days have witnessed one and the other. The game against Racing left Sporting with the lesson of trying to find an alternative path to what is already intuited.

As for the matches in which they had more possession, Sporting began in Anduva with a minimal dominance over Mirandés (52%). The result resulted in a tie that could have been broken if Otero had not been annulled for offside at the request of the VAR. Against Burgos and Racing de Santander, the last two rivals to visit El Molinón, problems and possession increased. Against Burgos and Santander, the team reached its maximum, 65% control of the ball. Before the first they crashed again and again in front of the opposite goal to add a point. Before the seconds something similar happened, but receiving two goals on the counterattack that cost the first defeat.

The last two games at El Molinón have another curiosity that reflects, in turn, that Sporting is not a team that precisely drops goals. And that with his eight goals in favor, he is among those who score the most in the entire category. None of them came in the two matches in which he shot the most times, precisely against Burgos (18) and Racing (15). Milo arrived at the end of the market to increase the competition in a responsibility in which Djuka has combined games of absolute reference, with others of little or no effectiveness.

383 tickets for Zaragoza. Sporting will visit La Romareda on Saturday (9:00 p.m.) with the need to recover the good manners seen in the initial four days. The hands come from adding their first victory of the season in a difficult field like El Toralín (1-2). The Maño club has sent 383 tickets to Gijón at a price of 20 euros for those who are interested in supporting the team in Aragonese lands. Sporting will give priority to its members, who must register in the season-ticket holder area before 6:00 p.m. this afternoon. Each one can choose a maximum of two locations. If not all are distributed, the day after tomorrow, Thursday, they will go on sale to the public.

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