Borja Sánchez is back. This time yes. The set-up required special care so that the history of Albacete was not repeated. You know, the appointment in which Bolo was played continuously and for which the midfielder forced his recovery. He played at Belmonte, felt some discomfort but finished the game. He couldn’t have gotten worse: the team fell, Bolo was fired and Borja Sánchez had relapsed. Now, one month and ten days later, the talented attacker points to Cervera’s plans.
The coach confirmed yesterday that Borja Sánchez’s will be the newest face on a list that once again presents casualties. There are the injured Miguelón, Javi Mier and Koba Koindredi, who have been joined by Aceves and Montoro in the last two weeks. And there is one more loss, that of Viti, who has not trained with the group in any session and will miss the appointment against Mirandés.
In return, the most unbalancing footballer among the blues returns, although for the moment with nuances. “He will enter the list, yes. He is not yet to play 90 minutes but he can enter the rotation,” announced the coach. “In Ponferrada he did not travel because he was not expected to play and we prefer that he stay, because in the end you run the risk of playing 3 minutes and things get complicated. We did not want to take risks,” he added.
With Borja, Oviedo wins much more than an unbalancing player on the left. He recovers a piece that is called to make a difference in Cervera’s plans. This was recognized last week by the coach himself, who took the opportunity to clear up doubts about his position on the field: the left wing. Cervera seeks to create a union Oviedo, one of those teams that chokes the opponents and takes advantage of the options that fall to him in attack. But a footballer like Borja fits perfectly into his script. Because of that ability to unbalance and because he remarkably values his closed crosses from the left wing. Those same ones that last season served Bastón some goals on a tray.
Borja is the best news in a process of physical recovery and results from which the coach seeks to get out. Because Cervera is clear about it: the moment Oviedo puts its head out from under, confidence will make the legs work better. And in that escape plan from problems, the Tartiere is essential. “Teams that want to achieve something have to base their objective on their field. Trying to achieve your objective away from home is a lottery. We have to become strong in our field. We have already won twice: we were lucky with Málaga and we managed to overcome against Granada in a game that became complicated. We have to start winning at home and that what we take away helps us achieve a greater goal, but we will only come out from behind by winning home games”.
Self-management on penalties
Cervera is questioned in the press room about his orders for penalties. Juan Antonio Anquela had a maxim: whoever fails loses the turn. Thus, Oviedo was rotating pitchers during his time as blue coach in each execution failure. Cervera does not share that theory. Actually, neither that nor any other. Because, he explains, he believes that the pitcher is a matter that the footballers themselves must assume.
This is how the coach puts it: “It still sounds bad, but it’s not my job to decide who takes the penalties. Borja (Bastón) had to shoot it from Ponferrada. If I say someone else should shoot it and it fails… we already have a chicken set up. Taking penalties is not a question of what the coach says, but of confidence.”
