La Peña Deportiva took a firm step this Sunday in its objective of securing the ‘play-off’ for promotion and did so with a key and prestigious victory, to win in Santa Eulària against Hércules de Alicante by 2-0, in a match in which the peñistas clung to the epic to get the three points, given that they had to play with one player less from minute 60 due to Miranda being sent off for a double yellow card. And it is that those from Villa del Río not only knew how to defend tenaciously with tooth and nail the 1-0 score that reflected the score in the decisive stages of the game, but also the locals enjoyed the best chances in the second half, despite being in numerical inferiority, and they finished off the job by making it 2-0 at the last minute of discount.
The Sports Club He started the duel strongly and took an early lead on the scoreboardfive minutes into the game, in a corner kick that Estellés finished off anticipating at the near post with a header that sent the squad to make it 1-0.
The Santaeulaliense team has an advantage in the score He offered a game gale and went for the Alicante teamcoming to have enough dangerous occasions in the first quarter of an hour to have increased their advantage, but neither Chema Moreno, in the 7th minute, nor Fraile, in the 13th minute, nor Cámara, in the 15th minute, hit the ball. send the leather to the net, upon encountering three providential interventions from the Herculean goalkeeper Carlos Abad.
However, an error when the ball came out from behind the supporters clubs led to a double chance to score for the visitors, in the 18th minute, in which the local goalkeeper Edu Frías was huge under the sticks to save his team with two consecutive saves from shots by Alvarito and Jean Paul.
The Hercules awakens and dominates
From then on, Hercules took control of the ball and it was better until the break, although they did not have any more chances or disturbed the domain of the peñista goal too much.
After the intermission, Hercules came out willing to tie and dominated the game, especially following Miranda’s expulsion for a double yellow card, in the 60th minutealthough, nevertheless, with one less on the field, La Peña did not lose face in the game and enjoyed several counters, between minutes 61 and 67, in which they could have sentenced the clash, but neither Colomina nor Chema Neither Moreno nor Sergio Montero managed to successfully finish their arrivals in the rival area.
Manolo González’s men then had to fight in defense and suffer harassment until the end of the Hercules match, which again and again ran into an enormous collective work by the supporters, who reliably aborted any hint of danger in their area , until in injury time, about to conclude the duel, Hercules scored a goal that was canceled as the ball went wide before the cross prior to Sergio Marcos’s shot.
That action passed immediately to a quick play by the Peña Deportiva that was resolved with a good internship by Lorenwho served a measured pass when Sergio Montero arrived from behind to make it 2-0, although he did not manage to push the ball into the goal mouth because it was the Alicante center-back Artiles who ended up introducing the ball into his goal when he tried to avoid the shot from the Santaeulaliense soccer player.
Thus, with this brilliant victory, Manolo González’s team entrenches itself in third place with 46 points and moves Hércules away from Alicante 12 points behind.
