The opinion behind Sporting-Oviedo: A story that only deserves clichés

Sporting lasted as long as the push that the team that plays at home has to show at the start. Oviedo played their game: wait, let the rojiblancos show themselves and then take a step forward applying to the letter the recipe that Admiral Cervera likes so much: quick transitions to the wings and balls into the area. This is how Enrich’s goal came. A great cross from Abel Bretones from the left, the blue striker wins the duel against a soft Bruno and an unstoppable header for Cuéllar, Courtois or Gato Ablanedo. Enrich has insisted on demonstrating that there is life, and a good one, without Van Bastón. Everything was aimed at the fact that those of (almost) always would not want to have dinner.

But this time, after weeks of official and unofficial complaints about the arbitrations, the VAR sided with Sporting. Penalty and draw. The equalizer did not give way to an exchange of blows. Quite the contrary: the game began to decline and the show, always in quotes, became a kick to follow and a “van” of contact. The one that posted the most at that time was Sporting, but those from MAR, with or without #hashtag, give what they give.

In the end, the Torneo de Barrios, after the blue victory in the first round, goes to Oviedo. Sporting still doesn’t know how to win derbies (one victory in twelve games), and little else. The best, the party outside, without known incidents at the time of writing these lines, and that there are only two days left to close the season. Sad comfort no matter how they get. And now? Well, summer will come and the collective amnesia implanted in the DNA of soccer fans will do its job.

No one will remember that Oviedo de Cervera made up the season thanks to the five consecutive victories that they won in the final stretch of the season. Sporting has little left to make up. Add two consecutive campaigns playing with fire and installed in mediocrity in a category already made of tin, although marketing experts want to pass it off as sterling silver. Reality is that sad and you have to adapt to it. Next season, another two derbies guaranteed. There will be fourteen. And at this rate, with nothing to celebrate in the rojiblanca trench, did you hear, dude?