Avilés has to face the beginning of its nightmare today. The blue and white team travel to A Coruña to face Deportivo Fabril starting at 12:00, the team that currently occupies the play-out spot. The duel brings back very bad memories for the Avilesinos, since against the Deportivo reserve team a winding path began that is leaving the team led by Manolo Sánchez Murias very far from the objectives they had set at the beginning of the season.
And the Avilés nightmare began against the Galicians. In the first round match, which marked the start of the campaign for the blue and white, the players at that time under Emilio Cañedo took to the field with all their might. Suárez Puerta was bursting at the seams in a year that promised great things and the image that the team showed in the early stages accompanied all those expectations. Everything was going rosy, but in the 41st minute a bucket of cold water fell from which the Avilesinos have not yet gotten up. Edu Cortina struggled for a ball with a Deportivo Fabril player and, after stepping wrong, sprained his ankle. At that moment, no one expected that the absence of the Oviedo player would be such a hard blow, but the truth is that since that incident nothing has been the same again.
In that same game the change in the team was seen. With the pivot in the locker room, Deportivo Fabril managed to turn the result around and take the lead. Only a goal from Natalio, from a penalty, meant that the Galician team, a recently promoted team, did not leave with the three points of Suárez Puerta. But the worst was not that. Cortina missed the next match, a draw against another of the newly promoted teams, Racing Villalbés, and after completing the 90 minutes against Gimnástica de Torrelavega, the pivot felt discomfort again in the following match against Valladolid B and his loss was a mortal blow for Avilés. From there came a journey through the desert that still drags.
Now, after the blow that was the defeat against Ourense, in a match in which the blue and white team were clearly inferior to their rival, it is time to return to the good feelings. A victory in Abegondo seems like the key to not entering again into a dynamic that blows up the heads of Avilés footballers. Because if they get the three points today, Avilés can once again look at that long-awaited fifth place, the last of those that give access to the play-off. But if Sánchez Murias’ team does not manage to win, they would tie on points with the A Coruña reserve team and the lower zone would get even closer, with the fears that this situation can generate.
Part of the remainder of the season for Avilés will be played starting at 12:00 in Abegondo. The doubt in Sánchez Murias’ eleven is in the defense. After the defensive errors committed against Ourense, it remains to be seen how the Gijón coach fixes the situation. The possibility of seeing Julio again in the eleven, a player who has not been a starter for three games, gains in whole to the detriment of Orfila. The doubt is also at the point of attack, with Isma Cerro who continues fighting to remain in the nine position against Claudio who, after overcoming his physical discomfort, wants to regain his place in the eleven. Behind him will be Jorge, Natalio and Joel del Pino. The blue and white coach will not be able to count on Mauro and Valcarce, who are injured, nor on Néstor Serna, who yesterday had his first game of the Africa Cup against Nigeria.
El Marino, for his third scoring duel
El Marino faces one of the roosters in his group, Compostela, today at 6:00 p.m. in Vero Boquete. Sergio Sánchez’s men travel to Galician lands with the aim of continuing their good streak, since they have gone three consecutive games without defeat. Of course, the duel promises to be high-flying.
2024-01-14 03:06:00
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