Arenas: Aiming for Third Straight Win | [Sport/Team Name] News

The saying goes that ‘there are no two without three’, and that is what Arenas will try this weekend on their visit to Galician territory to face Pontevedra (Sunday, 6:15 p.m.). After two victories of enormous merit achieved against Ponferradina and Bilbao Athletic, the team led by Jon Erice wants to continue surfing the good wave and win a precious prize in the form of three points that would be the definitive confirmation that the historical team can aspire to something more than saving the category.

In fact, right now Gobela’s team is one of the best teams in the entire First Federation, as its own coach reminds us before leaving for Galicia. «There are only two teams that have won the last two games, which is Real Murcia and us. And in this week’s results, of the forty teams in the category, only two have won by two goals difference: Sabadell and us,” argues Erice.

Some data that confirms the very good sensations that have been transmitted from the green for several weeks now. “The team feels good, they are confident, they are in a good moment of form,” assesses the head of the Gobela bench, who also points out that “we know that these two remaining games – before the Christmas break – are very important for us.” Arenas already has 21 points in its locker and has managed to open a gap of four over relegation, but it is also three away from the noble zone. “This speaks to the fact that we are doing well, but also to the tremendous equality that exists in the category,” says Erice.

Variety

Being able to win a prize in the form of points from those two remaining duels in 2025 is the great objective of the ARENA team, totally focused on trying to achieve a second victory away from home in Pasarón against a rival that is also in good shape. And Rubén Domínguez’s Pontevedra, also with 21 points in its locker, has only lost one of its last eight league games, and has also just won the Galician derby at home last day against Celta Fortuna in Balaídos, a fiefdom where no one had managed to do so yet. A rocky team, experienced and marked by its ability to adapt on the fly to match situations.

«Of them I highlight the variety they have. It has players who adapt to different tactical positions. In recent weeks, watching his games, he has had tactical variety in all of them, playing with a line of five, with a line of four… he has good attackers from the second line and wings that are hard-working and, at the same time, are dangerous,” Jon Erice lists.

«Their matches are very even, no one clearly surpasses them in terms of play, no one subdues them too much and they are always capable of generating goal situations with arrivals from the second line. They do it in every game and against any rival,” warns the Navarrese coach. “For us, it is a huge challenge to go to Pasarón and try to play a good game.”

Maintain identity

With this panorama ahead, one of the keys to being able to carry out this duel will be for Arenas to be able to maintain the scoring success of the last two days, in which they have scored five goals. But, also, and although “it is a cliché, defensive concentration is also key,” he points out. «I think it’s going to be a game in which we’re not going to have many chances either, because nobody creates too many scoring situations for them. We need to be very certain,” claims Jon Erice.

The rojinegros coach insists that Pontevedra “is a team that is capable of varying within the same game, with the same players on the field and without making changes. “They have a tactical variety that I really like and that their coach knows how to exploit very well.” But given that, Erice prefers to focus on finding a way to “be able to impose our game and our style.” “We want to go there to try to win, but above all to continue being ourselves,” he says.