1-2: Ramos’ double sends Real Zaragoza into relegation

Lugo got the win this Sunday in La Romareda with Chris Ramos as the main man as he was the author of two goals for his team, but especially his second point in the 97th minute, at the limit of the extension marked of the referee. .

When it seemed that the match would end in a tie, the Galician team, in one of the many cons involved in the second half and brought many risks, had a prize and a long ball taken from their area. allowed the forward, due to the untimely exit goalkeeper Cristian Alvarez, to score the winning goal with a long suspense that leaves the team from Zaragoza in relegation. The success achieved by Lugo caused all the alarm in Real Zaragoza, who added only two points out of a possible twelve.

The Galician team, on the other hand, has chained two consecutive wins and three days without defeat, bringing them closer to the top of the qualification table. After this defeat, the second in a row, the concern became clear in the ‘blanquillo’ club because no one knew that a similar start to last year’s campaign meant suffering for most of the season, no to fight for the above, but not come down.

The Aragonese team dominated from the start despite the fact that their coach Juan Carlos Carcedo used a system with three central defenders and two lines which, at first, seemed to contradict the idea of ​​playing offensively .

However, the two full-backs were almost two wingers who forced Lugo to work tirelessly in defence. In the first quarter of an hour, Maños had already managed two good chances, the first in the 8th minute with a header from Giuliano Simeone who deflected a defender with his body as he headed into the visiting net and the second in 14th minute. with a Sergio Bermejo shot from outside the box causing trouble for visiting goalkeeper Oscar Whalley.

However, from then on, and although he continued to dominate (almost 70% of possession in the first period), he lost his clarity of ideas and was no longer able to disrupt an opponent who only came into danger on one occasion in ‘ blanquilla’ goal but that was about to top the scoreboard as Chris Ramos’ header, from Jaume Cuéllar’s cross, hit the top of the crossbar of Cristian Álvarez’s goal.

As the first period seemed to end as it had begun, Simeone settled the mess in the area with several previous shot attempts in addition validated by VAR due to the referee’s inability to see the game and the visitors’ protests because He gave a two-minute extension and the goal came after that time.

The joy of the owners of the land was short-lived as Lugo was able to level the contest in the 56th minute after three minutes earlier Simeone, at the mouth of the goal, sent an aerial center by Fran Gámez to over the crossbar that will have put the match Very supportive of your team.

And if fate preceded the local goal, it did so in the tie as Chris Ramos’ header hit center back Jair Amador and the ball’s trajectory deflected into the net.

With the fall of the Aragonese team, Lugo’s weaknesses became dangerous. In the 63rd minute Cuéllar stood on the spot and fell after contact with Manu Molina which the referee did not see enough to signal a penalty, in the 71st minute a powerful shot by Josep Señé went near the post and in the 75th minute it was first the ball. of Zaragoza’s goal without finding a finisher.

On the other hand, the locals were unable to create chances because all their actions were dominated by haste, so Hernán Pérez’s team barely suffered to keep the equalizer and grab the three points from La Romareda.

Lugo had a chance to win the match against Angel Baena in the 96th minute but his shot went wide, only against Cristian Alvarez. The prize for the visitors, who deserved to score then and won a fair victory, came in the last minute of extra time with Chris Ramos who, in an acrobatic posture, scored from distance thanks to the inexplicable that exit from the goalkeeper of the Aragonese team. .