Rayo Vallecano will face the game this Thursday with a goal add the first victory of the year at RCDE Stadium and also achieve first victory in history against the Spanish far from the highest category, since in the past sixteen games they have lost eleven times and tied at five.
The first meeting of the two in the First Division was on October 16, 1977, at the Sarriá stadium. In that match, the Spaniard defeated Rayo 2-1 with a Jeremiah doublet, while for the Madrid team he scored Alvarito.
In the next two games, the equivalent of the 1978/1979 and 1979/1980 campaigns, the Spanish also achieved victory by 2-1 and 1-0, respectively.
In the fourth match, played more than twelve years later, on April 4, 1992, Rayo scored for the first time away from the Spanish by drawing (2-2) at Sarriá. To add to that point, the Madrid team will have to come back twice Momparlet and the Austrian Toni Polster the two goals recorded by the Russian Igor Korneyev for parakeets.
The last time Rayo visited the Spanish in the First Division was on February 9, 2019, when they lost 2-1 with goals from Borja Iglesias and Darder.
The only time Rayo beat the Spanish as a guest was in the Copa del Rey in 1980 and 2006 and in the Second Division last season, when the team from Andoni Iraola wins 2-3 with goals from Isi Palazón, Joni Montiel and Álvaro García.
At the party the next day, the two teams arrive in different situations. The Spaniard, with 39 points, is in the middle of the table and almost saved, and Rayo, with 34, has yet to win thirteen games in the league they have played this year.
Source: La Verdad
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