The French extended Zaragoza’s good start

With a solitary goal after half an hour of Alexander French he Real Zaragoza extended his good start this season by defeating the Real Valladolidunsuccessful in the attack and still complete in the new category, and added their second consecutive victory.

The clash was dominated by the locals who overcame a serious and tough opponent but still assimilated his fall into the second category of Spanish football.

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Both teams came to the match with identical numbers, after adding three points in the first match of the championship, against Villarreal B, in the case of locals, and against sporting gijonto the visitors, with two goals in the locker.

Saragossa

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Valladolid

Real Zaragoza: Christian; Fran Gámez, French, Jair, Nieto; Francho, Aguado, Toni Moya (Jaume Grau, min.82), Maikel Mesa (min 91. Germán Valera); Bakis (Mollejo, min. 82) and Azón (min. 72, Bermejo).

Real Valladolid: stubborn; Luis Pérez, Boyomo (Joni Montiel, min. 58), Quintana, Escudero (L. Rosa, min. 46); Monchu, De la Hoz; Moro (Kennedy, min. 46), Iván Sánchez, Tunde; Cedric (Sergio León, min. 58)

The objectives: 1-0, M.31: French.

Referee: Ávalos Barrera (Catalan Committee). He showed yellow cards to Nieto (m.14), Cristian Álvarez (m.82) and Sergi Enrich (min. 97) from Real Zaragoza and Iván Sánchez (m.45) and Quintana (m.84) from Real Valladolid.

Incidents: The match equivalent to the second day of LaLiga Hypermotion, played at La Romareda municipal stadium in front of 21,023 spectators.

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The rivalry has also sparked interest in the test of two historic clubs seeking to return to the gold category this season, with Real Zaragoza very renovated in summer and a Valladolid recently dropped unwilling to spend more than one campaign on Second.

On the field, Fran Escribá repeated the eleven he lost against the Villarreal subsidiary, while Paulo Pezzolano introduced a single change to his starting lineup, Quintana for Rofino at center back.

The match began with both squads measuring themselves and testing the mettle of the rival, with forays such as Francho’s star, in the 3rd minute, Escudero’s shot into the cloud, in the 6th minute, and the free kick that Si Monchu violently threw from the left side that put Cristian to work.

He Valladolid they pressed, while Zaragoza responded with chances, the two most obvious, a shot from Moya that hit the left post in the 24th minute and, moments later, Azón’s almost solo chance, which went to a corner.

Precisely, this corner kick was the reason for the first goal of the game, in the 31st minute, the work of the French squad player after taking advantage of the corner kick inside the area and putting the locals ahead.

The goal led to a rough final period of the first half, during which there was a continuous stoppage, the longest, for the referee to ask VAR to review a possible penalty in favor of the visitors which, in the end, was not he agreed. .

With these breaks, including for refreshments, and at least 9 minutes of extra time, the first half ended with the blanquillos winning the minimum and the second half ahead promising intensity.

The players returned to the field to play the second half with temperatures above 30 degrees, on a hot night in Zaragoza that showed no mercy to the players and fans.

The most plugged-in locals were back on the field of play and theirs were the key occasions, including a low shot near the left post by Bakis, which went just wide, and the goal was disallowed in the 54th minutes for offside to Maikel Mesa.

In fact, the goal from the canary, who took advantage of a pass from Francho who walked in the area until he reached his feet, went up on the scoreboard, but the VAR that finally decided that it had to be annulled because in Mesa’s Illegal position.

After that, the game entered a period of rest, which was largely dominated by the whites, although Valladolid came close to leveling the score in the 75th minute, when a powerful shot from Iván Sánchez from edge of the area hit the crossbar.

From that moment on, the pucelanos controlled the game and the chances, but their effort was not enough to change the result that left them with three points in La Romareda.