1-0: Real Zaragoza bid farewell to La Romareda with a win

Real Zaragoza closed out the current season at its La Romareda stadium with a victory over Lugo (1-0), something unusual for an Aragonese team that has been able to win just seven games at its stadium, including against Galicia, of the 21 games he has played.

After a campaign marked by a new setback, and nine years have passed since they were relegated from the First Division, the Aragonese team was at least able to finish in front of their long-suffering fans with a win that somehow doesn’t weaken the team’s bad season. but that, at least, It leaves less bitter taste in thinking about a 2022-23 course that will be marked by the illusion of the arrival of a new property that is expected to change the drift in which the Aragonese the club is immersed.

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José Ignacio Martínez’s team ‘JIM’, with victory, broke a consecutive five games without winning thanks to a single goal made by two substitutes at the break, Iván Azón and Valentín Vada, who gave the team breathed a sigh of relief in the second half although the Galicians ’downfall was also favored from the 57th minute due to the dismissal of Xavi Torres.

The anger between Zaragoza coach Juan Ignacio Martínez ‘JIM’, and the club’s sports director, Miguel Torrecilla, in the week before the final day of the match against Real Oviedo, and took place with Carlos Tartiere, seems there is an expiration date before the confrontation against the Galician team because the comparison to that meeting is hostile.

A sluggish Aragonese team once again gave a bad image against a more intense rival, who was more involved in the game and put more on the scale of the intensity of the game in the first half, which led to their superiority.

Rubén Albés’s staff, especially at the start of the match, had up to three chances to open the scoring.

The first, by Sebas Moyano, was saved by a very inspired Cristian Álvarez and the other two, by Chris Ramos and Sebas Moyano himself, lacked precision as one came out and the other was in the hands of the team’s Argentine goalkeeper who ‘white’.

On the other hand, the Aragonese team did not reach the rival area with little risk and their intentional shot came in the 41st minute through Sabin Merino, who approached the crossbar.

The half-time changes with the entry of Iván Azón and Valentín Vada gave the team more energy, who had a good chance in the 53rd minute through a shot by Sergio Bermejo that pasted the goalkeeper and went to the crossbar. .

However, the game didn’t rise by too many integers and the public, who whistled prominently to their team at half-time, applauded, as if it were a goal, the expulsion, the VAR by, to Xavi Torres and later. gave him the best round of applause of the night to Dani Lasure, who has not played an official match since December 2020 due to having cancer.

However, a great pass from central defender Alejandro Francés to Iván Azón allowed him to get into the area and give Vada a deadly pass to open the scoring in the 74th minute, which, ultimately, is the success, even if Lugo is married. of chances to match, in the 84th minute by a header from the crossbar of the recent joiner Leandro Antonetti and in the 87th minute with a shot from the post by Jaume Cuéllar.