Cartagena, with one less, defeated Zaragoza at La Romareda

He Cartagena sign victory over numerical inferiority in The Romareda (1-2) with a goal from Fontan in the 89th minute and breathe life into their fight for permanence by getting three golden points that prevent them from relegation, while the Royal ZaragozaApparently, he began to say goodbye to the dream of fighting for promotion to the First Division.

Efesé confirmed that it continues to be the most in-form team in recent days, which helped it, first to get out of relegation and later to stay out of it.

For the Aragonese team, which at the beginning of the day was five points away from the promotion zone, the defeat exposed that difference that grows in an almost insurmountable way depending on the results of the top half, taking into account the irregular trajectory this campaign maintains.

The ‘blanquillo’ team hopes to close the gap from today as it has to face three rivals from the lower zone (Cartagena, Villarreal b and Amorebieta), but at first his expectations crumbled like a house of cards with a puff despite playing throughout the second half with numerical superiority, quite the opposite of his rival, who with the victory took an important step forward to prevent descent.

The skilled team is racking up two consecutive defeats and losing momentum, making the promotion dream even more distant as it cannot win consecutive games that would suggest it would be possible.

Real Zaragoza started the match with fast and explosive play that allowed them to create two chances in the first six minutes.

The first was in the first minute with a counter and a cross in the area that found no finisher and the second came after a low cross from Francho Serrano that Iván Azón slightly touched and that Raúl Lizoain stopped on his way out.

That was the only gunpowder of the expert team, which had a gaseous effect as from then on the good positioning of its rival’s field of play prevented any possibility of causing danger.

The expert team lost in passes and more passes without finding spaces in which to filter the ball and always ended up using aerial centers which were stopped without problems by the Efesé defense.

The visitors also didn’t see ‘blanquillo’ goalkeeper Edgar Badía up close throughout the first half except on one occasion that ended in a goal. One hundred percent effective.

A counter attack by the Murcian team in the right lane in the 11th minute ended with a cross from Kilo Olivas into the area that Darío Poveda entered.

From there the Aragonese team tried to find chances but had no idea and their rival defended well but never got close to the skillful area again.

However, Cartagena lost a straight red card to Jairo Izquierdo in the 44th minute for an elbow on Santiago Mouriño during an attacking play reviewed by VAR.

With the amount of Jualián Calero’s team, the game became a Zaragoza monologue. The entire Aragonese team surrounded the Cartagena goal and accumulated opportunities, but sometimes the lack of goals and sometimes the goalkeeper Raúl Lizoain, especially the latter with two excellent saves in the 52 and 52nd minute, prevented them from scoring.

However, the story of the first period repeated itself as Zaragoza’s push was losing steam until the local tie came from a corner, made by Alejandro Francés, which Cartagena protested fiercely when they realized there was an earlier foul on the goalkeeper. although a VAR check ruled it out.

The goal gave renewed courage to the owners of the field, who once again sank their rivals in their place. However, the visiting team could have taken the lead again in the 86th minute when Arnau Ortiz was alone against Edgar Badía, who blocked the chance with his clearance.

This was the start of the 1-2, which came after three minutes by José Fontán, who took advantage of the rebound from the ‘blanquillo’ goalkeeper to send the ball into the net and give his team three very important points.