Cartagena added its first point at home against a conservative Elche

He Cartagenawith more desire than victory and at least the defensive order lacking, this Wednesday added its first point of the season at home – it lost four to Cartagonova – and drew 0-0 against a Elche conservative.

In this result the Ephesuswhich is the twenty-first and penultimate classified, can be under LaLiga Hypermotion Today, the eleventh, because it has seven points, and the franjiverde team sleeps in eleventh with 15.

Alejandro Castro ‘Jandro’, who, by the way, was sent off at the end, organized a defense with three center-backs and introduced four new features with respect to the eleven he showed in the match that lost 2-1 on Friday in Córdoba. Martín Aguirregabiria, Nikola Sipcic, Sergio Guerrero and Gastón Valles entered and Jorge Moreno, Andrija Vukcevic, Andy Rodríguez and Alfredo Ortuño left.

In it Elchewho had just beaten Sporting de Gijón 2-1, Eder Sarabia changed almost the entire team. Rounds went to everyone who started that match except for David Affengruber, Óscar Plano and Nico Fernández.

The meeting began with some warnings, although not too dangerous, from Óscar Plano and Elbasan Rashani And the chance that the local Luis Muñoz had in the 16th minute, but he did not solve it well in an action where he was injured. Bambo Diabiwho was replaced by Pedro Bigas after six.

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Elche

Cartagena: Pablo Campos; Aguirregabiria, Kiko Olivas, Alcalá, Sipcic, Jairo (Vukcevic, m.64); Musto, Sergio Guerrero (Andy Rodríguez, m.75), Cédric Teguía (Hugo González, m.75), Luis Muñoz; and Gastón Valles (Alfredo Ortuño, d.82).

Elche: Saint Roman; Mario Gaspar, Affengruber, Diabi (Pedro Bigas, m.22), Álex Martín (Rodrigo Mendoza, m.56), Rashani; Cristian Salvador (Álvaro Núñez, m.82), Gerard Hernández (Aleix Febas, m.46), Óscar Plano (Agustín Álvarez, m.56), Nico Fernández; and Sory Kaba.

Objectives: nothing

Referee: Oliver de la Fuente Ramos, from the Castilian-Leonese committee. He showed the yellow card to the local Kiko Olivas (m.13) and the direct red card to the coach and the delegate of Cartagena, Jandro and Simón Ruiz (m.92).

Incidents: Match corresponding to the eleventh day of LaLiga Hypermotion football played at the Cartagonova stadium in Cartagena before 5,637 spectators, more than half a thousand of them evacuated from the nearby town of Elche. Before the start of the match, a minute of silence was observed in memory of Manuel Ángel Balaguer, a sports journalist from Cartagena, who died on Friday at the age of 67.

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Once again Luis Muñoz, finishing in the air when the goal was almost called, almost made it 1-0 in a match without a clear dominator. Sorry Kaba, without a goal, he also had a chance to make it 0-1 but couldn’t find the goal. Before the break, Gastón Valles tried it with a shot when the pass to Luis Muñoz was three quarters of the goal. He didn’t pick well and with the tie players from both teams retired to the locker rooms.

At the restart, Elche started superior and David Afengruber soon, in the 4th minute, he hit the ball against the crossbar with a header after a corner kick. The Alicante team did not let up and continued to look for a goal that would favor them even though they lacked clarity in attack.

Efesé held on and as the second half progressed, they stretched, creating danger Luis Munoz -Miguel San Román defeated him in another one against the other- and Gastón Valles -was entertained in another similar action-. Eder Sarabia’s men, for their part, fell apart and hardly caused any trouble again until the 92nd minute when Agustin Alvarez He had a free kick that went over the crossbar. With that action and the double expulsion of Jandro and the delegate of Cartagena, Simón Ruiz, both protesting at the same time, the conflict in the stadium ended. Cartagonovawhere the black and white kept a clean sheet for the first time in this championship.