Sociedad Deportiva Ponferradina, with a more effective finisher, got three points in its visit to the Cartagonova stadium against a rival, Cartagena Football Club, who almost always took the initiative and made merits through the game and opportunities for not at least undefeated in front of his public.
The match that closed the opening day in LaLiga SmartBank, the Second Division of Spanish football, faced two teams that last season fought almost to the end to access promotion for promotion to the First Division and it became a controversial clash although there is something more terrifying. .
Efesé, with six of its 13 summer signings in the eleven -Iván Calero, Jairo Izquierdo, Damián Musto, Mikel Rico, Óscar Arribas and David Ferreiro-, started the match with great speed and decision. Proof of this was that Amir had to clear a shot by Iván Calero almost 1 minute and 20 seconds later and the following corner kick Mikel Rico ended up over the crossbar almost scoring the goal.
However, the goal also came in the opposite place soon, in the 7th minute. Derik Lacerda, one of the newcomers to Ponferrada -the others in the lineup are Adrián Diéguez, Moi Delgado and Kelechi Nwakali-, showed his strong step to get away from Pablo Vázquez and get into shooting position before appearing Toni Datkovic intercepted and beat Marc Martínez with a powerful Brazilian shot.
The team coached by the Portuguese José Gomes wanted to control the situation and continue the counterattack against a rival who insisted on attacking, but did not specify their arrival in the goal defended by the Iranian Amir Abedzadeh.
Pablo de Blasis, when in contact with the ball, created danger and the Argentine’s crosses looking for Alfredo Ortuño caused uncertainty in the Leon defense. Óscar Arribas also missed the shot with a pass from Jairo on a wonderful black and white occasion, nor did Iván Calero with an outside shot that almost hit the right post of the visitor’s frame.
After searching for it for so long, the goal came with De Blasis centering again and Mikel Rico coming from behind to launch himself onto the plate and connect a great header with his bald head.
With the tie tied and both teams looking to plant themselves in the rival area at full speed, the end of a very entertaining first half was reached.
That fast pace was maintained as the second half began and just five minutes in Ponfe struck again. Dani Ojeda, with a great shot from the edge of the area to a pass from José Naranjo, put the Bierzo team ahead again. Marc Martínez handles the ball but can’t keep it out of the goal.
1-2 affected the home team and, just after the first changes made by Carrión, in an action against Dani Ojeda he did more damage to the chaotic defense of Cartagena with his second goal in just ten minutes.
Francisco Feuillassier “Franchu” tried to close the gap, but closer to 1-4 was Sabit Abdulai with a shot that crashed into the left post of the black and white frame.
In the closing stages, Borja Valle had a good option to put his team in the match at least for a draw, although Marc Martínez also avoided a wider defeat against José Naranjo.
In the 87th minute, Borja Valle made it 2-3 in a set piece. De Blasis collected a corner headed by Pablo Vázquez and the Ponferrada-born attacker finished the goal that gave Efesé hope. Because of its origin, it was not celebrated.
Armando Sadiku, in a forced position, could have equalized but his shot went wide and moments after he saw how José Amo denied him the goal after escaping from the goalkeeper in a final game that turned into a harassment and demolition of Cartagena without a prize.
Source: La Verdad
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