Gaspar and the scoring return of Djuka keep Sporting on a direct rise: from the great start, to the doubts dispelled with a Balkan cry (2-0)

2023-11-27 23:59:04

He started well, broke the game early and struggled before finishing thanks to the scoring return of one whom few were already expecting. Sporting added a hard-fought victory against Eldense to chain their fourth week in second place and return to the path of victory after two consecutive draws. Gaspar scored his eighth goal of the season in the same minute of the match, but the rival team went into half-time with merit for having achieved the tie. Ramírez’s team held on amid doubts, until Djuka, like Campuzano did weeks before, emerged to score the goal of tranquility. El Molinón ended up making a splash against a team that, this year, has everything going its way. Or almost everything.

1-0min. 8: Gaspar y 2-0, min. 69: Dive.

Sporting

Yáñez (1);
Guille Rosas (2), Cali (1), Insua (2), José Ángel (2);
Otero (2), Nacho Méndez (2), Varane (1), Gaspar (2);
Villalba (1), Djuka (2).

Changes

Hassan (1) by Fran Villalba, min. 46; Roque Mesa (1) by Varane, min. 46; Róber Pierby Guille Rosas, min. 63; Queipo (1) by Gaspar, min. 75 and Campuzano (sc) by Otero, min. 83.

Eldense

Zubiaurre (1);
Tony Abbot (1), Carlos Hernandez (1), Pineapple (1), Poloni (1);
Cris Montes (1), Sergio Ortuño (2), Timor (1), Chapela (1);
Juanto Ortuño (1), Soberón (1).

Changes

Andone (1) by Cris Montes, min. 59; Clemente (1) by Juanto Ortuño, min. 59 ; Arnau Ortiz (1) for Chapela, min. 70. Álex Bernal (1) by Soberón, min. 80 and Salcedo (1) by Toni Abad, min. 80.

Referee: Ávalos Barrera (Catalan C.). He admonished the red and white Varane and the visitors Toni Abad and Carlos Hernández.

El Molinón Enrique Castro Quini: 14,892 spectators, according to official data.

Sporting came out with many changes in its best version. Djuka, Nacho Méndez, Varane and Cali were the new additions to a team that was one step ahead of its rival in the first fifteen minutes. A margin that gave them the opportunity to open the scoring and thus break the block expected by Eldense. Villalba warned first, back in the center of the attack, behind Djuka. Otero went in almost as a winger to find the interior corridor towards the Valencian. He shot into the hands of a very active Zubiaurre in the first period. The next arrival was the first goal.

Eight minutes had passed when Gaspar dared to do what has been going so well for him this season. Sporting’s goal man looked for the door and what had to happen happened. About five meters from the front, he armed the left to end up helped by Carlos Hernández. The former blue defender deflected the shot just enough to make the Eldense goalkeeper’s stretch useless. Eight goals from Gaspi already. Tremendous. The rojiblancos, intense, dynamic, with full control of the ball and the game, seemed to slow down and then Juanto Ortuño emerged.

The Eldense forward had the tie in two shots, almost consecutive, that were licking the post after two losses by Djuka and Cali at the stroke of fifteen minutes. There was a third option for the Alicante team, shot by Soberón. Yáñez blocked, but the ball remained dead in the small area. Otero’s quick intervention prevented Juanto Ortuño from making good that third time’s a charm. It was the most difficult moment for Sporting, who emerged from their lethargy after half an hour. Two long shots, from Villalba and Gaspar, renewed the offensive presence of a team that seemed to have lost the ability to surprise after the Alicante team advanced their line of pressure. Miguel Ángel Ramírez moved to rest

Roque Mesa replaced Varane, who had seen yellow, and Hassan took Fran Villalba’s place to return Otero to the point of attack. The match, designed from the beginning to try to overcome a rival sheltered in their field, now asked for other things. The scenario, due to the result and proposal of Eldense, is different. The visitors recovered the ball and presence in the opposite field at the beginning of the second half with Gaspar adding new attempts to open a gap on the scoreboard. It was, however, an uncomfortable Sporting, predictable, at times, too static. Eldense turned to Andone to renew the attack and Cris Montes, a guaje from Mareo who played as an opponent in his first game at El Molinón, left. He received the applause from El Molinón. There was half an hour left and the game was unknown.

Róber Pier then replaced Guille Rosas and Insua took over at right back in a strange change taking into account the availability of Pascanu, the usual replacement for the right side. An attempt was made to cheer up the Gijón team with a couple of starts from Roque and Hassan. El Molinón came back online to cool down the rival reaction. And when few expected him, after a game of living throwing cuts and responding to grabs, Djuka returned to clear up Sporting’s doubts.

Hassan set up a counter and saw the Serbian open up to the right side. He passed a ball that had apparently fallen short. Especially for a footballer with so much confidence in his right leg. Djuka had the advantage that no one came out to overtake him with speed, he waited and chose the usual one, the right hand. With it he once again scored one of those complicated goals that he is so accustomed to, from the very peak of the area, in front of the northern end, hitting it with his soul and nailing it to the opposite post with as much violence as the fans had been waiting for a long time to see him score. Balkan fury looking at the stands, the team’s calm recovered to add another week in second place. Eighth consecutive unbeaten game, seventh in the League. The streak is still so alive and El Molinón, as Ramírez promised, was worth staying up late before getting up early with the team in direct promotion.