2023-04-28 04:15:00
Oviedo faces the last five league games with salvation practically in their pocket and with one eye already on planning for the coming season. The focus is on Álvaro Cervera, in negotiations to renew with the blue team, but not all eyes are on the coach. The sports management is already at work, probing possible incorporations and seeing the needs that the team will have next year. The goal will be the protagonist.
In two ways. On the one hand, with the maximum support for Quentin Braat, today and now indisputable in Oviedo’s goal. The Frenchman, with a current contract, is along with Enrich the only signing of those who arrived in summer who is a starter. The numbers of his performance offer no doubts. In fact, the French goalkeeper has a colossal challenge within reach in recent days: winning the “Zamora” trophy with Oviedo, something that the blue team has not achieved for 51 years.
The last time a blue team goalkeeper was the least thrashed in a professional category was in the 1971/1972 season. The winner was Lombardy and Oviedo was promoted to First Division. The goal only conceded 18 goals. Braat is currently 16. At the club they are very happy with the Frenchman’s performance, a commitment from Rubén Reyes’ sports management in which Roberto Suárez and the current members of the technical secretariat actively participated. His ownership was one of Cervera’s first measures upon his arrival at Oviedo, which indicates the coach’s taste for the goalkeeper. But the club does not stop and one of the priorities in the summer market, in which the entity is already working, is to sign a guarantee goalkeeper. Tomeu Nadal will sign for Tenerife and the entity plans to go to the market. Despite the good role of Braat, established a priori as the starting goalkeeper, Oviedo plans to sign a guaranteed goalkeeper, who comes to compete for a position with the Frenchman and not as a theoretical substitute. The club was very close to signing a goalkeeper in the winter transfer window due to the departure of Tomeu, which ultimately did not materialize because Oviedo could not close his theoretical replacement. At that time the club tried to sign Cantero, who did not leave Eibar, and then focused its efforts on Morro, from Rayo.
He reached an agreement with the latter, but Martín Presa, Rayista president, did not answer Oviedo’s calls on time and did not give time to close the operation on the last day of the market. Those options, however, are not very strong right now. The club understood that Morro, who almost arrived, was a good option in January, but what is foreseeable is that another goal profile will be sought in the summer. In Oviedo they are very calm in this situation due to Braat’s performance, but it is a movement that they want to close in the early stages of the market. Meanwhile, Braat has five games ahead of him to win “Zamora”. He will have to play all the remaining matches, because to qualify for the title you have to play at least 28 and the Frenchman has 25. At the moment he is the leader and his main competitor is Raúl Fernández, from Granada, who has conceded 18 goals. If he gets the award, he will equal Lombardy, the only blue “Zamora”. There were two other Oviedo goalkeepers who managed to be the least thrashed: Óscar Álvarez in the thirties (on two occasions) and Caldentey in 1958, but the “Zamora” began to be awarded from 1959.
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