The causes are analyzed. He trains over and over again. They talk during the week and try to correct it, but it’s a fact. The goal is costing Oviedo serious trouble. The lack of it, rather. The blue team is going through an important bump –a victory in four games– that had its last stop in Cartagena (2-1). Cervera’s team managed to score a goal despite the bathroom in the first half. Difficult to ask for more, since the Carbayón team has not managed to score more than one goal in any game. Cartagonova was no exception and what started as an anecdote is already an unwritten and unique rule in Spanish football. There is no team in First or Second that has that mark. All, except Oviedo, have managed to score at least two goals in one of the matches played in the domestic competition.
The Carbayón team has been incapable, being one of the causes of the team’s ills in a campaign in which it looks down. Oviedo has only 18 goals: it is the one that scores the least in the entire category. Even so, it is far from relegation, proof at least that the defensive shell is paying off. There is a revealing fact about the loss of scoring production. At this point last year, Oviedo had scored 33 goals, almost twice as many as now.
The lack of resources above worries the club and the coaching staff. Also the success. In the last defeats, against Villarreal B and Cartagena, there was an exception compared to other games. Oviedo had more arrivals. Against the subsidiary he treasured at least two occasions and against Cartagena he had three clear ones.
The goal came after a cross, where Cervera emphasizes and where, despite taking little advantage of them, Oviedo stands out: it is the third in the League that most shipments from the band make. In the internal analyzes carried out by the club, the lack of a goal from the center of the field is explained. It costs Oviedo a world to braid plays, they have lost their wardrobe compared to last year and they have also been without Borja Sánchez for a large stretch of the season. It is not, they say in Oviedo, a matter of not having a scorer: Bastón, now injured, has 8 goals, almost half of the total number.
With the Madrid player’s injury, this week the spotlight is once again on Sergi Enrich, on paper his substitute, who has scored two goals this season. The Menorcan was sent off against Villarreal B for an angry protest. “A mistake,” Cervera described what happened. It remains to be seen if the Admiral, who is planning a change to seek a reaction, gives Enrich a chance again, who left a bad taste in the fans’ mouths for that play. There are not many more tactical options left for Cervera: there is no other natural center forward in the first team. Yes at Vetusta, with Masca in the dynamics of the first team and waiting for his turn to enter a call with Cervera. The other option, more improbable, would be to put Vallejo back to nine. All changes are possible to finally break a losing streak of record and be able to score more than one goal.