The Sestao River does not get out of its jam far from Las Llanas

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Sestao River has been characterized throughout this season by its reliability and regularity. It has always done well in all types of terrain and circumstances. Proof of this is that they have the best point average in the group both at home -2.5- and away -1.75-. Numbers that serve to reign the table with ease, enjoying seven points away from the second classified, which is now Deportivo Alavés B.

However, he is currently going through a pothole far from Las Llanas from which he is having a hard time getting out. Last Sunday’s draw against Arenas (1-1) is the fifth consecutive away game for the green-and-blacks without being able to win. Since December 17 of last year, they have added four points away from home, by drawing against Beasain (0-0), Izarra (0-0), Alfaro (1-1) and Arenas (1-1), and suffering their only defeat at home against Tarazona (2-1).

At the end of the derby against the Getxo Tarras, Aitor Calle did not hide that “it is costing us away from home.” “We have very internalized that it is something in which we have to improve,” he expanded. Disappointed with some arbitration decisions such as the penalty against which Arenas scored and a goal in favor annulled for offside, the tie made him leave Gobela “with a bitter taste,” he acknowledged. Now he only thinks of taking “that little step to add three also outside.”

The objective of Sestao River is to promote directly to the First Federation as the first classified. This causes their demand to be maximum in each match and they are not content even with clinging to ‘the English average’ -winning at home and drawing away-. However, this traffic jam at home seems to be a dynamic that has also been repeated in the rest of the teams in the group since the start of the second round.

In the first three league games of this second round there were only two away victories. In these last two weekends, the number has increased to nine visiting wins out of the 45 games played, a figure that is still very low. This may be due to the fact that the teams are committed to becoming stronger at home to achieve their objectives, which complicates the task for visiting teams.

Artificial grass, unwanted terrain

In the specific case of Sestao River, there also seems to be another aspect that greatly influences their performance at home. This is the playing surface. And it is that the sestaotarras do not have such good records on artificial grass, where they have not won since the beginning of October. Their record on this ground is three wins, five draws and one defeat. While on natural grass it is two wins and a draw. In this sense, the positive thing is that there is only one visit left to synthetic grass -Mutilvera- and the other four are on natural grass.

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