Iván Fernández does justice for the Cacereño

Correct and willful, but without ‘duende’. No differential factor. This is how Cacereño showed himself this Sunday until the 80th minute, when Iván Fernández, dressed in his toga, did justice to give the three points to the Verdiblanco team against Navalcarnero at the Príncipe Felipe stadium.

Until that moment, Cacereño’s soccer claims had been more convincing than those of his rival, although insufficient. In the resolution of the match, black on white, as proven facts, Julio Cobos’ men showed their greatest push against a more conservative Navalcarnero who sought to play a long match sheltered by a line of five defenders.

Cobos’s team, which pressed every time the ball came out, gained control of the game over time, to the point of having serious indications in the first 20 minutes in the form of scoring chances, but in the end they didn’t crystallized into conclusive evidence.

The halfway point of the first half had not yet been completed when the referee Pérez Fernández, with a fatherly attitude, forgave the second yellow card to the visitor David Rodríguez, who later asked him with “cool head” gestures if he wanted to stay in the room. Likewise, the spirits of the Verdiblanco fans began to heat up from the bench when, at each goal kick, the Navalcarnero goalkeeper, Álex Fernández, made each action a kind of endless story in the face of the referee’s permissiveness. Meanwhile, the expeditious David Uña neutralized from the axis of the Madrid defense a good part of the rush of the dean of Extremaduran football.

Merenciano, who was the most incisive man for Cacereño in the first 45 minutes, had everything in his favor in the 41st against Álex Fernández, but the visiting team’s goalkeeper aborted his attack.

After going through changing rooms without changes in either of the two teams, Cacereño continued his proposal to step on the three-quarter zone to generate danger. Karim, with a cross shot, and Ruymán, with a free kick, tried unsuccessfully to convince the court to rule in favor of the locals.

It was in the 65th minute when Navalcarnero starred in his first shot on goal of the match in a clear chance by Miguel Muñoz, who stood alone against Iván Moreno. Later the worst minutes would come for a diminished Cacereño who began to show signs of physical fatigue.

The changes gave Cacereño oxygen, who finally presented as irrefutable proof the goal by Iván Fernández, who in the 80th minute cunningly took advantage of a rebound from the post inside the visiting area after a header from his teammate Samu Manchón to bring delirium to the stands of the green coliseum This action, in whose outcome three of the refreshment men participated, was initiated by Pedro Ramírez from the right profile.

Shortly after, both Garci and Iván Fernández himself had two chances to put more ground in between in the final stretch, a game in which Cacereño managed to add, for the second time in as many days, three points in a row and a new favorable sentence to stay in the lead.

Julio Cobos, during the match. / ARMANDO

“The changes have taken effect and have given us a plus”

The Cacereño coach, Julio Cobos, said in the press room that he was “happy with the game and the result”, despite the fact that his team wasted some opportunities: “We stole balls near their goal, but we were not able to hit. In the second part the forces were more even. The changes, once again, have taken effect and those who have entered have done so very plugged in. They have given us a plus.” On the other hand, he valued the entity of the rival: “This has just begun, but Navalcarnero is going to cause a lot of headaches.” Cobos justified Capa’s absence from the call due to pubic discomfort.