Tuesday, March 26

Second chance at the Roman


Luis Acosta and Kamal, last Saturday against Unionistas. / JM Romero

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After having it a little closer a week ago, Mérida is looking for its first win of the course this afternoon against another rival of its level

PR Merida

Every day the streaks get fatter, one less day remains for them to deflate. Mérida scared away the ghost of the goal last Saturday; today it would be convenient for him to chase away the one of victory. Because he needs to win, once he has played his four games and all four have come out tails on the scoreboard. Winning calls for winning and Juanma Barrero’s team needs it for the shot of confidence and to get closer to the places of salvation and tranquility, which right now has one and three points respectively.

Since the season started, everything in the Merida team has revolved around this: to compete, to believe it, to score and to win. The first has succeeded; the second, almost; and the other two remain. He could not overcome a rival from his League seven days ago as Unionists and he will have to try harder this afternoon if possible against another rival of his level such as Pontevedra, who although they have only beaten Talavera in the first match of the castellanomanchegos, He has been able to tie Alcorcón and Riazor.

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“Last week we took a weight off our shoulders with Carlos’s goal (Cinta). We made more chances, we saw more shots, more arrivals … », Juanma Barrero confessed yesterday in the previous one. «What I want is for my team to know how to interpret when you have to go upstairs to press, as we did in the first part: with order, together. What I don’t like is going to press like in the second: with individual decisions, people jumping alone under that pressure, which causes a back and forth that is not productive. I don’t think we can dominate the games from that back and forth. When that happens, what we have to do is get together, spend ten bad minutes and then return to the game, but from solidity.

Merida-Pontevedra

  • Merida AD:
    Javier Montoya; Felipe Alfonso, Nacho González, Bonaque, Álvaro Ramón; Luis Acosta, Melendez, Kamal; Larrubia, Nando Copete and Lolo Pla.

  • Pontevedra:
    Alvaro Cortes; Bastos, Churre, Miguel Roman, Samu Araujo; David Soto, Yelko, Álex González, Oier Calvillo; Jon Bakero and Rufo.

  • Referee:
    Germán Cid Camacho (from the Castilian-Leonese school).

  • Stadium and time:
    Romano José Fouto, 17.00.

The Pontevedra coach is an old acquaintance from last year: Antonio Fernández, who with San Roque won at the Romano in the first round (0-1) and made the match in Lepe very difficult for Juanma’s team (0-1 ). “They will have a huge desire to get their first victory, so we will have to play with their need, which leads to haste and pressure,” said the Galician coach last Thursday at the previous press appearance. “Sounds like a good plan to me. Maybe we would also do the same, “Juanma answered yesterday.

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“Merida is a team that is very supportive in its effort and that defends very well in low blocks”, continues Antonio Fernández. «In addition, he travels very well with fast players and differentials above, but then he is also capable of carrying the weight of the match as in the first half last Saturday against Unionistas. We have to be us: have the ball and be protagonists. And then put some of the three or four whites that we have been having per meeting ». He will not be able to count on the injured Samu Araujo (defense) and Borja Domínguez (midfielder), but he will recover midfielder Brais.

For his part, Lluis Llácer is the only one out of Mérida due to a puncture in the abductors that they recommend stopping, “because he has been dragging discomfort for a few weeks and has not been completely clean.” Nando Copete has completed the entire week of training and is ready for the full match. The only one who has had to stop has been Viñuela, “due to a blow to the tibia that has caused a large inflammation in the area and he was in pain.” However, he has exercised with his teammates in the last two sessions and will enter the call.

“What he likes is to win and that is what we work for,” points out the coach from Mérida. “There are going to be times when we will have the ball and they will run after us and times when they will dominate us and we will have to suffer. But you have to get used to that. Every team has its moment in the game and that is what you have to take advantage of. Well so be it.

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