Qualifying a match from Matchday 9 as final may tend to exaggerate. But this afternoon’s duel between Levante and Getafe looks a lot like him (follow the meeting live on As.com). That also the two coaches make their debut in a game of this size adds cinematic overtones to the stake that will be lived in the Ciutat de València. Granotas and azulones have been, along with Alavés, the worst teams in the first part of the championship. By score and by sensations. Zero victories for both, the most goals scored in the competition (13), never once kept the door to zero …
The numbers are obvious in two teams that have just fired their coaches but their feelings are much worse: weak teams, stiff, diluted in any adverse circumstance … The fact is that Javi Pereira and Quique Sánchez Flores have arrived on time to turn these dangerous dynamics around.
They are released at the same time. Catalan has bet on an old acquaintance: Pereira was second to JIM in the best Levante in history. Torres has done the same: it is Quique’s third stage as a azulón. However, while the Badajoz debuts today in the First Division, the Madrilenian accumulates 434 matches in the elite. Both squads have sharpened their teeth seeing that their eyes are already on the players. It depends on them: resurrection or sinking.