Tadej Pogacar style. If last week the great Slovenian cyclist broke the Strade Bianche, the beautiful Tuscan race, starting only 50 kilometers from the finish line on the same face as all his rivals, Racing has the opportunity to escape tomorrow, ten days from the end, if is capable of beating Zamora in El Sardinero. The defeats of Depor in Badajoz and Celta B, at home and against the almost evicted Tudelano would leave Racing with six points, plus goals, with those of Riazor and ten over Vigo and Rayo Majadahonda. If he wins, of course.
If football were not a sport in which things like what happened at the Bernabéu on Wednesday could happen, one could dare to prophesy that a placid afternoon awaits Racing at El Sardinero against Zamora. Romo’s team was far superior to the rojiblancos already in the Ruta de la Plata, in the first round, and reaches this day in its best moment of play and results. The Zamora team, on the other hand, is in full depression, five points from salvation and has accumulated seven consecutive days without scoring a single goal. In that period, Santander have scored 13 and conceded only three. But no, this is football and it is likely that Racing will have to sweat to extend its lead at the top of the table.
To face the Galician team Yago Iglesias, Guillermo Fernández Romo will not be able to count on Patrick Soko, sanctioned for accumulation of cards, nor on Manu Justo who completed the session on Friday, but who arrived at the locker room after a session of auctions, with discomfort in the hamstrings and is awaiting an MRI. In exchange, Álvaro Mantilla returns, absent due to suspension last Wednesday. There is one of the great doubts of the eleven: will Bobadilla continue with Pol Moreno or will Mantilla recover his place? There are plenty of arguments to defend both candidates.
To make up for Soko’s absence, it seems more than likely that Arturo will change wings, occupy the Cameroonian’s and leave the left side for Marco Camus. Pablo Torre in the midfield and Cedric Omoigui up front are indisputable: Soto de la Marina is the best player in the category and the Nigerian when he is with the arrow up, and he showed it against Cultural, is differential.
The racinguista coach, however, can, after three weeks full of games and emotions, rotate a little more than usual. On Thursday and Friday his starters practically did not train because, he confessed, he saw them very tired. That could mean the entry into the axis of Borja Domínguez or Sergio Marcos instead of Tienza, that Unai Medina, the fairest muscularly of all, rest from the beginning or, if he already wants to show off, put Yeray in for Pablo Torre, to remove Charge your star. It would be a sin, but without at some point you can afford it in this game.
Zamora, a team that tries to play football and usually bets on an offensive 4-3-3 that, however, does not give it. He has only scored 16 goals all season, a figure even lower than that of Tudelano, which has been last all season, and that is 25 less than Racing. Iglesias has no more casualties than those of long duration and trust in the class and experience in the category of Carlos Ramos, Dani Hernández and Julián Luque from Cantabria to take the ball away from Racing.
(Photo above: Cedric Omoigui celebrated for AS on Friday at La Albericia his reunion in style with the goal after five months of abstinence)
Previous sheet
RACING: Parera; Unai Medina, Bobadilla, Pol Moreno, Satrústegui; Tienza, Inigo; Arturo, Pablo Torre, Camus; and Cedric. SUBSTITUTES: Lucas Díaz (ps), Mantilla, Isma López, Javi Vázquez, Sergio Marcos, Borja Domínguez, Yeray, Bustos and Harper.
ZAMORA: Pau Torres; Parra, Cordero, Garay, Jon Rojo; Carlos Ramos, Luque, Dani Hernandez; Yanis, Kepa Vieites; and Losada. SUBSTITUTES: Villanueva (ps), Xisco Campos, Molina, Jorge Fernández, Ndiaye, Javi Navas, Baselga, Diego, Dongou and Adrián Herrera.
REFEREE: Sergio Pérez Muley, from the Madrid committee.
STADIUM: The sardine.
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