He has remained in the top five for 16 of the first 24 league games, but he had never led the sixth-ranked by five points
Real Murcia had never been so attached to the ‘playoff’ as now. They have remained in the top five for 16 of the first 24 league games, but they had never surpassed the sixth-placed player, who is no longer in the playoffs, by five points.
Once the competition has faced the final stretch, Simón’s team seems more consolidated. Before, Real Murcia had managed to lead the sixth classified by more than two points on a few occasions. He did it after matchday 17 and after beating the Balearic Islands 3-0 in Mallorca. That resounding victory allowed him to leave third on vacation and with a three-point advantage over Nástic, who was sixth at the time.
But in January he started a bad run that, although it allowed him to maintain the three-point advantage over the sixth after matchday 18, he then lost his cushion on matchdays 19, 20, 21 and 22. Until in the last two games he has recovered the lost ground and has achieved, after winning in Logroño, an advantage with fifth that allows him to have some failure from here to the end of the league.
Simón’s men have only been out of the ‘playoff’ after matchdays 1 (draw against Calahorra), 5 (lost 2-0 in Barcelona), 8 (0-0 against Irún), 10, 11 (1-4 in Enrique Roca against Osasuna B and a goalless draw in La Nucía) and 13, after losing in Castellón by a solitary goal.
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