Quiles highlights the direct promotion of Deportivo

Dépor does not give up fight for direct promotion. Against Ceuta they got a crucial win to reduce the points with their opponents in front thanks to a fresh exhibition from their dynamic duo. Great goal by Quilesafter an outstanding cross from Lucas, it allows A Coruña’s men to tally and continue at the Riazor, awaiting another home test next week in Córdoba.

Dépor ended the first half completely bent over the Ceuta goal. The visitors left Rodrigo an isolated island in attack, while they connected two impenetrable lines of nine players in their forward part. In this way, they short-circuited most of the attacks of the blue and whites, who after two shots from distance by Jaime after five minutes, and after half an hour Soriano barely hit the goal frame. Both were solved by Mejías.

But these 45 minutes passed in the midst of much protested arbitration work. The referee made a mistake when he flagged Quiles for a non-existent offside midway through the period. It was Lucas from a free kick into the area in which the entire Ceuta defense took the lead, but the top scorer of the blue and whites from behind was left alone against the opponent’s goalkeeper. The blue and white pichichi performed another controversial action just before the break. In a fresh siege of the visitors’ area, Quiles went down in the area after getting in front of a defender, but Sánchez Sánchez again looked the other way. Riazor blasted him with a large handkerchief.

On the way back from the locker room, Dépor didn’t even need ten minutes to take the lead on the scoreboard. It was thanks book backlash in which the two referents of the blue-white attack merged. Quiles ran from midfield after a dribble, a directional control of many cards and a pass from the outside to Lucas’ career. On the seventh, he calmed down, waited for pichichi’s arrival and slotted a candy into the space for his partner to complete his fourteenth league goal at will. And the fifteenth should have arrived right away, in a shot on the edge of the hour mark that crashed into the post.

A 1-0 draw opened the game in a circle that confused the blue and whites in attack, more eager to string together the last counter than to maintain the rhythm of the game and equalize the increasingly daring Ceuta, although no shots against Mackay thanks to the multiplication of Jaime and Martínez, firm in front of the dangerous Rodri. Despite this, in the rebound Pablo García had the opportunity to equalize with a free kick that was close to the post.

Only then did the blue and whites realize that the game required them to control it and they started to do it. Soriano managed to score on a long shot that hit an opponent and missed the post. Zalazar was rewarded with standing ovations in the afternoon, who put together an attack that he himself knocked into the crossbar and almost won the match. But Mizzian, alone at the far post, also had a clear header to equalize after a cross into the blue and white box but missed. Riazor breathed a sigh of relief at the final whistle.

The lead is only two points away, Alcorcón awaits a visit to Riazor, and Castilla one

The victory against Ceuta brought Deportivo back within reach of the leadership of the First Federation five days before the end of the championship. The A Coruña team remained in third place, although it reduced the advantage that the first two teams had. Alcorcón is now two points behind the blue and whites, who welcome the potters in their next home game. For this reason, they depend on themselves to overtake him. Castilla also continues ahead in second place, a point ahead of the team led by Óscar Cano. The white branch comes after a hard-fought victory in the Unionist field. In addition, Racing de Ferrol is in fourth place and has two points less than Deportivo, but has a game in hand, which resumes on May 3 against Córdoba.

The Andalusian team will be the next opponent of the blue and white next Sunday at six in the afternoon at Nuevo Arcángel. The home team, now coached by former athlete Manuel Mosquera, finished today in seventh place with 48 points, as many as Mérida and Unionistas, and already five of the positions in the promotion phase. The Verdiblanco team, which became an outstanding leader during the first round, has achieved only one victory since January 15 after being defeated today in their away game at Majadahonda.