Sporting and Oviedo gave El Molinón the most exciting derby in recent years. A great goal from Nacho Méndez decided after two minutes and what came next put aside the predictable and boring of other regional duels to return chances, alternatives, controversy. The blue team was able to tie, which asked for two penalties, on other clear occasions by Paulino and Sebas Moyano. The red and white team was able to finish the game through Fran Villalba and Mario González. The victory ended up blowing up the Sporting fans, who were key to the resistance of their fans. It is not for less. Gijón celebrates a victory against the eternal rival that had resisted since 2019.
The derby started as it ended, at full speed. It took El Molinón two minutes to score a goal after singing “Asturias patria querida.” A throw-in, a header clearance to the front by Jimmy and Nacho Méndez sent sportinguismo flying. The position, somewhat tilted to the right wing. The impeccable hit created an impossible curve for Leo Román, who could do nothing but watch as it crossed the entire squad. Unstoppable. Sporting forgot about negative dynamics, the recent ones and those of the derby. Oviedo had the worst possible start.
The first quarter of an hour went to a renewed Sporting with the entry of Christian Joel, Insua, Pablo García and Fran Villalba. The latter, behind Djuka, returning Otero to the band many weeks later. They were minutes of having the ball, of moving the opponent, of liking each other. Oviedo, with Paulino as the main novelty, sought to surprise with something more than the Cantabrian. Instead of in the right lane, he settled near Bastón. It was Duvasin who started closest to the lime. With the ball, in any case, freedom for Paulino, Duvasin more inside and Viti, to catch Pablo García’s back. The Carbayón team tried to grow on the wings and succeeded over half an hour in which they locked up and made their rival suffer.
Oviedo was able to equalize before half an hour with a great ball between the lines centered by Bretones at the near post. Bastón did not arrive, but Paulino did at the penalty spot. With everything to shoot Christian Joel, the left foot jammed, finishing in a semi-miss and leaving the ball dead at his feet while his gaze searched for the net. At that time the ball lasted very little for Sporting. He was beginning to get used to living dangerously in his field while the blue team chained crosses headed by Borja Bastón and second plays. Insua and Cali, bailing. Nacho Méndez, without letting Colombatto think. He held out Miguel Ángel Ramírez’s team until the break. The feeling was that a tie was closer than anything else.
Without changes at the start of the second half, it was then Sporting who forgave the second. Gaspar temporized on the front, Pascanu arrived from the right to center. He gave Fran Villalba more than half a goal in the head. The Valencian, five feet from the goal, sent it over Leo Román’s goal. With the score not moving and the two teams involved in a give and take, the coaches began to move the benches. Alemao and Borja Sánchez inside, for Duvasin and Bastón. Mario González, for Villalba. Then came the first controversial action, a knockdown by Pablo García of Moyano on the edge of the area. The referee whistled out. The review proved him right. Colombatto shot to put Christian Joel to the test. It took half an hour. There was a lot of game left.
Varane and Hassan came in to relieve Djuka and the cautioned Nacho Méndez in a corner that, paradoxically, led to another clear chance for the Carbayón team. A pure x-ray of the madness that the game was beginning to become. He set up the fight against Oviedo, gave Alemao to Sebas Moyano and rescued Sporting Pascanu with a providential tackle when the Oviedo winger was already preparing to finish. The adrenaline, on both sides, to the maximum. Pure derby. In case there were missing ingredients. Cazorla, to the green. Who said that Sporting-Oviedo was boring?
The blue team began to regain momentum, to add lateral centers again. Ramírez responded with Róber Pier and Queipo for the exhausted Pascanu and Gaspar. And then, another action for controversy. Carrión’s team asked for another penalty, this time from Varane to Paulino that González Esteban left without blowing the whistle. They then called the monitor. He confirmed what was stated to the blue anger and euphoria of El Molinón, who celebrated it as a goal. Masca and Seoane came out to give oxygen to the Carbayón attack. He turned his sporting spirit against the visiting team to act as player number twelve. Seven minutes of added time. Oviedo, to press. Sporting, to suffer. Leo Román going up to finish off the last corner. The red and whites, responding with the last counter and with Mario González shooting wide, by millimeter, with the goal empty. Pure emotion, pure football. This is how the most open and intense Asturian derby in recent years changed hands.
2024-02-10 19:42:02
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