Melendi jumps onto the grass, microphone in hand, wearing the Borja Bastón shirt, and through tears sings: “I have cut myself, and my blood runs blue, since the day my father took me to Carlos Tartiere.” Masca scores a goal, which is then annulled by the VAR for offside, and the owner of Real Oviedo, Jesús Martínez, hugs the security guard in the box. He electrifies the atmosphere of the Oviedo coliseum; three measly points on the sixth day of the League, and now looking for the dream of promotion that the Brazilian Alemao prolongs with his goal in the 72nd minute against an Espanyol that crumples in the last quarter of an hour.
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Leo Román, Pomares (Masca, min. 60), Dani Calvo, Oier Luengo, Viti, Paulino De la Fuente (Jonathan Dubasin, min. 35), Luismi (Santiago Homenchenko, min. 78), Santiago Colombatto, Sebas (Abel Bretones , min. 60), Jaime Seoane and Alexandre Alemão (Borja Bastón, min. 78)
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Joan Garcia, Óscar Gil (Keita Baldé, min. 76), Cabrera, Calero, Brian (Pere Milla, min. 76), Aguado (Melamed, min. 62), Jofre (Salvi, min. 62), Keidi, José Gragera , Braithwaite and Javi Puado (Sergi Gómez, min. 62)
Goals 1-0 min. 71: Alexandre Alemão.
Referee Damaso Arcediano Monescillo
Yellow cards Luismi (min. 67), Óscar Gil (min. 70) and Keita Baldé (min. 87)
The parakeets are used to returning to First on the fast track after each relegation, and they will have to sweat more than expected against an Oviedo that occupied the last place for promotion, for a gift from Racing, again the curse of the sixth that threatens the Espanyolistas this time, who will have to win no matter what next Sunday.
It was a question of will, and it put Oviedo more in the middle of its magical atmosphere in the Tartiere, although Espanyol scared in the first play after a steal by Aguado that ended with Jofre’s cross shot. First and almost last, because although the fear of losing prevailed in both teams, it was Oviedo that persevered the most in search of the goal, with Alemao as the protagonist as the maximum threat, first in a backheel to Masca that the Portuguese took advantage of to shoot and for Joan García to shine, and then in the goal. It was a foul that Seoane made and it closed. The goalkeeper, who caught it, realized that he was going to go into the goal with the ball, so he got rid of it, the rebound was touched by Oier Luengo and it fell to Alemao, who shot from close range to bring the illusion to Oviedo.
A few minutes later, Tartiere reached ecstasy when Masca headed in a Dubasin cross, completely disconcerting Espanyol, but the VAR reviewed the images and detected that the Portuguese striker was offside at the time of the cross. The joy frustrated for a few moments, the Oviedo stadium returned to the effort of pushing its team in the final moments, in which Espanyol, like the rest of the match, barely found any arguments to get dangerously close to Leo Román’s goal. Despite Braithwaite’s efforts, once again the best in the ranks of his team, always ready for the wall or looking for space. But the excess of caution from his teammates prevented him from shining.
After a flat first half and Oviedo’s better tone in the second, with the prize of the goal, once Espanyol found themselves behind on the scoreboard, they did not know how to sink their teeth into a rival who has permission, at least for a week, to dream of returning to a category they have not known since the first year of the 21st century.
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