Albacete Balompié lost 2-0 when visiting CD Eldense this Saturday, a defeat that has the Albacete team starting to look askance at the relegation places. “Alba” fell against Pepico Amat and its defensive system once again showed itself to be very weak. In fact, they are the team with the most goals in the entire Second Division. Albacete’s next match is on Sunday (2:00 p.m.) at the Carlos Belmonte against CD Tenerife, a team struggling to climb out of the relegation places.
Just after the first quarter of an hour of play, a cross from the right came from Fran Gámez, to which Juanto Ortuño headed the ball towards a post. However, The match referee indicated a controversial penalty for understanding that goalkeeper Lizoain arrived late on the clearance with his fists and hit the attacker in the face. From eleven meters, Juanto Ortuño did not forgive and made the score 1-0.
Albacete could have equalized after half an hour, but Morcillo’s shot from the edge of the area went just wide after grazing Piña, although the goal option for Agus Medina was clearer in the 42nd minute. The midfielder fired a powerful shot, also from the edge of the box, which forced Mackay to send the ball to a corner very hastily.
After the restart, Higinio almost scored a goal for the visitors with a well-placed shot that went just wide. But it was Juanto Ortuño who sealed the battle with a goal in an epic individual game. The action began with an error by Álvaro Rodríguez when releasing a simple ball and a subsequent defeat.
Already in the last part of the match, Chapela sent a header to the crossbar of the goal defended by Lizoain after a cross from Jorquera, while Albacete unsuccessfully tried to enter the match with a goal that was not came.
TECHNICAL SHEET
CD Eldense: Mackay; Fran Gámez, Monsalve, Íñigo Piña, Víctor García; Camarasa (Nacho Quintana, m. 46), Sergio Ortuño, Timor (Youness, m. 70), Marc Mateu; Chapela (Ropero, died 83) and Juanto Ortuño (Joel Jorquera, died 70).
Albacete Balompié: Lizoaine; Javi Rueda, Jon García, Lalo, Álvaro Rodríguez (Juan María, died 62; Agus Medina, Rai Marchan (Pacheco, died 62), Riki (Nabil, died 82), Morcillo (Marcos Moreno, died 82); Higinio (Juanma, died 62) and Quiles.
Arbitrator: From the Ramos Spring. Committee of Castile and León. Yellow to the Timor and Monsalve premises. On the visitors’ side, in Lizoain.
Goals: 1-0, m. 19: Juanto Ortuño, penalty; 2-0, m. 55: Juanto Ortuño.
Incidents: The 15th day of the second division was played this Saturday afternoon at the Pepico Amat stadium in front of 5,069 spectators (official figure). Around 600 Albacete supporters in the stands. At the end of the match, several Albacete players went to greet their supporters who came to Elda, but they were blamed for the anger that the defeat had caused, even with some insults, according to coach Alberto González during the press conference which followed. Before the start of the match, a minute of silence was observed in memory of those killed by the recent DANA.
