With six days played in the Second Division, Córdoba still leaves big doubts. Especially at home, where the team has not yet managed to score a point. Iván Ania’s team has two faces at the start of the season. On the one hand, at home, it has managed to get its strongest facetwith a good defense and the best version of the green and white team. On the other hand, away from El Arcángel, the team has been unrecognizable, with games to forget and players who lower their level both offensively and defensively. Certainly, two sides of a team who has not yet taken the pulse of the silver category.
At home, the team has gradually improved and remains undefeated with two draws and a victory at El Arcángel. In addition, in two home games they have managed to keep a clean sheet, which speaks volumes for their defensive solidity. He does not make as many mistakes and is much more successful in attack. The team even remembered the team of the First Federation of El Arcángel, where, for the moment, it has not made as many mistakes and has been much more precise. It has not had the moments of disconnection that cost it the match of the last day in Huesca.
He still had a lot of room for improvement in his home games. But there was an evolution that Iván Ania himself highlighted in the press conference before his trip to Huesca. In their first game at El Arcángel, they managed to recover a point in added time against Burgos. Two weeks later, he returned to face two consecutive home games. They were superior against Malaga with a good defense even if they lacked strength up front. He learned from his mistakes against Deportivo and took the three points against a team with a bigger second division budget than the Cordoba team.
a step back
Away from home, Córdoba seems to have forgotten everything it has learned in the last two days. Against Huesca, the green and white team practically gave the game to the Huesca team since it was not controlled in the match. Its moments of disconnection in defense allowed Antonio Hidalgo’s team to take the lead on the scoreboard. In the Second Division, mistakes are more penalized than in the First Federation. And Córdoba is inexperienced in the category. At least in the first days of competition, because the mistakes it makes have a solution and can be trained.
Cordoba is a team at home and another away. Almost unrecognizable. As a visitor, he loses that strength that he had worked so hard to find at home and experiences moments of disconnection in which the game disappears. Against Huesca, in just half an hour, the team was already losing 3-0. He tried to get back into the game and he has changed his image somewhat, although too late. In addition, there are players who have dropped their level considerably, such as Marvel or Calderón, among others, who make mistakes as visitors, something they do not usually make when playing in front of their fans at El Arcángel.
Iván Ania also saw it well in the press room. The green and white coach acknowledged that “defensively we have been very bad and if you don’t keep a clean sheet away from home, it is difficult to win. If to win you have to score four or five goals, it is impossible to add more. “We have not been effective in the rival zone and defensively we have been very fragile.” For him, several times in the Second Divisionor what happens on the field is not reflected on the scoreboard. “You have to dominate the areas because often what happens in the development of the game is not reflected on the scoreboard.” His mission now with the players is to “recover them mentally, but also physically. “We had just played two good games against Malaga and Deportivo, but today is a hard blow.”
