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Week  10	Castellon	4	v	1	Cadiz
Date 31st October 2009	Campos 24 mins				Nano 41 mins
	Guzman 86 and 90 mins
	Alvaro Silva o.g. 92 mins
	Paez				Fleurquin
	Campos				Ogbeche (originally a red, see below)
					Alvaro Silva
					Casilla
					Cifuentes

Following the red card to Lopez Silva last week he misses tonights game and his place is taken by Nano Gonzalez, whilst Enrique drops to the bench with Ormazabal coming into the midfield and Fran Cortes starting on the right. After last weeks victory hopes were high that another three points could be added to this seasons tally against bottom of the table Castellon, who have amassed just four points from their first nine games. However it was the home team who started strongly and really dominated Cadiz, although los amarillos had the first half chance in the fourth minute when a good play between Cristian and Fran Cortes led to a dangerous cross coming  over from Cortes but there was nobody able to get on the end of it. However that was a rare foray into the Castellon half as the white and black stripes of the home side pressed forward into the Cadiz half looking to break the visiting defence and it looked as if they had opened the scoring in the 14th minute when Buesco finished off a cross from the right but the goal was, eventually, ruled out for offside. Regrettably they didn´t have to wait that long before they were finally ahead when in the 24th minute from a well rehearsed free kick Campos nodded the ball down and into the net to make it 1-0. With time edging towards half time Cadiz were given a lifeline when Baigorri made a mistake and Fran Cortes pounced on the ball raced into the area and slipped it inside to Ormazabal, who failed to connect but the ball ran through to Nano who buried the ball in the net with his left to make it all square at the break.

At the start of the second half the game opened up and it was end to end stuff with Ogbeche galloping through but his left footed effort was wide of the mark and then Nano put in a dangerous cross from the left but again there was no Cadiz player able to get to it and the ball was easily cleared. At the other end Palanca was causing problems first a solo effort ended with his shot being off target that was followed by a good cross to the far post to Ulloa who failed to convert the chance. As the half wore on the home side upped the pressure and Cadiz got numbers behind the ball looking to try and score on a quick break and Gracia put on Fleurquin, Enrique and Abraham, taking off the playmakers Caballero, Fran Cortes and Ormazabal. However after just 15 minutes on the pitch Fleurquin was heading for an early bath when he picked up a straight red after jumping for a ball against Uranga who crashed to the ground. With Cadiz a man down it was all one way traffic until the final whistle but los amarillos were holding out well until just four minutes before the end Guzman popped up on the edge of the box to make it 2-1 to Castellon. On the stroke of the ninetieth minute Guzman repeated the feat to make it 3-1 and two minutes into time added on Alvaro Silva knocked the ball in for an unfortunate own goal to make the final score 4-1. That however was not the end of the story as Ogbeche managed to get himself red carded after the final whistle, although he believes that he was the victim of ungentlemanly conduct from a couple of Castellon players and hopes that the incident was videoed and his red card will be revoked, but at the moment he misses next weeks home game against Real Betis, which is being played on Sunday, 8th November at the Carranza, kicking off at 17.00.

As a postscript to this report, Ogbeche received a four match ban, however, after reviewing some film of the incident Cadiz appealed the decision. This resulted in the ban being over-turned and the red card has been downgraded to a yellow instead.

The Team 

                                                                                     Casilla

                                                 Cristian           Alvaro Silva         Fragoso          Cifuentes

          Cortes (75mins Abraham)   Ormazabal(58mins Fleurquin)    Caballero(65mins Enrique)      Erice      Nano

                                                                                    Ogbeche

Check out the goal highlights by clicking on the following link:-

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ3upBojjog