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load of changes this week with Erice suspended and Raul Lopez out injured for at
least a month, Fragoso moves up into midfield with Alvaro Silva returning after
suspension to partner Mansilla, Cifuentes moves back across to his normal left
back position and Cristian returns, after suspension, to the right back
position. Across the middle Abraham starts in place of Ormazabal, who had a bit
of a nightmare game last week, Lopez Silva moves back to the left wing and
Enrique returns after injury to his normal right wing and Fran Cortes starts in
the role of playmaker with just Tristan playing up front. The trip back to the
impressive Anoeta stadium in the North of Spain for Javier Gracia, where he
played most of his professional football, looked like it might turn out to be a
make or break game for the young Cadiz trainer, who is undoubtedly under
pressure with los amarillos dangerously in the relegation zone. After a heavy
overnight snow storm the ground staff had to clear the pitch of several
centimetres of snow if there was any chance of the match being played,
regrettably for the visitors they managed to complete the task and so the match
was able to kick off at 18.00 with the sky looking full of even more snow. After
an initial effort from Aramburu after three minutes that Mansilla managed to
block on the line it was Cadiz who opened the scoring when in the seventh minute a play
started down the left through Lopez Silva ended with the ball parried out by
Bravo, the Real keeper, but the ball went to Abraham who shot first time and Diego Tristan
got a touch to take the ball into the back of the net to make it 0-1 to the visitors.
Unfortunately the Cadiz happiness was shortlived as just four minutes later
Aramburu pounced on a loose ball, which should have been cleared, in the Cadiz area and beat Casilla to make it
1-1. With the game now all square and the snow falling heavily the home team
tried to take control of the field but los amarillos were battling well and
Tristan, of all the Cadiz players, was looking the most impressive against a
quality side and he forced a good save from Bravo in the 19th minute and a
couple of minutes later fired in a free kick from just outside the area that was
just the wrong side of the post. A minute later and Agirretxe beat Casilla but
the referee ruled the īgoalī offside and the score remained 1-1. The bad luck
seems to keep following this Cadiz side at the moment and the impressive and
influential Tristan was forced off the pitch after just 33 minutes through
injury to be replaced by Toedtli. Before the end of the half Casilla was called
to bring off a good save to thwart Labaka and the half ended 1-1 with the
visitors performing well.
 A
minute into the second half and it was the beginning of the end for Cadiz when a
bad misunderstanding between Cristian, Mansilla and Casilla ended with Cristian
trying to clear the ball which smacked into the back of Mansilla and bounced
free to the feet of Aguiretxe who was able to easily put the ball into the open
Cadiz goal to make it 2-1. With los amarillos now behind and forced to chase the
game the home side were able to soak up any pressure and pretty easily keep the
visitors at bay, so much so, that it wasnīt until very late into the game that
Toedtli managed to force Bravo into the only save he had to make in the half.
With Cadiz forced to attack Real were able to make use of the spaces that were
opening up and they looked dangerous whenever they got the ball. Despite looking
strong in attack the third goal for the home side came in the 76th minute from a
free kick taken by Elustondo, which bounced off the knee of Abraham and deviated the ball past a helpless Casilla. On the stroke of full
time another poor defensive mistake, this time from Cifuentes, who lost the
ball, gave Griezemann the chance to beat Casilla to make it 4-1. There was still
time left for Xabi Prieto to get the ball in the net to make it 5-1 but the
referee ruled the effort out for a debatable offside and so the final score was
a very disappointing 4-1 and it leaves los amarillos well and truly in the drop
zone and looking short of confidence.
The Team
Casilla
Cristian
Mansilla Alvaro Silva Cifuentes
Enrique(70mins Nano)
Abraham Fragoso Cortes
Lopez Silva
Tristan(33mins Toedtli)
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