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Week  9	Albacete	4	v	1	Cadiz
Date 22nd October 2006
	Buades 2 and 25 mins				Paz 27 mins
	Caneda o.g. 11 mins
	Sanchez 90 mins
	Diego Alegre				Sesma
	Noguerol				Nano
	Azcorra				Raul Lopez
	Buades

Cadiz recorded another defeat this time convincingly away at Albacete, to pile further pressure on manager Oli. He opted to start 19 year old Chico in place of the suspended De Quintana, with Sergio, Sesma and Nano supporting De Paula up front.

But the visitors gave themselves a mountain to climb with a disastrous start. In the opening seconds a deep cross from the left was toed behind at the far post by Raul Lopez. From the resulting corner, Buades rose to nod in Parri’s outswinging corner at the near post and the deadlock was broken with less than 2 minutes on the clock. As the home side tried to build on their lead, David Sanchez was unlucky when his shot drifted inches wide of the top corner after a neat one two. The same player was heavily involved minutes later as Albacete doubled their lead after 11 minutes. His left footed freekick was glanced on by a fully stretched Cesar Caneda and the ball looped into the top corner. With Cadiz in disarray David Sanchez was again the provider for the third on 25 minutes. Armando struggled to cope with his 40 yard swinging freekick, and when the ball bounced off the post Buades had a simple tap in. Fortunately Cadiz stopped the rot two minutes later after a good through ball from Sergio to Sesma had won Cadiz a corner. Nano crossed and Paz planted his firm header past Valbuena. Oli then decided drastic measures were needed and introduced promising youngster Acuna for Sergio. The Paraguayans introduction sparked a mini revival with Cadiz looking much more spirited, but they couldn’t find a way to reduce the deficit. 

Just after halftime Sesma and Garcia combined well but failed to trouble Valbuena, as did Acuna a couple of minutes later. Any hope of a comeback was dealt a massive blow in the 63^rd minute, when Raul Lopez was adjudged to have stamped on Azcorra on the touchline. He became the fourth Cadiz player to get their marching orders already this season, with three of those being in the last 3 league games. As the game looked to be heading for a 3-1 finish, a good break down the right led to a dangerous ball across the Cadiz goal, and as sub Gato failed to reach it, David Sanchez made no mistake at the far post as he powered the ball past the retreating Armando.

A disappointing result will need to be overturned with a win against Numancia in the Carranza on Sunday, to lift both morale and the storm clouds over Oli’s future as manager.

The Team 

                                                                            Armando

                                        Cesar Caneda        Paz        Chico         Raul Lopez

    Nano (83 mins Enrique)        Miguel Garcia      Sergio (37 mins Acuña)   Bezares (57 mins Fleurquin)       Sesma

                                                                             De Paula