Real Madrid Castilla looks for an ‘impossible’. At least that’s how it has been until now. Raúl’s team needs to win at eldense at home to move up to Second, something that no team in the category has achieved this season. The Nuevo Pepico Amat is a fort that only assaulted a ‘First’, Athletic in the Cup. In League, 12 wins and seven draws, plus two other wins at home: one in the Cup (against a Segunda, Burgos) and another in the playoff (Celta B). This is the dimension of the new feat that the whites need to overcome the tie.
Eldense took a valuable draw from Di Stéfano that allows them to be promoted if they do not lose at home. If they were even at the end of extra time, the Alicante team would go up for their best league classification. That means that Fernando Estévez’s menthey are worth 21 of the 22 results they have achieved in the Nuevo Pepico Amat throughout the year. They have been untouchable at home and that is the strength they want to assert against the Castile for return to Segunda six decades later.
Florentino Pérez harangues Castilla in their last battle for promotion to Segunda
But if he eldense It pulls muscle at home, Castilla does it as a visitor. It has been the best away team of the 40 in the category, adding 34 points. They won 10 games, drew four and lost five, plus Johan Cruyff’s defeat in the semifinal against Barca Athletic. Therefore, only six defeats in 20 games away from Di Stéfano. A fact that confirms the white strength as a visitor and that invites optimism in the subsidiary, as Raúl himself highlighted: “We are going with all the desire and all the ambition, if Castilla has done anything this year it is to compete well away from home.”
The two coaches appear in the final with significant casualties. In it eldenseto the loss already known of Álex Martínez, joins that of Abbot, sanctioned. Therefore, Fernando Estevez It will not have its two starting sides. Raúl has the long-term loss of his starting goalkeeper, mario de louisand loses the youth Gonzalo, Edgar and Manuel Angel, summoned with the selection sub 19.
great atmosphere
Playoff promotion to Segunda (final, first leg): Summary and goals of Real Madrid Castilla 1-1 Eldense
In Elda everything is prepared to live a historic day. The City Council has installed a giant screen to follow the game in the Ficia square, where from three hours before there will be music and animation to bring together all the people who will not be able to enter the field. because the stadium New Pepico Amat It will be full to the brim.
He Castile You know the environment that awaits you, but you are not intimidated and you want to use it to your advantage. they know that pressure is a factor that can take its toll on your rival, which has everything in its favor (the draw is worth it and they play at home) and more demand in the ascent. “The atmosphere will be partying, but also very tense because it is a great opportunity for them. We want to go up, but I think we have less pressure because our process and our goal is different.”warning Raul.
