Real Zaragoza-Real Betis

[Verdiblanco de Holanda]

The squad:Adán, Dani Giménez, Molinero, Caro, Bruno, Jordi Figueras, Perquis, Casado, Matilla, Lolo Reyes, Xavi Torres, Kadir, Pacheco, Cejudo, Chuli, Rennella, Jorge Molina y Rubén Castro.

[Verdiblanco de Holanda]

Re: Real Zaragoza-Real Betis

This weekend's Liga Adelante fixture is away to Real Zaragoza, Sunday night at 8pm. The home side are just below Betis in the table, and the verdiblancos haven't followed a home win with one on their travels for almost two years, so this is quite a tricky-looking game, but I think we can at least agree that Betis are improving, albeit not quite as dramatically as we'd like.
The week's main news has been the sad disclosure that promising left-back Alex Martínez, one of the first names on Julio Velázquez's team-sheet, damaged a cruciate knee ligament in last week's win and will miss the rest of the season, and he won't be the only absentee tomorrow: Alfred N'Diaye is away with Senegal and Dani Ceballos is off with Spain under-19s. Fingers crossed for three points to keep pace with the leaders.

[Real Balompié]

Re: Real Zaragoza-Real Betis

Adan....BETIS´s Savior today. the goalkeeper of BETIS saved an insipid draw at the last minute. Julio Velazquez can breathe a sigh of relief during one week more.

Real Zaragoza 2 - Real Betis Balompié 2 -- HIGHLIGHTS

[Pelusa97]

Re: Real Zaragoza-Real Betis

An entertaining game finished Zaragoza 2-2 Betis for a point we'll accept gratefully, especially as Antonio Adán was called upon to make a miraculous point-blank save in the last five seconds. On the other hand, Betis did take the lead twice and created easily enough good chances to win, but looked leaky enough at the back for a draw to probably be about the right result.
Vincenzo Rennella scored the only goal of the first half, adding to his already respectable tally with a smart finish after the Zaragoza keeper had botched a clearance, but the home side drew level shortly after half-time thanks to one of those ridiculous penalties for a totally unavoidable handball. A hilarious headed own goal gave the visitors the lead again, but this in turn lasted a matter of minutes before a long pass split the Betis defence way too easily and Zaragoza midfielder Pedro put the ball away very nicely. 2-2 is how it stayed for the last half an hour, but there were chances at both ends, including the "how did that not go in?" one mentioned above that Adán managed to block.
I'm not sure that all Béticos would agree with me, but I thought verdiblancos showed signs of further progress, moving the ball much more quickly in attack and stretching the Zaragoza defence on numerous occasions. The next task is to string a couple of wins together and start moving up the table.
Betis: Adán; Molinero (Caro, m. 81), Bruno, Jordi, Casado; Xavi Torres, Lolo Reyes, Matilla; Kadir, Rubén Castro, Rennella (Molina, m. 74).
Goals: 0-1, m. 34: Rennella. 1-1, m. 53: Willian José, pen. 1-2, m. 56: Cabrera, og. 2-2, m. 62: Pedro.

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