Zaragoza hosts Ponferradina in round 23 of Spanish LaLiga 2. The match will be played on Friday, January 29th at La Romareda (Zaragoza)
In the last draw, Zaragoza was close to promotion to LaLiga. As a result, the club scored only four points less than Cadiz and took 3rd place. There were hopes that the Whites would manage to step up and finally gain a direct ticket to Primera, but everything is vice versa. As it happened more than once before, the club got in a deep crisis after an offensive defeat in the playoffs. Now it is 2nd but from the opposite end of the standings. The fans pin their hopes only on Juan Ignacio Martinez, who returned to his homeland and headed the team in December. With him, Zaragoza had a good streak with seven points scored in three rounds. But in the last match, the Whites lost on the pitch of Albacete and remained at the bottom of the standings.
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Ponferradina has not spent many years at the Segunda level. In the first half of the last decade, it tried several times to intervene in the fight for the playoff zone but twice stopped in the 7th position. And then La Deportiva was relegated to Segunda B, from where it returned only three years later. This was achieved by Bolo, a former Basque striker who headed the team in 2018. He was not only able to bring it to a higher division from the outset but kept it there, despite all the difficulties. Ponferradina finished the last championship at the borderline (in 18th place). And now it even claims to climb into the top six. The club scored 34 points in 22 matches, and it is not slowing down even now. Last Saturday the White-Blues played in Malaga and calmly beat the Anchovies (2-0), scoring a goal at the beginning and the end of the match.
In total, the rivals played nine head-to-head matches, and the visitors never won in them. Zaragoza has four victories, and Ponferradina has won twice, including 2-1 in November last year. Now Zaragoza is in a protracted crisis, and the visitors are in great shape. We think that Ponferradina will be able to at least not lose on Friday night.
Prediction for the match: Ponferradina to win with +0.5 handicap
