The Cartagena loses his first game at home in a bad game of the men of Munúa

Source: La Opinión

FC Cartagena have lost their first away game at El Ejido’s home by 1-0. The goal of Samu Corral in the 37th minute was enough for the Almeria team to score three points. They held the Cartagena well, avoided the prolongations by the sides and avoided the leaked passes, which caused that the Cartagena did not have spaces where to create danger.

Albinegro block did not vary too much eleven who jumped to Santo Domingo with what he did the previous week, but the players lacked the tension of other times. The defensive good predisposition of the opponent and the little capacity to create in attack of the albinegros led to the debacle of a team that came to El Ejido with a fantastic run of seven days away from home without losing a game.

The Munúa team jumped into the field lacking in concentration and the first two arrivals were from the locals. Joao Costa was attentive and avoided scares. The Cartagena team was taking control of the game, but never offered real danger sensation, since the shots of the players were always from outside the area. El Ejido, as the minutes went by, was left to do and the albinegra defense did not suffer much less the local arrivals until the minute 37. A cross from the right came to Samu Corral who with a perfect header put the ball away from the reach of Joao Costa

After so much the Cartagena wanted to wake up, but continued insisting without too much faith by the sides with few arrivals of danger.

In the second part the technician Munúa gave entrance very soon to Rubén Cruz and to Elady looking for more presence in the area of ​​one and the verticality of the other. The Cartagena continued offering apathetic soccer, lacking of pace and little in resources. Joao Costa avoided the second goal of El Ejido by touching Sergio Jimenez’s header with the hand when the 49th minute came.

The Ejido decided after the hour of the match to get entrenched behind and look for the counter while his defense was well covered with two very close lines. Rubén Cruz tried it in the 62nd minute with a left-footed shot that went too far, but the great occasion came from Vitolo’s boots. The midfielder went into the area and fired. A defender touched the ball, which described a parabola to hit the crossbar. Pity the lost occasion for the Cartagena, who did not have another clearer from there at the end of the meeting.

The albinegro block remains, therefore, third in the leaderboard, with 27 points and tied to points with the fourth place, the San Fernando.