Fight for permanence and the playoff: a heart attack Saturday

The last league days usually provide strong emotions in any sport. But the one that will close the regular phase of futsal today, with a unified schedule (all games will start at 6:30 p.m.), would be contraindicated by a cardiologist. At stake are the last three places that give access to the playoff for the title, still without a clear owner, and 14th, the border between relegation and permanence in the first category.

The battle for the qualifying rounds falls to four teams: ElPozo, Ribera Navarra and Santa Coloma, who reach the outcome in the good cut, and Jaén, who is on the prowl. If the Andalusian team, which is measured with the already relegated Burela, scores and one of those ahead slips, a sure thing because ElPozo and Santa Coloma face each other, they will get into the ointment. For its part, Ribera Navarra has an appointment with Levante, and without mathematical options.

More dramatic if possible will be the struggle below. Everything is between two clubs: Zaragoza, which has the upper hand, and Betis. They will clash respectively with Palma, who if they win would opt to be second and have a better match in the playoff, and with a Manzanares in no man’s land, from which victory neither gives nor takes anything away. The Betis team has rowed with everything in the final stretch of the championship, without defeat in the last four games. But they have only won twice at home this term. One more is necessary.