Before the schedules are unified for the last two dates of the championship, when everything will be at stake, Oviedo faces a special day. The Blues play the penultimate game of the regular season against a Zaragoza that, although they have not yet closed their stay mathematically, they do have it within reach. And it will do so next Monday, with the peculiarity that the Ziganda boys will know when the results of their direct rivals for promotion are released.
The streak of the main pursuers, who advance at a similar rate to Oviedo, has made things narrow at the top. The blue team remains sixth after their goalless draw against Malaga, a date in which they once again showed their defensive efficiency but in which they lacked a bit more bite to aspire to the three points. But the victories of Las Palmas and Ponferradina in their respective duels means that they have come within a shot of a game.
The Canarians now advance to three points behind Oviedo, and they still have to play the match at the Gran Canaria stadium, which will be on the penultimate day of the competition, while the Bercian team has been placed just one point behind the Blues. On the other hand, the defeat of Girona in their feud against Tenerife leaves Míchel’s men tied on 64 points with Oviedo. The weekend will have to look on several fronts.
“We will be watching all the games. But in the end, the important thing is to get what is ours and fight to enter the playoffs, which is not going to be an easy goal”, explains Joni Montiel, who has been awarded as the best Oviedo footballer of the month of April in the award given by Mahou .
Optimism, in any case, remains inside the blue booth: “I see the team well. We are in a very good dynamic at the moment and we have to take advantage of it as much as we can. There are three complicated games left because of how tight everything is, but the sensations that we transmit are good and I see the team ready for the fight”.
The key at home
For Joni Montiel, getting her head into the top six necessarily involves the matches that remain to be played at the Carlos Tartiere, which in the case of the Blues are two: against Zaragoza and Ibiza. “To know if we need to win everything that remains depends on the results of the other teams, but we have two games at home, which is where we have to become strong, and from there see what happens with the rest of the rivals ”.
And the attacker added on loan from Rayo Vallecano: “The key will be in what happens in the games we play at home. Only we have two games at the Carlos Tartiere and we have to take advantage of that circumstance”.