ORA change of coach is always a bad experience for any club manager. It is also for the outgoing coach and, why not, for the one who enters a locker room again -as a general rule- very touched by the results. And if that coach arrives and finds, at first, with a surreal press conference due to the questions of the topic that wants to be “the dead man in the funeral”, even more bad swallow still. It’s what happened in the Cádiz in the last days, the output of cervera and the arrival of Sergio Gonzalez, architect, for the moment, of a brief resurrection and that has allowed the team to meet again with victory almost three months later.
After the victory against I raised the new technician had the intelligence and the know-how to remember the proper name of the outgoing master: “This victory belongs to the players but also to the work that Álvaro Cervera has done here for so many years“. Said and done. Sergio González has landed on his feet. No one doubts that he will have his less good moments and also his mistakes but, for now, no one is going to take the benefit of the doubt from the Catalan coach, of having taken advantage of the team’s defensive mechanisms to grow, recovering the confidence of key players and everything this after the draw against Spanish when there were only 5 seconds left in the game.
Amen of the coach, above any name stands out that of lvaro Negredo that he was not a starter and that he did not even appear in some games (such as the loss against Osasuna) by decision of the previous technician. A striker of his category, old or not, cannot be denied balls in the area. He showed it with his goal in Valencia and also before Spanish, marking one legal and two annulled. The shark He is still an animal inside the area and Sergio González is very much to blame for his goals having returned, with the lack that this causes to Cdiz, which is still looking, however, for a striker in this winter market. There is talk of Cadista interest in recovering an old acquaintance from Valencia, Manuel Vallejo; the striker seemed to have set the course for China but some information suggests that Valencia’s interest in Jens Johnson and the idea of Bordals that the chiclanero leave, they could find a bizarre equation and a more than interesting barter for the Cadista club. How good it would be for Cdiz to have another partner for Negredo.
Another proper name, beyond Ledesma and his continuous safety line under the sticks is that of Ivan Alexius. With Cervera he was almost always the first or second replacement, always from the bench and with a tertiary role until the famous day of Vallecas. There he appeared for the first time after an unsuccessful exit in the summer, a clear misunderstanding with the club and that they had him almost four months without playing (from the start of the league until December 13 he had only played 69 minutes in the League) dismissed by the previous technician. Since Sergio González arrived, Alejo was a vital shock against the Spanish (with a goal included) and I did not hesitate to give him the title in Valencia with another remarkable performance. Alejo is a different footballer, who you may like more or less, but his involvement with the team is undeniable. His play in these two games has been largely to blame for the good work of Cádiz.
And if we talk about proper names and winter markets, for the moment, the one that has fallen on its feet is Fede San Emeterio. What was called “team glue” by diego martinez in that fabulous grenade, is also being the perfect gear in this Cdiz. Sergio González knows it, he knows him well and he is not disappointing. His participation is one of the good news that confirms that, sometimes, the winter market helps the teams a lot. San Emeterio is playing it all and it looks like it will continue to be that way, seen what has been seen.
What does seem evident is that the casting to add proper names to salvation is still open and that the Perea, Salvi, Idrissi, Alcaraz and company They would be delighted to continue reviving Cádiz in every game between now and the end of the season. Because momentary and punctual resurrections can mean a major salvation for which very few gave anything just ten days ago.
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