Butarque is extreme resilience

Butarque celebrated its 25th anniversary in a carnival of resistance. Against Las Palmas. Against arbitration. Those of Idiakez played 76 ‘with one less for a red card against Juan Muñoz. And despite the numerical superiority and the sublime inertia of him far from home (García Pimienta’s men have only lost one away game), the Canaries did not know how to take advantage, not to win the game, but even to besiege their willful rival, desperate in the decisions of the referees. To that expulsion, the third consecutive in three days, was added the correction of the red card to Viera that Milla Alvéndiz did see, but Sagués Oskoz, of bad memory south of the capital, he corrected. The Lega has not fallen at home since October 2. Las Palmas still hasn’t assaulted Butarque after 18 years since their last victory.

The game lasted normally for a quarter of an hour. The time it took Juan Muñoz to emulate De Jong and his kick to Xabi Alonso in the 2010 World Cup final. The forward stamped his studs on Valles’s chest when he was looking for an impossible ball from a free kick. It was not voluntary. The look was sewn to the leather in search of the desperate goal of someone who knows they are under pressure from the debate with Karrikaburu, again substitute in the stubborn board of Idiakez. And there are already five duels in a row. But the action was clear. Almost pornographic. Book red.

Infinite resistance

The third in a row that executes a jinxed Leganés with direct expulsions. Six this season are unmentionable ballast. A playoff sentence. And that by then the wind was blowing in favor of the pepineros. Great atmosphere in the stands (it was Butarque’s attendance record in Second) and tension on the green. The start was frantic, with the pepineros butroneando to the space that is that courage with which Las Palmas always advances its lines. Arnáiz had the first when 60 seconds had not been exceeded. Juan Muñoz, the clearest at 8′. A long ball from Jorge Sáenz left him one-on-one before the goalkeeper, whom he later carved with his boot. He finished off the doll. It was not his afternoon.

The expulsion did not embolden Las Palmas either, clinging to their game of possession (they went to rest with 71%) to macerate the ball and chances, confident that their moment would come. But it didn’t come. Just three shy chances from Curbelo (26′), Viera (39′) and especially Pejiño (43′) were lukewarm attempts against a Leganés who concreted their average (Miramón went from the lane to the inside) and dared with some new attempt clear. Arnáiz (45’+2′) had a one-on-one before the show Sagués Oskoz. The VAR referee, a bad memory for this Leganés, decided to intervene and correct Milla Alvéndiz, who saw an attack on Raba in a slap from Jonathan Viera. The red to the canary was yellow for revision. Butarque seethed with indignation.

Nerves without occasions

It was not the contagious environmental tension in the green after a resumption of low pulsations. Las Palmas dominated with little malicious spirit, perhaps too convinced that the goal would come due to the weight of a hectic inertia from the bench. García Pimienta spent four changes already at 63 ‘, with Sandro and Loren as revulsive carats. The technician was deploying artillery, but without bombarding the goal of a calm Risk, entrenched behind the good chain mail of his companions. And Leganés even allowed himself some dangerous approach as a result of an excellent display. And if the lungs did not arrive, Butarque put the last breath. Also the scream in the air. At minute 85, he claimed a red card for a foul on Arnáiz that was not even marked as a foul. umpteenth mess for a convulsed ephemeris. Butarque and a quarter of a century of fort.