A flat style of play, alarming inability to generate danger and the waste of a timetable, a priori, conducive to take-off. All these ingredients make up a bitter cocktail that defines the image of Cordoba CF in the six consecutive matches he accumulates … without knowing victory. During this period, they were only able to add four points out of a possible eighteen. Stay afloat in the rankingsbut the sensations are more and more worrying and the Cordoba club cannot find a way to shake a dynamic which threatens to take root.
If every day were a boxing match, Córdoba would be on points. unanimous winner. Dominator of possession, greater number of passes and offensive production far superior to his rival, however, the winning drought remains. Although on paper these are very positive factors, the reality is that the objective is very far away. several certainly remarkable touches.
Goal inefficiency and drought for Fuentes
Yesterday’s match against Eibar reflects Blanquiverde’s biggest must: threaten the rival goal. Except for a left-footed shot from Carracedo in the second half, no shots from Blanquiverde coach Iván Ania’s pupils put Magunagoitia in position. On thirteen shots, only two were between the three suitswhich leaves a very low 15% shots on goal. The trend continues if the focus is broadened. In the six consecutive games without a victory, the Cordoba team executed 96 shots and only 28 between the three sticks. This leaves a worrying success rate of 29%.
As for the scorers, the results are even more alarming. Córdoba only scored five goals during this entire winless streak and, in the last three games, they have barely scored a goal. A goal which did not even avoid defeat against Cadiz. As for the scorers, Bri and Dalisson found the net on one occasion, to which is added an own goal. The best performer of this period is Two-Target Fountainseven if the Madrid striker now has three matches without scoring.
In a system that relies on a single attacker, the figure of the attacker acquires a determine the weight having to support much of the team’s offensive production. Against Eibar, Fuentes was very conditioned by the strong marking of the central defenders, but his dryness It does not just respond to an individual problem.
The cause lies in the lack of ideas in three quarters of the field. Even if control of the ball was evident against the Eibar team -73% possession-, the green and white team once again showed serious difficulties in filter assists inside the box in front of a low block as closed as the one that Eibar planted at El Arcángel. This lack reduced the excesses and the ability to impose itself in the duels that Fuentes had on display throughout the season.
In the gray panorama, the positive note was once again on the side of the Cordoba defense. Iker Álvarez signed his second consecutive clean sheet and he did it without any problem. Although the central pair formed by Xavi Sintes and Rubén Alves were replaced during the match by Álex Martín and Alberto del Moral, Eibar failed to make a not a single shot on goal. Therefore, a reading that invites optimism is that when offensive success appears, Córdoba will have a solid defensive base to sustain the results.
Without support in the left-handed sector
Although it is true that Iván Ania has repeatedly had availability problems on the sides, the Oviedo coach has now three players on both sides. Although Juan María Alcedo is the only natural left back in the squad, Carlos Albarrán has an advantage thanks to his experience on a modified wing, which keeps him a starter on that side.
Defensively it’s not a big problem, but in the offensive phase Badalona suffers when attacking with your weaker lega discomfort that the player himself recognized after the match against Eibar.
“Depending on the games, I feel more comfortable and others more uncomfortable. Obviously in the attack in which I join, I note that maybe I’m more uncomfortable than playing on the right. The coach decides and he decides that I can help the team in this position, I try to do the best I can, sometimes I get the best, sometimes worse,” he explained.
With this little “handicap”, the poor level of the left winger means that the white-green wings are cracked. In search of solutions, the recent commitment of Iván Ania Jacob On the left, thanks to its versatility, it does not benefit from the generation of danger in this area. In the calculation of the season, the Madrid player has played more matches as a starter from midfieldan area in which he left good advantages as a link between defense and attack.
Dalisson and Kevin Medina They can also start on the left, but they have not managed to generate the overflow which gradually occurred on the right side with Carracedo more and more in tune.
Faced with this situation, when asked about Córdoba’s entry into the winter market, Iván Ania said that a possible palliative was in progress. Adilson’s recovery. “We are going to have a reinforcement who is Adilson, who is important for his depth and his overflow.” Despite strong expectations, the Blanquiverd sphereand you will have to be careful with the Lisbon native facing possible relapses after rupturing his cruciate ligament last March and still being in the final stages of his recovery.
Inaction of the judiciary
Contrary to what he demonstrated in previous meetings, Iván Ania achieved the five changes against Eibar. In search of solutions, in the middle of the second half, he introduced Kevin Medina by Isma Ruiz to have much more fang to find the goal which resisted so much. Despite this decision, sobriety has been maintained with a Málaga who has still not started despite the great expectations that were placed on him after his signing.
In the last trick, the Oviedo player entered Alberto del Moral, Alcedo and Sergi Guardiola. Fresh blood who could not avoid the bad final draw. As a usual trend, changes they generally do not subtract what Córdoba offers on the pitch, but this momentum does not translate into real impact.
Even if it is true that the green and white team is below the minimum With the injuries to Théo Zidane, Vilarrasa, Fomeyem, Diego Bri and Adilson, the “second unit” does not take advantage of this opportunity to have a bigger role when Cordoba’s legs start to weigh.
Even if the prospects are somewhat discouraging, Córdoba will say goodbye to this year next Sunday against the Mirandes. Like previous teams, the Jabato frame is still not carbureted and is immersed in the descent. So there is a golden opportunity for the green and white team to take flight again and say goodbye to 2025 with a good taste in their mouth.
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