I don’t know if anyone else keeps an eye on the Second Division and lower leagues in Spain, I generally like to keep an eye on what is going on to some extent. There are various teams who have been in La Liga in my years following Spanish football that I like to see how they get on and so forth.
As a fellow Andalucian club (and they have a beautiful little stadium), I like to see how Cadiz do, and they are just about scraping to the league title by the looks of it having held a 12 point lead at one point. It looks like a three way battle for second between Huesca, Real Zaragoza and Almeria who sacked former Real Madrid player Guti last week after an awful run of results.
The other play off places realistically could be 3 from 6 (Girona, Elche, Rayo Vallecano, Tenerife, Alcorcon, or Fuenlabarda).
At the bottom Racing, poor old Racing have slipped through the trapdoor already. I really feel sorry for that club, they deserve so much better. Extremadura, Lugo and Real Oviedo occupy the other 3 spots, although realistically with 4 games to play looking at the table anyone in the bottom half, including Fuenlabrada who I also mentioned in the Play off race could be sucked in.
Not a lot to talk about in the lower leagues right now obviously as the season was voided a while back. Not sure what they are going to do about promotions etc mind you?
I have a Thing for Depor, when I was a Little kid, they had Alberto Luque, Diego Tristan and a Dutch Striker that would always score Roy Makaay. Sometimes a player can make u connect.They were like outsiders that no one cared about, even though they had some awesome years with some title runs and throphies even. I still follow them a bit, but they will need some time to recover and hard reset after all the Financial Misery. After they tried to outgrow themselves.
Another Depor fan here. I love the derby they have, I love the way like Sevilla they are club before country (being a Liverpool fan this is always appealing), watched them in the 90’s and will always have a soft spot for them.
I found out recently as well that a lot of Sevilla fans have Depor as their second team. It was meant to be.
Wow… 7 positives? They must have had the virus at least a few days before, which means could’ve infected many others (teammates, opponents, referees, staff etc.)
Painfull for Depor, but I believe they will be back, hopefully as soon as possible. A team that should be in la Liga.
For Leeds it took almost 16 years of misery. Let’s hope it won’t go lthat bad. For them I am glad they are back to, i have some nice memories of their teams in the past with Viduka, Kewell, Ferdinand and Alan Smith who was one of my idols those times.
For the play offs of the Segunda I have a slight favorite in Almería, but any of the other contenders I don´t mind.
Even a draw (61 points) will see Fuenlabrada in play-offs as they have a better h2h vs Elche. The match will either not be played due to loss of interest or protest from Depor, or if played, Fuenlabrada will take at least a point, can’t see it happen differently, but you never know these days haha.
Insane and possibly illegal, poor Deportivo have got the butt end of a stitch-up, time to get the lawyers involved. If a team cannot compete, the result should go to the opposing team, it’s just the fairest option.
