Those of Eder Sarabia, after making their debut in the Second Division beating Oviedo, visit Sporting this Saturday
Andorra arrives without any casualties. Martí Riverola and Roger Riera have not traveled since they have been ruled out by the club
Andorra, after debuting with victory in the Carlos Tartiere against Oviedo, will seek to fish this Saturday in a troubled river in the Molinón. Eder Sarabia’s men, with the entire squad fully available, face a rival who arrives at the match after drawing 1-1 against Mirandés in Anduva. The game by the Asturians left Abelardo ‘Pitu’ Fernández unsatisfied and those from the Principality will try to surprise their rival just as they did against Jon Pérez Bolo’s Real Oviedo.
Those of the Principality continue on ‘tour’ since they are pending the end of the works of the National Stadium of Andorra. During the week they trained at the Ciudad Deportiva del Requexón and with a good taste in their mouths after beating Oviedo in discount time with a goal from Pau Casadesús.
The Basque coach still does not have the discarded Martí Riverola and Roger Riera who stayed in the Principality since the club is working on the termination of their contracts. While Jaume Nogués, Andorra’s sports director, continues to work on the signing of a central defender and three attacking players.
The tricolor team visits El Molinón-Enrique Castro ‘Quini’ for the first time in its history and Eder Sarabia will continue to rely, as he always does, on his possession style of play. In fact, Sarabia’s men led the ranking of short passes on the first day of the SmartBank League. According to statistics from the specialized website Sofascore, Andorra attempted up to 651 passes and of these, 572 were successful.
Sporting is presented
For its part, Sporting de Gijón will look for their first victory of the season in his debut at El Molinón against the recently promoted Andorra in a match in which the local fans will have the opportunity to see live the new sports project led by Abelardo and with many new faces in the starting eleven.
The team from Gijón started the league with a tie at the Mirandés field after which Abelardo acknowledged thatthere are many things to improvesomething logical since there are many new players who are in the process of adaptation.
Abelardo surprised on the first day by giving the alternative to a youngster from the subsidiary, Dani Queipo, who put in a good performance confirming the confidence shown by the coach after the work done throughout the preseason.
The coach will not be able to count on the winger Jony to receive Andorrawho suffers from muscular discomfort in one thigh, while throughout the week Fran Villalba and Gaspar Campos have left on loan to different teams: the first because they did not count for the coach due to their lack of involvement and the second so that he has more minutes than he was going to have in Gijón.
Against Mirandés, Abelardo opted for Guille Rosas on the right side but the youth squad did not respond to what the coach expected of him, which is why doubts are generated in that position since it remains to be seen whether he will maintain his confidence in the youngster or give the alternative to Pol Valentín, signed to cover that position.
The coach does not trust Andorra at all, which he considers to have a team that moves the ball very well and that Real Oviedo was surprised on the first matchday, so he warns that he will not tolerate the slightest relaxation.
Likely lineups:
Sporting: Marino, Guille Rosas, Insua, Izquierdoz, Cote. Gragera, Pedro Díaz, Otero, Queipo, Cristo González and Djurdjevic.
Andorra: Raul Lizoain; ‘Petxa’, Diego Alende, Adrià Vilanova, Martí Vilà; Sergio Molina, Marc Aguado; Rubén Bover, Marc Fernández, Jacobo González; Carlos Martinez.
Referee: Rafael Sanchez Lopez.
Stadium: The Molinon
Hour: 5:30 p.m.