Memorable promotion pages are filled with impossible stories, epic triumphs, goals that are celebrated with passion. Nobody imagines the rise of a team that walks and whistles with its hands in its pockets. Here we are talking about overcoming all the traps, defeating the most voracious enemies. Conquer an enemy castle. The epic game progresses through progression stages, turning a simple match into something more. A matter of faith and, if all goes well, a match that fans will always remember. Nothing more, nothing less – that’s what awaits Oviedo today (21:00, Ipurua): it’s not just a game, it’s an opportunity to achieve a result that Oviedo fans will never forget.
Ipurua and rocky Eibar are a prelude to promotion. The penultimate step, the one that, if you overcome it, will give you an encounter with glory. Who knows: perhaps a day to collect debts from the past.
The Blues travel with a difficult mission on their shoulders, but with a simplified record. This time it’s not about playing with the result or looking at other fields. This is much easier to explain; because Oviedo only needs to win. And this, Carrion explains, makes his team bolder and bolder.
You don’t have to go crazy either. There is no connection to overcome and no spirits of past exploits will need to be invoked. You only need to score one more goal than your opponent, and this can be done at 5 minutes, at 85 or even at 120. A draw at the end of normal time would send the match into extra time, but if it stayed in the middle, an extra hour would allow ” Eibar” to reach the final and take third place in the regular stage. Oviedo could only be sixth, and thank you: let no one forget that when Carrion took over, after a dispute on the sixth day, the Blues were fighting for penultimate place.
The feeling that Oviedo is about to become epic is reinforced by a mention made a few months ago. Is it difficult to get to Eibar in Ipurua? Yes, was it more difficult to come back from second place to the playoffs? Definitely. The historical data of the category shows that, besides Oviedo, only one team has done this before: España Industrial more than 70 years ago, specifically in the 1952/53 season.
So Oviedo de Carrion is doing well. This is what he demonstrated. He has overcome every obstacle to date with glory. He is three steps away from achieving a milestone for which he will be remembered. Go into the eternity of Oviedoism. Record the video that will get the most views on YouTube in the coming years.
The team will try to use their special casual and attacking style. At least that’s what Carrion said – and it is advisable to believe him, because he is a coach, consistent in his speech – who worked in El Requexon with a nuance in his drawing: goodbye to the 4-4-2 formation that only half worked in Goinga ; Hello again to 4-2-3-1.
Jaime Seoane, having served a one-match suspension, will be the main new addition in midfield, ahead of Luismi and Colombatto, behind Alemao. Boha Baston will be sacrificed first.
There seems to be no news on the remaining positions, so the team that will start the match in Ipurua will be the team formed by Leo Roman; Viti, Luengo, Calvo, Pomares; Luismi, Colombatto; Moyano, Seoane, Borja Sanchez; and German. The club announced yesterday that all players have been called up, but the injured (Taryn and Cazorla) and those lacking rhythm (Costas and Mario) will remain on the sidelines, so Braat, Lucas, Khomenchenko, Bretones, Jimmy, Yayo, Camarasa, Paulino, Dubasin, Maska, Millan and Baston. We will have to be attentive to changes, because in a match full of emotions, ups and downs, those who finish the match can be even more important than those who start it.
And all this, purely sporting, turned into a rich blue throughout the day in Eibar. As already happened a week and a half ago, in the dispute of the last day of the League, more Oviedo players are expected than indicated in the protocol.
Eibar gave the Blues 350 seats, which took only a few minutes to secure. But there will also be those who manage to go beyond this ticket package. There were almost half a thousand Oviedo fans on the pitch on the last day, and that’s expected to happen tonight.
And many more will follow from outside. Because, as then, there will be many others who have a trip planned without entry.
Some will scramble for a ticket at the last minute; Others are happy to support the team hours before the match and follow them to a bar near the stadium. A total of one thousand ovidistas per weekday are expected to be present throughout the day on the streets of Eibar to replicate the good atmosphere and harmony between both fans that arose just ten days ago. A great atmosphere on the day, emotional football and a feat to be won. The desired promotion to the first level occurs through Ipurua.