The fourth best team at home and the ninth away. Of the 58 points with which Castilla finished the League, He achieved 38 at home and only 20 away.where its balance is 9 losses, five draws and five wins. There is danger lurking for the whites ahead of the second leg of the promotion playoff tie in Sabadell: his irregular performances away from Di Stéfano. The white reserve team will travel with a good income after the 2-0 victory in the first leg, but they will have to remain on alert because there is disturbing precedents at home throughout the season. That is, results that would eliminate him despite the two-goal advantage achieved in the first confrontation.
The strength that Castilla has shown at the Di Stéfano has turned into a certain weakness in their performances away from home. Of the 19 games in the League, the reserve team suffered nine defeats and four of the results would leave them out of the playoff: Mérida (3-0), Unionistas (3-0), Arenas (4-1) and Cacereño (4-1). Plus a 4-2 against Tenerife that would take it to extra time. Five missteps that Castilla must keep in mind so as not to be surprised by Sabadell. The set of Julian Lopez de Lerma He has a good cushion to face the return, but he will have to avoid the disconnections that have penalized him on other occasions.
Two luxury reinforcements
For the second leg against Sabadell, corresponding to the first round of the ‘playoff’ for promotion to Second and that it will be played on Friday at 9:00 p.m. in the Nova Creu Alta (Orange TV, Movistar Plus+, Dazn and Football Club), Julián López de Lerma will recover two key players. Manuel Ángel and Forteaabsent in the first leg due to injury, are ready to return and become two luxury reinforcements in search of sealing their place in the final of the promotion promotion. The midfielder and the full-back seem to have already recovered from the muscle discomfort that had them out of combat and if there is no setback they will enter the call. Not like that Valdepeñaswho is still out after the fibula bruise he suffered against Arenas.