Celebration of a Córdoba team that gets into the playoff final, where Barcelona Atlètic awaits them, after suffering with suffering a Ponferradina team that never gave up and with Borja Valle’s equalizer at match time he put fear into the caliphs. Kike Márquez put the finishing touch to the green and white pass from eleven meters already in added time.
In a electrifying atmosphere from the arrival of Córdoba to the stadium, with a full house at El Arcángel and an a cappella anthem, a brave departure from Deportiva. But Córdoba had the success of hitting the first one they had, a long ball over Casas with skill in oriented control and the volley of the ram, one to zero.
The tie had a green and white tone and Ponferradina went up, generating danger from set pieces and almost always from the boots of Yeray Cabanzón against a Córdoba that defended itself with order and took out dangerous counters, annulling Zalazar’s 2-0 due to offside in one of them.
Iván Ania’s local team knew how to cool down the match until they sealed the break with the advantage in their favor despite an intentional header in the race by Ale Díez who narrowly missed out.
In the second period the Caliphs came out with enthusiasm and generated a couple of dangerous arrivals, but soon it was Ponferradina that once again took possession of possession with the locals well equipped at the back.
Adilson Mendes warned in some electric percussions on the left while the clock played in favor of Córdoba interests. The Bercians did not give up and after the hour mark, Borja Valle pushed a previous shot by Igbekeme from close range to make the score 1-1.
A lot of tension from that moment until the end, with chances from the Blanquiverdes on the counter and a shot from Dacosta, low and powerful, that went inches from the post in the best of Ponferradina.
The match got muddy in the final stretch with many clashes and interruptions, that ‘other football’ in power, until A penalty for Sibille slapping Simo allowed Kike Márquez to unleash the Córdoba madness with the two to one. Two red cards for Yuri and Leiva for ‘greeting’ each other dirty the final file, with Córdoba party before more than 21,000 spectators.
DATA SHEET
Córdoba CF: Carlos Marín; Albarrán, Matías, Lapeña, Calderón; Isma Ruiz, Diarra (Álex Sala, 95′); Carracedo (Leiva, 84′), Zalazar (Kike Márquez, 73′), Adilson Mendes (Simo, 84′); Houses (Toril, 73′).
SD Ponferradina: Andrés Prieto; Carrique (Nil, 72′), Sibille, Andújar, Ale Díez; Igbekeme, Clavería; Yeray, Ernesto (Josep Cerdá, 83′), Dacosta (Yuri, 77′); Borja Valle (Longo, 83′).
Goals: 1-0 (6′): Houses. 1-1 (62′): Borja Valle. 2-1 (93′): Kike Márquez, penalty.
Referee: Juan Antonio Campos Salinas (Murcian school). Direct red to the local Leiva (94′) and the visitor Yuri (94′). Yellow to the locals Lapeña (54′), Albarrán (69′), Simo (97′) and Álex Sala (99′); and the visitors Sibille (54′), Carrique (65′), Clavería (75′), Borja Valle (78′) and Igbekeme (90′).
Incidents: The Archangel. A total of 21,245 spectators.
