Clinging to statistics is not going to make Córdoba ascend by decree to the Second Division, but it is evidence that the trend is repeated and that, numbers in hand, having had a great season opens the doors to success wide open. At least if we stick to the data. These speak very clearly: since the creation of this category (just three seasons ago), Three of the last four teams that finished second in the regular league have managed to make the leap to professional football.. Only Deportivo (in extra time) let him escape. The rest rose: Villarreal B, Alcorcón and Eldense.
No team with home field advantage has been eliminated
But the data is even more compelling if we take as reference the play-off for promotion to Second from last season and the first round of the current one. These have been the only ones that have been played under the round-trip format. The first year, in which Deportivo fell by the wayside, they were played in a single match spread over several venues. Something that the RFEF rectified and that is making it possible to give a real advantage to those who have achieved the most merit during the campaign. And that, evidently, is being noticed. Nothing is a casuality.
Because, as Pedro González’s account on Twitter (@Peter26582) points out, the ten ties that have been played over two legs have ended up falling on the local side. Last season Alcorcón and Eldense (second) met in the finals against Castellón and Real Madrid Castilla (third). The glory went to potters and Eldenses. On this occasion, Córdoba and Nàstic as second, in addition to Málaga and Barça Atlètic as third, will decide whether or not to break the trend.
Barça Atlètic, forced to win a match in the final
This being the case, and although football is unpredictable, these references give Iván Ania’s team even greater confidence to face the final for promotion to Second with full guarantees. Because, with these advantages, two draws would be enough to return to professional football (of course, taking the route of extra time in El Arcángel). In any case, what is clear is that If the Barcelona reserve team wants to eliminate Córdoba from the map, it absolutely needs to win at least one match to the green and white team. They’re just numbers, but… better to have them as allies.
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