This Sunday, the Leganes has certified his promotion to the highest category of Spanish football after four years in Second. An achievement in line with the rest of the season, since shortly after the start of the competition they took the leadership of the Hypermotion League with up to thirty days in which leaders slept.
Of course, so that the fans of the blue and white team could once again celebrate their team’s rise to First Division, they had to wait until last match of the regular competition on the last night of this weekend. It was then when those of Borja Jiménez managed to return to the path of victory with a solid 2-0 against Elchewhich has placed them two points above the Valladolid and three above Eibarthe latter team that when left in third position must play the play-offs.
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The milestone is even greater if we take into account that it is the second time in team history in which they get a direct promotion, the first that they can celebrate on the field with their followers. In fact, until now all his promotions had been at homeexcept when they managed go up to Second Division in 1993precisely also against Elche.
The return of Leganés has come in a season in which, in addition, It was not included in the predictions that of the team they were made of, with a squad made up of very different players of those who got that first promotion to First Division in 2016with the exception of Miramonwho after leaving in 2016 returned to the ‘pepinero’ club in 2022.
There, in the elite of Spanish football, he remained for four seasonsuntil in a fateful 2020 in which They lost their two best forwards -In Nesyri, to Sevilla, and Braithwaite, to Barça- and They were relegated on the last day against Real Madrid. In that last game, furthermore, A more than possible penalty was not called of Jovic in the final minutes of the match, when the white striker deflected a ball with his hand inside the area. Leganés had managed to add eleven points in the last five games of the season, but in the end the miracle was not possible.
The achievement of achieving a new Lega adventure in La Liga has a main person responsible: Borja Jimenez. The Ávila coach has achieved a promotion that did not seem possible and the best match of players like Dani Raba, Diego García, Miguel de la Fuente, Jorge Sáenz, Sergio González, Franquesa or Diego Conde. “We had players with their national team and injuredand those who came out in their place they did well and settled”, he explained in an interview with Marca at the end of March.
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On this last occasion, they were Miguelto the ten minutes of the gameand Juan Cruzfive minutes after the start second part, who scored the two goals that have led the team to the First Division. Already in the second half he could see how the stands celebrated the promotionwith loud applause for other key players such as Nyom and Portillo.
In the end, as the coach has continually reminded from his first weeks on the benchthe credit has been everyone’s because they have always tried to keep the group above all the rest. It seems that this formula has been successful: four years later, Leganés returns to First Division.
