He Real Valladolid faces its particular Olympic participation this Saturday, August 31, starting at 5:00 p.m. A collective trip to 1992 and a current trip to Barcelona to visit the LaLiga leader EA Sports in the duel that opens this fourth day competition at the top of Spanish football. The Lluís Companys awaits a Pucela that wants to win a medal on a stage where legends of the sport did so more than 30 years agoand with that ambition he prepares a clash that monopolizes the spotlights of the football planet.
Con four points To their credit, the Castilians start this date in eleventh position. The victory against Espanyol and the draw against Leganésboth at home and with a clean sheet, are the Blanquivioleta baggage, which reaped its defeat in the visit to the Bernabéu. For its part, FC Barcelona remains undefeated after beating Valencia, Athletic Club and Rayo Vallecano, all three by 2-1only one of them at home. This makes the Catalans the rival to beat at the start of the season, who also have the top scorer, the Polish Lewandowskiwith three targets. One historically complicated visit for Real Valladolid, who face their forty-seventh visit to the Blaugrana with only two victories achieved, in 1987 with the remembered treble of Manolo Peñaand in 97/98 thanks to the goals of Eusebio y Peternac.
And good timethis 2024 with the return to the First Division and the will of consolidate this positionto surprise one of the best teams in the world. The mister Paulo Pezzolano He pointed out that defending well and converting the opportunities available are key, scenery where knowing how to suffer is also going to be something important before the predictable push of the culé“There are moments that will take you to a low block, but in these games it is vital to convert the chances you have. Defend well and convert chances“, analyzed the pucelano coach before the match, who insisted that “you have to know how to play in all parts of the field, know how to suffer and try to convert the few chances we have«. The person in charge of directing this meeting will be the man from La Mancha Diaz de Mera Squiresborn in Ciudad Real in 1989 and for whom this is his fifth season in the elite.
The referee has agreed with Real Valladolid in eleven timesboth in the First and Second Division. Six of them -five away from home-, were in the top category, divided into the 2020/21 and 2022/23 seasons, and the balance is not very positive for the Blanquivioletas, who had one victory, two draws and three defeats. In that last season they tied 1-1 against Elche and fell against the Athletic by 3-0 and the Ray 2-1. After four seasons in the Second Division, Díaz de Mera Escuderos rose to the elite in the campaign 2020/21that of Covid-19, behind closed doors, to be in charge of controlling three more matches with mixed results of 1-2 against Eibar In Zorrilla, victory 0-1 in Getafe and a 1-1 draw against the gunsmiths in Ipurua.
It was the November 12, 2016 when this referee and Pucela met for the first time, with Elche winning 2-0. In the 2017/18 seasonalso in the silver category, this match took place in four games, three in the regular league with a 4-2 in Pamplona, 1-1 against Rayo in Zorrilla, and 0-1 in the Pajaritos de Soria, and another in the promotion playoff by 3-1 against Sporting in the first leg of the semi-final in which the longed-for goal.
