Celta 1 Levante 1: Granota find oil

Last update 2 December, 2012 by Alberto Llopis

Vigo's cold night hosted the game between Celta and Levante. Both teams needed the points for different reasons. The Vigueses sought to escape from the bottom of the table while the Granotas appeared in Balaidos with the intention of continuing at the top of the table.

The tone of the game was like almost always when the granotas play. Celta had possession of the match while Levante, The game matured to be able to catch his rival on the counterattack. The first 15 minutes gave time for two clear chances for each team. A shot by Iago Aspas for Celta, that he was going to leave Munúa's door almost. In the minute 13, Obafemi Martins was going to have a resounding chance to score, when in an acrobatic position he was going to shoot and the ball was going to bounce fortunately off the feet of Javi Varas, while he was jumping.

The game became dynamic in the following minutes despite not creating clear chances like those in the previous minutes.. Both teams shot at goal without much luck and the balls ended up either outside or in the hands of the goalkeepers without any major complications.. But in the minute 36, Celta was going to hit through Quique De Lucas. The Catalan was going to break Levante's defensive line to beat Munúa, in a blatant failure by the granota team's defense when it came to calling offside.

He 1-0 He forced JIM's people to row to try to get something positive out of their visit to Galicia, to carry the weight of the party, something in which the granota team does not feel at all comfortable. The Celtic, He kept the ball and reached the end of the first half with a partial victory for Celta de Vigo.

The second part started moving. De Lucas barely managed to finish a clear ball served from the right by Khron Delhi and that would have been the 2-0. Celta continued to press, Munúa had to intervene after a poisoned shot by De Lucas, without a doubt Celta's most dangerous man and the best in the game at that time.

The Vigues team continued to press and reach Munúa's goal while Levante was in a hurry to try to stop the Galician attacks.. Little by little Levante tried to escape the dominance of Paco Herrera's men. In the minute 14 in the second half Oba Martins was going to have the option to score again but his individual action was going to end with a shot that was going to go into the stands. De Lucas was going to miss a clamorous one a minute later and on that same play, against the granotas, Juanlu was going to forgive the tie again by shooting outside Varas' goal.

The granotas, spurred by the adverse result, They were going to take one more step to win the game. The ball was around Javi Varas' goal in what seemed like Levante's best moments. In the minute 20, Javi Varas himself was going to be about to give the goal to Martins but he was going to react in time to save the tie. However, the clearest chance was going to be for Celta. In that same minute, Munúa was going to save his team with a spectacular save. His former teammate Cabral was going to finish from point-blank range, forcing the Uruguayan goalkeeper to make a very worthwhile intervention..

The game accelerated and the last quarter of an hour was reached with the game open., with Levante trying to reach the Vigo goal and with Celta trying to maintain possession of the ball. JIM is there for everyone, He had taken Ángel out onto the field and gave Roger minutes, granota youth player and top scorer of the subsidiary. Levante put together three forwards in the last minutes of the game, the most offensive proposal in search of a tie could not be.

However, the chances were still for Celta, A shot by Iago Aspas forced Munúa to clear again. Celta began to show fatigue from Thursday's Cup match, but they managed to maintain the advantage. In the minute 42, Bermejo scored the second for Celta in an illegal position and the referee was going to annul the goal.

Levante tried with more heart than head in the final minutes, when the minute 44 in a quality play between Barkero and Michel , Roger was going to tie the game for Levante. The kid scored the other day in the Cup and repeated today in the League, in a spectacular week. In the end, points were distributed with the feeling of defeat for the Vigues team and victory for Levante that obtained oil during its visit to Balaidos..