The players of Sporting Gijón were excited, and on the way back to the hotel, they were still talking about today's game and the sudden burst of promotion ambitions. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Before the game, the head coach just mobilized the whole team, and the players also agreed with and supported Li Ang's words, play the next four games well, at least they have paid, worked hard, and have no regrets, and then it depends on God's arrangement, waiting for the opponent to make mistakes.

They then beat seventh-placed Tenerife 4-0 before receiving news of a draw from Cadiz after the game.

At the end of the first round, the seven-point gap narrowed by two points to five points.

Although this also means that the league can only play three rounds, the gap has been narrowed, which still makes the whole team excited.

The reason for the joy is not only that Cadiz was held to a draw by their opponents, but also that Sares, who was originally ranked in eighth place ahead of Sporting Gijón, lost this game to leaders Levante.

In this way, after 39 rounds of La Liga, Sporting Gijón has 64 points, and the ranking has also surpassed Tenerife and Sales, ranking seventh, behind Cadiz in sixth place.

This made the whole team excited and emotional, they are now really the sixth place chaser, and as long as they don't make mistakes, they don't need to worry about the team behind them catching up with them.

Or to be more precise, the next three rounds were a chase between seventh-placed Sporting Gijón and sixth-placed Cadiz.

In addition, the top three teams of Levante, Numancia and Getafe all won and these three teams remain in the top three with 75 points, 74 points and 74 points respectively.

Alaves, who are in fourth place, and Huelva, who are in fifth place, have drawn in this round of league games, and the points have become 71 and 70 points, and they continue to be in fourth and fifth places, and Cadiz in sixth place has 69 points.

Although fourth-placed Alaves and fifth-placed Huelva could theoretically be overtaken by Sporting Gijón, it is Cadiz that is the most realistic target for Sporting Gijón in the case of three rounds.

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The win over Tenerife narrowed the points gap with Cadiz.

Inside Sporting Gijón is a lot of excitement.

However, the whole team of Athletic Club Gijón has not revealed a hint of news that they want to attack the top six.

This is what Leon meant, he doesn't know if Cadiz, who is ranked sixth, is aware of the pursuit of Sporting Gijón and has a sense of crisis. Leon didn't have the heart to pay attention to his opponent's thoughts, his idea was to keep a low profile as much as possible, develop and catch up in a muffled voice.

If Cadiz thought he was five points ahead of Sporting Gijón and was resting on his back and forth in three rounds, then he would rather have his team like a viper hidden in the jungle, hiding until the last minute, when he took the most vicious bite.

Based on Leon's calculations, Cadiz should not have felt the crisis behind him...... Because, Sporting Gijón has always been shouting for relegation, and after the team succeeds in relegation ahead of schedule, everyone will think that Sporting Gijón will have no desire for the rest of the game, and few people will realize that Sporting Gijón has quietly adjusted its goals and suddenly made trouble.

In fact, as Leon expected, the sixth-placed Cadiz were unaware of the danger behind them, and they were even happy that Sporting Gijón had beaten Tenerife and held off Tenerife.

At the end of the last league game, seventh-placed Tenerife were five points behind Cadiz.

Now, with another round of the league played, Tenerife is held off by Sporting Gijón, who are now five points clear of Cadiz, despite being in seventh place.

The league has played another round, and the score difference of the chasers is still not close, which is a good thing. Sporting Gijón, a desireless opponent, always made them feel safer than Tenerife's long-time chaser.

And in the Gijón media, apart from continuing to cheer for Sporting Gijón's victory, no media has begun to realize the changes and ambitions that have taken place in this team.

Although there are also media, such as "Voice of Gijon", it is also mentioned that Sporting Gijón is now only five points away from the sixth-ranked Cadiz, but the media is also talking about it in an emotional tone, they are lamenting that Sporting Gijón could have had a chance to impact La Liga this season, but the poor results before Leon took over the team dragged the team back, and now they can only regret it.

In three rounds, the difference of five points by Cadiz was so great that even the "Voice of Gijón", which supported Leon and Sporting Gijón the most, did not realize Leon's ambitions......

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After this round of league play, two more relegated teams were produced.

Las Palmas, who are second from bottom of the league, and Almeria, who are third from bottom of the league, were relegated three rounds ahead of schedule.

This is good news for Leon and Sporting Gijón as their next league opponent is Las Palmas.

If Las Palmas still have any hope of relegation, then the match against Sporting Gijón will be a desperate one, and the energy of the relegation team is amazing.

And now, Las Palmas has been relegated, and their last bit of strength and fighting spirit has also dissipated with the relegation has been decided.

Leon is also keeping an eye on Las Palmas, their opponent in the next round of the league.

In fact, as he guessed, when the team still had hope of relegation, the players of this team were still able to work together to fight, and now that the team's relegation has been decided, Las Palmas immediately felt a little discouraged.

If the La Liga team is tall and the La B team is the best silk, then the third division league is equivalent to the abyss.

Not many players are willing to play in the third division with the team.

With the relegation of Las Palmas and Almeria, the two teams have also begun to be in turmoil, and the players have begun to find their own way.

According to the intelligence from Scottre, some of the players of Las Palmas have an unprecedentedly active agent, and they have begun to sell their players to these La Liga teams, as players of the relegated teams of La Liga, it is impossible to play in La Liga, and La Liga teams do not look down on them, so the main goal of these players is to want to transfer to La Liga teams.

A number of Las Palmas players have also started to contact Sporting Gijón with a desire to move to a team that will 'continue to play' in La Liga next season.

For Las Palmas' players, Leon is not to be looked up to. However, he is happy to see this situation, which shows that his opponent has no intention of fighting.

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June 6, 2004, Round 40 of La Liga.

Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain, Sporting Gijón is a guest at the De Gran Canaria Stadium in Las Palmas.

Las Palmas is a professional football club from Spain's Gran Canaria Islands, founded in 1949, one of the later clubs in the Spanish professional league, but in the 65 years they have been in the Spanish top flight. The best result in the club's history came in 1968/69, when Las Palas advanced to the continental stage under the leadership of the club's legendary goalscorer Jose León, who finished runners-up in the league ahead of Barcelona.

However, the team began to decline in the 80s, and since the 80s, Las Palmas have only played eight seasons in La Liga, and have been relegated to La Liga B twice, with the last time they played in La Liga back in 2001/02. Despite this, Las Palmas is still one of Spain's oldest clubs, with four La Liga titles, two La B titles, one La Liga runner-up and one Copa del Rey runner-up. The "Islands derby" between Las Palmas and Tenerife is also one of the hottest derbies in Spain.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that Las Palmas is not a team on the Iberian Peninsula, or it can be said that it is a team from Africa, where Las Palmas on the Gran Canary Islands is the largest city in the Canary Islands. Nestled in the Atlantic Ocean, this island is one of Spain's most popular tourist destinations, attracting millions of people every year. Despite being a Spanish territory, the city's proximity to Africa and the large number of immigrants from developed countries after World War II make the city not much Spanish-style, and the local inhabitants are quite different from the peninsula in terms of language and living customs. This has also contributed to the unique style of the island team of Las Palmas.

Of course, Leon has no time to sigh for this old Spanish team of 'African origin'.

At this moment, sitting in the coach's seat at the De Gran Canaria stadium, Leon crossed his legs.

At this time, the game had reached 80 minutes, the score on the field was 0-2, according to international practice, the home team in front, the away team in the back, the captain of the team Migul Kobas and the veteran Macour Pichra scored for the team at the beginning of the second half, Sporting Gijón took a 2-0 lead away, this game has no need to worry about Leon.

The camera gave a close-up of the head coach of Athletic Gijón, and Li Ang crossed Erlang's legs, with a leisurely appearance, which also attracted ridicule from the commentator.

"It looks like Coach Leon has started to enjoy his vacation early...... commentator Dagstino said with a smile.

"It's a shame for Sporting Gijón. "With their current form, if Coach Leon had coached this team earlier, they would have had a good chance of hitting the promotion spots this season, but it's a pity." ”

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Leon's mind was not as laid-back as his posture at this moment, and he was keeping an eye on the game on the other field, and he arranged for his assistant coach Banderas to listen to the game on the radio.

In the first half, Cadiz scored as they gave a 1-0 lead away to Sares.

Until now, Banderas has not come to update him on the latest developments, which means that the score has not changed, and Cadiz is still leading 1-0.

This made Li Ang's heart anxious.

If Cadiz wins this game, it means that with two rounds of league games remaining, Cadiz will continue to lead Sporting Gijón by five points, in which case, Sporting Gijón will have a hard time overtaking Cadiz and fighting for a sixth place......

The 40th round of the game, in Leon's mind, is a key match for whether Sporting Gijón can really hope to reach the promotion play-offs: the key point is not on the side of the match between Sporting Gijón and Las Palmas, but on the side of the game between Cadiz and Sares.

It was at this moment that he noticed that Banderas, who had been listening to the live broadcast of the game over there with headphones on, suddenly stood up excitedly......

ps: second update. (To be continued.) )