Real Valladolid will suffer until the last date of the football league. The team for which the Ecuadorian Gonzalo Plata plays, after another defeat, was only one point away from relegation to the second league, and there were still five days left until the end of the championship. It has 35 points and is in 16th place, and from 18th (which is Getafe who has 34 points) to 20th, the loss of the category is assured.

Last Thursday, Rayo Vallecano defeated Valladolid 2-1 and the red alert went off because the fight for survival does not stop and it will be from now on in conditions where there will be no more room for Valladolid’s mistakes.

In the opinion column, that’s what the newspaper says AS, from Madrid, about the new debacle: “Victory against Villarreal and Girona offered an important cushion to Real Valladolid, which dropped to one point with three consecutive defeats. This league is rare and no one knows how many points will be saved. The fight for relegation is intensifying with direct clashes and five games to be played in the next month”.

‘Super’

Meanwhile, in the case of silver, the pendulum is swinging towards significant returns, and in others, the tricolor effect indicates disappointment. Because of this aspect of the expressed irregularity, in recent days the opinions of sports journalism about the actions of the 22-year-old from Guayaquil have ranged from glowing praise to lapidary reproaches.

The previous April 30, despite the “deceiving victory”, as he defined it Earth After the 5-2 defeat against Atlético de Madrid, Plata’s role was praised. The world of sports, from Barcelona, ​​commented: “Gonzalo Plata was brilliant. The electrical extreme that led to the greatest danger for the bare mattress. An impressive performance, and he is only 22 years old. It won’t last long in Pucel… If they didn’t follow him in the technical office of the Metropolitan (Atletica stadium), they will start doing it”.

two faces of silver

In the individual analysis he conducted ASAfter the terrible result against Atlético, de Plata said of himself: “In the first half hour he did three great things, but they ended badly. That caused, whatever it was, a 1-3 penalty. They always ask for more and that’s why it left a feeling of scarcity again, although it improved a lot compared to the clash at the Mestalla”.

Evaluating Silver by the same newspaper, for what was done against Rayo Vallecano, the 2019 South American U-20 champion expressed his opinion: “He was completely unsuccessful in the first half, in which there was nothing: he lost a third of the ball that had and didn’t complete a single dribble. Another one that was from that no”. (D)