Cultural 1 Real Oviedo 3

Los Carbayones win on the road

Invasion of Leon as Oviedo win again

Real Oviedo roared on by over 4,000 travelling fans made the trip to Leon to face Cultural Leonesa. It was an incredible scene seeing all the Oviedo fans in the stadium with waves of blue down one whole side of the stadium. Outside the ground and it was like a blue invasion as Oviedista’s were determined to enjoy their day and make the most of their trip.

Sergio Egea made just one change to the starting line up with Sergio Garcia coming into the side at the expense of Eneko down the left hand side.

Real Oviedo dominated the first half and it was a surprise it took until the 26^th minute for them to open the scoring. Despite all the good football and chances created, the first goal was handed to them on a plate. Cultural goalkeeper Leandro tried to be too clever by taking on Linares but only managed to gift it to the striker who rolled the ball into an empty net.

Completely against the run of play Cultural equalised on 35 minutes and again it was a team creating their own problems. A clumsy challenge by Sergio Garcia in the box left the referee with little option other than to award a penalty. Aketxe tucked home his spot kick despite Esteban guessing the right way. It was just inside the post though out of the keepers reach.

Real Oviedo managed to go into the break ahead though as they scored just before the interval. Generelo timed his run perfectly to meet Susaeta’s whipped in corner to head home from six yards to give the visitors a thoroughly deserved half time lead. It was a more even game in the 2^nd half with not as many chances. Cultural gave Oviedo a scare on 72 minutes when they hit the bar with a header from a free kick but other than that there were not many scares. The game was finally sealed in the last minute of injury time when Susaeta spotted the run of substitute Omgba and played a defence splitting reverse pass, timed to perfection. It wiped the entire defence out of the game and left Omgba with a one on one with the keeper. He chose to shoot early and slotted it home with ease past Leandro to make the score Cultural 1 Real Oviedo 3.

It was another good performance by Los Carbayones and our third win of the season and our third by the same score line. It moves us up to second place in the table where we are two points behind Guijuelo.

Guijuelo are top courtesy of the fact they are the only team with maximum points from their four games. This week they beat Somozas 2-0. Coruxo are doing well and are up to third in the table after an impressive 1-0 away win at Real Aviles. The leaders at the start of the weekend were Celta B but they were surprisingly beaten at home 2-0 by Astorga. Zamora also had an impressive win on the road 2-1 at Racing Ferrol who despite being tipped by many for good things find themselves at the wrong end of the table. Real Murcia were also away winners with a 1-0 success at Marino. Yet another away win came at Vallodolid B where Compostela were  3-2 victors. Burgos edged a five goal thriller against Gijon B where they ran out 3-2 winners. Lealtad picked up their first win with a 3-1 success over fellow promoted rivals Union Langreo. Tropezon lost the final game of the weekend and slip to 19^th spot in the table after a 4-1 thumping at UD Logrones.

Next week we return to the Carlos Tartiere for our toughest test of the season when its 2^nd versus 1^st as we welcome Guijuelo for an early season top of the table clash.