Spain

Segunda B Division

Group 1

Sunday 9th February 2020

Kick Off 12.00 Actual 12.01

Real Club Celta Vigo ‘B’ 3 Sociedad Cultural Recreativa Pena Deportiva 1, attendance 475

12’ 1-0

73’ 2-0

81’ 2-1 (pen)

84’ 3-1

@ Campo de Futbol Municipal de Barreiro

Avenida de Ramon Nieto 326

Barreiro

36214 Vigo

€15 Admission

Team Sheet, free.

It was an early start today to do a match in the third level of the national league. The 271 mile journey west to the Galician coast took just shy of 4 hours. If the match at Real Valladolid C.F. hadn’t been moved to Saturday evening, we would have had a much easier 1 hour 25 minute drive from Braga instead, but everything doesn’t always go to plan.

The ground here is owned by Vigo City Council and as well as hosting Celta ‘B’ games it is also home to Gran Pena F.C., who play in the fifth level of Spanish football. Capacity is given as 4,500, which is generous to say the least. Perhaps, like the attendance figures for this match, it is rather inflated. My crowd count of 475 was well short of the 750 and 900 crowds quoted in the newspapers at the hotel!

The result was not expected. Celta came into this match in eighteenth place (third bottom) in the league table, whilst Pena Deportiva, who are from the island of Ibiza, were in fifth place, only being outside the promotion play off places due to having an inferior goal difference. A mazy run, beating three players, ended with a shot into the far corner of the net to open the scoring for Celta after twelve minutes. The second goal didn’t come until the seventy third minute, when a cross from the left was headed in to make it 2-0. Pena Deportiva were back in it when they scored a penalty with just under ten minutes left, but within a few minutes it was 3-1, when a free kick was curled into the box and headed down into the bottom corner of the net.