• Second, this is the classification

To find a more solid team at this stage of competition than this Cádiz , firm leader of Segunda on day 11, it is necessary to go back more than 20 years, specifically until the 96-97 season. Then, Mérida added 30 points out of 33 possible, 90.1% of the total. Today, the Cadiz team accumulates 28, 84%. In short, he is the second best leader in the history of the silver division since the triumph gives three points .

But this is not the only record crushed by the team of Álvaro Cervera , who has also matched the best league start of the club in its 109 years of life. That record dated from 1939, the season in which Cádiz also added nine wins, a draw and a loss in the first 11 days of Second.

Last Saturday, with a very worked victory in La Rosaleda against Málaga (1-2), the leader reaffirmed his power. Nine points of advantage over Almeria and Zaragoza , its two closest pursuers. A world at this point. But in the Ramón de Carranza they call for prudence, aware of the treacherous journey in which the Second Division can be converted, where the winners in autumn tend to suffer lethal crises during the spring. "We have to keep our feet on the ground," says Anthony Choco Lozano in a telephone conversation with this newspaper. "It is true that we have had a very good start, but this is very long and in this category you can always reach the lows," says the Honduran, pichichi, next to Álex Fernández , with four goals in his first year in Cádiz.

The 26-year-old forward, on loan from Girona, perfectly represents the sweet moment that the club in Spain's longest-lived city is going through. He has seen goal in the last four games, all counted by victories. «I am very happy to be living this moment. I'm on a roll, but it's due to the work of all my classmates; We are a very solid group, ”says Lozano, who in just four months confesses to having“ fallen in love ”with the city: “ Cádiz is the type of place I like to live in. I enjoy the sea a lot and going out to eat with my wife and daughter. We are delighted » .

"We do a practical football"

The style of the painting directed by Álvaro Cervera is easily recognizable. Cádiz is the team with the lowest average possession in the entire Second Division. Against Málaga, last Saturday, he stayed at 25%. «We made a practical football», explains Lozano, who comes from a completely opposite football in Girona: «It has been difficult for me to adapt because there was a game more of dominance and here of withdrawal and speed. The team perfectly embodies what the coach asks ». Deployment and speed, as Lozano expresses, is the secret of the now maximum aspirant for promotion.

However, that a priori little possession data is not limited to a weak offensive game. Cádiz is the most scorer team in the entire competition (18 points), ahead of Rayo Vallecano (17) and Almería (16). «We are full of morals. We look at the standings after each game, but we try to keep our feet on the ground . There is much to do, ”explains the tip.

Another of those who in recent weeks has been responsible for lowering euphoria has been Álvaro Cervera himself. After the agonizing triumph against Málaga, the coach asked his players for "tranquility", but not for his fans: "We invite our fans to dream everything they want . "

Ramón de Carranza has not lived the happiness of the First Division since 2006 . The objective, although still distant (31 days remaining), is already impregnated in the changing room environment. "If we talk about being able to ascend, we don't allow ourselves to talk about it, but we know that much remains to be done," says Lozano, perfectly integrated into a group in which the twinning lunches and dinners after the victories are sacred . Now, they want the biggest celebration to come in the form of promotion there by May. As Aristotle said, prudence is a key virtue in man. Although Aristotle did not live in Cádiz, of course.

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