Penultimate matchday and penultimate edition of LaLiga Overtime before the end of 2023, and yes, Girona continue, against all odds, as leaders of the competition. Only Real Madrid, who beat Villarreal, are still in the lead.
Meanwhile, Atlético de Madrid and Barça both failed to win and, from the Basque Country, two rivals can be seen: Athletic Club and Real Sociedad, who could threaten the Champions League places. As for relegation, Celta‘s win tightens the relegation situation and Sevilla continue with their own drama. An intense day with three protagonists: Sevilla, Larsen and Chris Ramos.
LaLiga Overtime – Match Day #17:
The disaster called Sevilla:
“They say you never give up”. This phrase is one of the insignia of sevillism impregnated in the anthem that always carries the Nervión team in the air every time they step on the lawn of the Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán. But this season, the only ones who can say that they never give up are the Sevilla fans, who have seen what a disgrace their team has become.
Last season showed signs that something wasn’t right, but a common medicine for Sevilla fans, the Europa League, brought them out of the critical state they were in. A cure that calms the pain temporarily, but not forever. And after a spectacular last title, carved out by anthological feats, Sevilla is currently a disaster as a whole.
There is turmoil within the board, there is no captain to command the ship from the bench and many players don’t have the level or the character to wear the shirt of a historic team in Spanish football.
After the disaster that has been Diego Alonso, the first coach with more than seven LaLiga matches without a win, Quique Sánchez Flores is in charge of reviving Sevilla. A complicated task, because this Sevilla is a bloody disaster.
A Viking is on the loose in Vigo:
By the middle of the 9th century, Vikings arrived to the Galician coasts. A lineage that remained in the northern Spanish community for approximately 150 years. Well, 1,000 years later, a new Viking has appeared and has become another Galician. With the Norwegian name Jørgen, in Galician ‘Xurxo’, Larsen is the idol of Celta.
A charisma that exceeds any measuring device, a crazy desire to be noticed and the determination to be part of the community, learning Galician and Castilian, make Larsen a reference in the Celtic parish. Despite a complicated first year, in which he only scored four goals, this year he has improved in all aspects.
Larsen is Celta’s top scorer this season. His six goals have helped Rafa Benítez‘s team to stay in the standings. In addition, he has scored in the two victories of the team (Almería and Granada).
This weekend against the Nazarí team he scored one of the goals of the day. A cracking back-heel that lifted the entire Balaídos stand. A stand that cheers day in and day out to the Norwegian giant. A Viking who is already more Galician than the octopus that Luca De La Torre has enjoyed after the victory of the weekend.
Chris Ramos, the goal worker:
This is more than a personal opinion, but I have to tell it. I have a special affection for warrior forwards. Those that you send them into a war against the entire opposing defense and they are able to generate things. And I can’t think of a better context to find such a striker than in Cádiz, more specifically, in the figure of Chris Ramos.
The striker is a relief for Sergio González. He is what is called a goal scorer. He won’t have the class or definition of others, but you know that every goal he scores is an example of pundonor, effort and perseverance. And that is Chris Ramos, a worker under Sergio’s orders who will do everything possible for Cádiz to achieve salvation.
As if the character of Ramos weren’t enough, sentimentality is a fundamental part of the player. Chris Ramos is a Cadista, a faithful follower of the Cadiz since he was a child. He is a footballer who is fulfilling a dream and will do everything possible so that it doesn’t become a nightmare.
This week against Unión Deportiva Las Palmas he became an airplane. He appeared in a corner as if it were Puyol against Germany to give Cádiz a valuable point. A point of mine, a point harvested by the worker of the goal, by Chris Ramos, deserved protagonist of LaLiga Overtime of this matchday.
Translated by Marcos Rodríguez.
Main image: Edit Pablo Benítez.
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