Mallorca will be playing away against Alcoyano tomorrow.
What would be an accurate description of Alcoyano? Well, I guess it would be a 3rd level club that almost always fights for promotion to Segunda, but almost never makes it. They are a typical Segunda B club, having spent their entire history in this division, except for their glorious 40s and 50s (where they played in Segunda, and even briefly in Primera), and their disastrous late 90s and early 00s (where they dropped to the 4th level).
So yeah, they're always one of the strongest teams in the group, and a tough nut to crack with all that experience in the division. However, their start so far this season has been underwhelming, with only 1 win in 6 games. But tbf they've also only lost 1 as well, showing that they are really hard to beat.
This will probably be a tough one for Mallorca, and one of those away games where a draw normally leaves you satisfied... but we since we have a the better team and we're in good form, we should fight for the victory.
Bonus trivia: When Alcoyano had their brief spell in Primera, they gained a reputation for their fighting spirit, even when they were being demolished by better teams and they were down by 4 or 5 goals. We have a saying here in Spain, that jokingly goes like this: "you've got more spirit than Alcoyano, which would ask the referee for extra time to try and turn around a 10-0 loss"... we use it when someone stubbornly goes on with a lost case, thinking that they will manage to turn things to his/her favour dispite it being pretty much impossible.
This post was edited by zarkadon on Sep 30 2017 03:56am