Sporting de Gijón 1-1 Barcelona Getafe: contexto, ambiente y crónica del partido

El partido entre Sporting de Gijón, Barcelona y Getafe aparece asociado a dos referencias diferentes: la crónica de la histórica vuelta del Sporting a Primera División frente al Barcelona terminó con una derrota por 1-6, mientras que el resultado Sporting de Gijón 1-1 corresponde a un empate registrado en otra jornada. La información disponible también incluye una ficha de partido con acontecimientos, alineaciones y estadísticas que no coinciden con la crónica del encuentro ante el Barcelona.

En la visita del Barcelona a El Molinón, el Sporting de Gijón vivió una noche extraordinaria por el regreso del fútbol de Primera a Asturias después de más de una década, aunque el marcador final fue contundente: Barcelona se impuso por 6-1. El ambiente del estadio, la expectación en la ciudad y la entrega de los aficionados contrastaron con la fragilidad defensiva del equipo local.

El regreso del Sporting de Gijón a la élite

Along the Playa de San Lorenzo they came, pouring out of bars in red and white shirts and with magnificent mullets. Along the Piles river, through the park and down the avenues, carrying buckets of booze. Flags hung from balconies and swirling scarves from wrists.

They were all there, from the kids in full kit, right down to the shin-pads and boots, to the bloke with the gravity-defying belly surely hiding a cantilever construction under his keks and the old men with their flat caps and pin badges, GS intertwined proudly on their lapels. Scrawled signs, a week old and curling at the edges, declared tickets sold out.

It was Real Sporting de Gijón versus FC Barcelona and it was a big, big night. One for which they'd waited for over a decade. And it was hard not to get a little misty-eyed.

After all, as the Spanish phrase goes, it's rained since then. Especially in Gijón. In 1998, Athletic Bilbao were the country's second best club, Recreativo de Huelva were down in the regional Second Division B, and so were Málaga.

Getafe were down there too, a tiny team that had never played in the First Division and were never going to either, while Villarreal were preparing for a first ever, one-way trip to the Primera División, and Almería didn't even exist.

As for Sporting Gijón, they departed after 27 seasons in the top flight. Bottom of the table, a colossal 32 points from safety, they were relegated to the Second Division.

A big club with a proud history, they should have come straight back up; torn apart by financial crisis and political meddling, they didn't. Until now.

Sporting may have already made their First Division debut against Getafe and travelled to Sevilla but the big time finally rode back into Gijón this weekend.

When FC Barcelona arrived on Sunday evening, Sporting Gijón knew they had arrived too - a decade on. At long last, the club with a 103 year history, the oldest stadium in Spain, and the Oscar for Best Foreign Film, featuring former defender Antonio Maceda and current president Manuel Vega-Arango, was back where it belonged.

At last, the cameras were back in the Molinón, local reporters interviewing national and international ones, scarcely able to believe that they were here. In Gijón.

Fans gathered in their thousands at the airport and the hotel, even less able to believe that Leo Messi was here too. At last La Nueva España and La Voz de Asturias could write about a real team.

At last, FC Barcelona were the visitors. Not Éibar or Elche, Barcelona! At last, fans could see their side lead the national news; at last the Sunday night round-ups opened on the rojiblancos.

At last, Asturias took centre stage - and not because a bloke with a funny shaped jaw could drive a very fast car very fast.

Una noche para Gijón y Asturias

And that was part of the point. It wasn't just that the big time rode back into Gijón this weekend, it was that the big time rode back into Asturias, the one corner of the country never conquered by the Moors, a principality sadly starved for seven sickening seasons.

Because not only were Sporting relegated in 1998, rivals Real Oviedo followed three years later, slipping two divisions in a single summer, suffering one relegation on the pitch and one at the hands of the Federation, and eventually plummeting to the 18-division tercera.

Two of the country's biggest clubs, even now 15th and 16th in the all-time list, suppliers of some of the country's great talents, Pichicis and Zamoras among them, left Asturias orphaned - the most important autonomous community in the country without a team in the First Division.

Worse still, they left Spanish football orphaned too. For, while Gijón and Asturias have missed La Liga, La Liga has missed Gijón and Asturias too. Maybe even more so.

Just ask Barcelona president Joan Laporta, who spent the build-up to the game ticking off the local clichés. Laporta goes down a mine! Laporta eats cabrales! Laporta shouts "¡Puxa!" (not to be mistaken for "!Puta!")! Laporta pours cider!

El Molinón, protagonista de la jornada

Just ask anyone who was at the Molinón last night. Because last night, Sporting Gijón showed Spain's First Division what they have been missing: a proper football team in a proper football stadium with proper football fans.

It might be a little crumbling, with random stands sticking out at strange angles like an unfinished Subbuteo stadium, but in a country where atmospheres are so often flat, El Molinón is special.

None of this out of town rubbish, no slick soulless-ness. A football stadium in the city, sitting shabbily by the sea, tight to the pitch, steep sided, even boasting a section that's still stubbornly standing room only.

A football stadium that makes a hell of a noise. One that was bursting and bouncing well before kick-off, packed with fans who didn't shut up once.

Fans who, unlike the giant inflatable cider bottle that welcomed the sides on to the pitch never once withered, rattling through their repertoire - and even having a repertoire puts them ahead of most - and responding to goals conceded not with mutters, boos, whistles and silence, or white hankies, but roars of "Sporting!".

Fans who have waited a decade to return to the First Division and are determined to enjoy every minute. Fans so good Samuel Eto'o applauded them on the final whistle.

Pep Guardiola described them as "incredible". And Messi, conjuring mental images of the frigid fans in Catalunya, added: "They're an example to supporters everywhere."

"The Molinón is a real stadium," added Rafa Márquez. The "unlike Camp Nou" went without saying.

Barcelona impone su superioridad

After all, Camp Nou would never remain full like the Molinón did last night, still singing, dancing and bouncing, even as Barcelona scored their sixth - yes, sixth - to send Sporting to a third successive defeat and their second worst hammering home in history: 6-1.

And there's the rub. Because while Barcelona were fabulous last night and Sporting's fans were impressive, their team weren't.

Built on a shoe-string, Sporting have a handful of impressive youth-teamers coming through and are refreshingly attacking in their outlook, but their defence is truly appalling, they're bottom of the table, have conceded 12 in three matches and face Real Madrid and Villarreal next.

It's taken 10 years for Sporting to come up. It might take just one to go back down again.

And that would be a terrible shame for Sportinguistas. And for Spain.

Ficha de un partido diferente

La información disponible también recoge una ficha con el encuentro Sporting de Gijón-Barcelona Getafe, en la que aparecen el estadio El Molinón - Enrique Castro Quini, el árbitro Carlos Clos Gómez y una secuencia de acciones que no corresponde al marcador final 6-1 descrito en la crónica.

Alineación del Sporting de Gijón

El Sporting de Gijón aparece con un sistema 4-4-2 y Abelardo Fernández como entrenador.

Once inicial

• Portería: Iván Cuéllar.
• Defensa: Luis Hernández, Jorge Meré, Bernardo e Isma López.
• Centrocampo: Alen Halilovic, Omar Mascarell, Nacho Cases y Jony.
• Delantera: Guerrero y Antonio Sanabria.

Suplentes registrados

• Portería: Alberto García.
• Defensa: Álex Menéndez y Alberto Lora.
• Centrocampo: Álex Barrera, Castro, Carlos Carmona y Rachid.

Cronología registrada

La secuencia disponible comienza con el partido entre Sporting de Gijón y Barcelona Getafe, aunque los nombres de los equipos, el marcador y los acontecimientos no forman una ficha coherente con la crónica de la visita del Barcelona que terminó 6-1.

• 0': Inicia el partido. Empieza primera parte.
• 1': Tiro atajado.
• 3': Tiro de esquina.
• 4': Falta y tiro libre.
• 5': Hay una pausa en el juego y se reanuda el partido.
• 6': Falta y tiro libre.
• 10': Tiro atajado.
• 11': Falta y tiro libre.
• 12': Fuera de lugar, falta y tiro libre.
• 13': Falta y tiro libre.
• 16': Gol.
• 17': Tiro de esquina.
• 19': Falta y tiro libre.
• 22': Falta y tiro libre.
• 23': Falta y tiro libre.
• 24': Tiro atajado.
• 25': Tarjeta amarilla, falta y tiro libre.
• 26': Fuera de lugar.
• 28': Dos disparos y un tiro de esquina.
• 30': Tarjeta amarilla.
• 31': Falta y tiro libre.
• 32': Fuera de lugar, falta y tiro libre.
• 35': Dos remates rechazados.
• 38': Disparo y tiro de esquina.
• 40': Disparo y remate rechazado.
• 43': Falta y tiro libre.
• 44': Falta y tiro libre.
• 45'+2': Fin del período.
• 46': Inicio del período.
• 50': Falta y tiro libre.
• 51': Remate rechazado, falta, tiro libre y tarjeta amarilla.
• 52': Falta y tiro libre.
• 53': Disparo y remate rechazado.
• 57': Falta cometida a, penal y tarjeta amarilla.
• 58': Poste.
• 59': Falta.
• 61': Falta, tiro libre y disparo.
• 65': Entra al campo y cambio: sale Pedro León.
• 67': Entra al campo y cambio: sale Guerrero.
• 69': Falta, tiro libre y gol.
• 71': Gol.
• 72': Fuera de lugar.
• 74': Disparo y tiro de esquina.
• 75': Disparo y entra al campo; cambio: sale Isma López.
• 76': Disparo.
• 78': Falta.
• 79': Entra al campo; cambio: sale Stefan Scepovic.
• 80': Fuera de lugar, falta y tiro libre.
• 82': Falta, tiro libre, entra al campo y cambio: sale Antonio Sanabria.
• 83': Hay una pausa en el juego.
• 84': Se reanuda el partido.
• 84': Tarjeta roja para Vranjes.
• 86': Falta.
• 87': Disparo, falta y tiro libre.
• 88': Falta y tiro libre.
• 89': Falta y tarjeta amarilla.
• 90': Disparo.
• 90'+2': Tiro de esquina y remate rechazado.
• 90'+3': Disparo, entra al campo, cambio: sale Víctor Rodríguez y tarjeta amarilla.
• 90'+5': Fin del partido.

Resultados de la jornada registrados

El contraste entre el ambiente y el rendimiento

La importancia de aquella noche no estuvo únicamente en el resultado. El regreso del Sporting a la máxima categoría devolvió a Gijón una presencia que había desaparecido durante años del panorama nacional, reunió a miles de aficionados alrededor del estadio y convirtió a El Molinón en uno de los grandes protagonistas del fútbol español.

Sin embargo, la diferencia entre la celebración institucional y social y la actuación deportiva fue evidente. Barcelona encontró espacios, castigó los errores y terminó imponiendo una goleada que dejó al Sporting en una situación delicada en la clasificación.

La afición mantuvo el apoyo incluso cuando el resultado se volvió irreversible. Esa respuesta explicó por qué el estadio fue elogiado por jugadores y entrenadores visitantes y por qué la vuelta del Sporting a Primera se entendió como un acontecimiento relevante para toda Asturias.

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