SEVILLA ATLÉTICO'S DEFENSIVE WALL: NINE CLEAN SHEETS IN THE LAST TWELVE MATCHES

It's not only the first team that has been boasting impressive defensive stats in recent matches. Sevilla Atlético is also basing its growth this season on conceding few goals and making the most of the ones they score. Although their unbeaten streak was broken a week ago in Yecla after five consecutive wins with no goals conceded, last Sunday, in a difficult place like the Alfredo Di Stéfano Stadium, the reserve team resumed their task right where they left off. And it wasn’t for lack of trying from Real Madrid Castilla, who pushed hard to avoid being surpassed in goal difference by Sevilla Atlético, who had beaten them in the first half of the season at Jesús Navas. However, they couldn’t do anything to break down Alberto Flores.

The goalkeeper from Fuentes de Andalucía once again delivered a perfect performance. With key interventions in both the first and second halves, Alberto secured his ninth clean sheet in the last twelve matches. Since the visit to Rico Pérez in Alicante on the distant 1st of December, the reserve team has played 12 matches, conceding goals in only three of them, against Betis Deportivo, Ceuta, and Yeclano. In total, they have conceded four goals in the last 1,080 minutes of play, which averages one goal conceded every three full matches.

With only eleven matches remaining in the season, the reserve team remains in a comfortable ninth place, just two points away from the playoff spots and eight points clear of the relegation zone. Now, after two consecutive away games, the team will return to the Jesús Navas Stadium on Saturday to face one of the teams fighting more directly for survival. CD Alcoyano, with only a one-point advantage over the relegation zone, comes off a loss in the Alicante derby against Hércules and has gone five matches without a win since their impressive away victory over Real Murcia on February 1st.