When, an Iago Aspas touched by disappointment promised his hobby they would return. I was then 30 years old. Eight later, a goal of the captain, who has already turned 38 and is still there, at the foot of the cannon, certified the presence of his team in the next edition of the second European competition (1-2).
Celta, supported by more than 2,000 fans who traveled to Getafe, began nervous and fit a goal from Borja Mayoral after a bad exit from the ball in which the defense and the goalkeeper were entangled. That result left him out because Rayo and Osasuna were tied in their corresponding matches and with the triple draw they benefited to the detriment of Celta. But they pushed more, they settled, and the 24 minutes, Alfon put a ball to Aspas and, who tied the game and put the Celta back the European showcase.
When the three games circulated in the 54th minute, in Vitoria the referee pointed out a penalty for demolition from Juan Cruz to Tenaglia, which also caused another the previous week to save his team. Kike García, usual executors, but with an Osasunista past, declined the invitation to launch it and it was Carlos Vicente who cheated Herrera, advanced to Alavés and left out of Europe, at least then, Osasuna.
Then he marked blades, always essential, for Celta and put a result that assured him the European League. With the final whistle, the vigues joy overflowed, the return to Europe eight years later.
A few minutes later, in Vallecas, Rayo Vallecano players crowded around a phone, as they once with a transistor, things of modern times, to see the last moments of Alavés-Osasuna, and snorted anguished after the last stop of Sivera, the Vitorian goalkeeper. When the referee pointed out the end in the other field, the party began at his. The Conference will play, a historic milestone.
25 years have passed since their only European participation and then it was by invitation, for being a clean team; This time, for sports merits. There is also some poetic justice in the Rayista classification, which fell eliminated that time in the quarterfinals against Deportivo Alavés, and this time it has been the resistance of the Vitorians before a frustrated Osasuna, which has given him the pass, since the Madrid team, despite enjoying innumerable chances of goal, did not pass from the tie to zero against Mallorca.
In Vitoria there was disappointment for those who made the comfortable trip from Pamplona, a bullanguero army with desire for Europe. Osasuna was the one who had it worse, and also, the penalty goal of Alavés and the huge performance of Sivera put it more complicated. In the 88th minute, however, a goal by Raúl lit a lucecilla of hope for the Navarrese, who turned from that moment to the end, after the seven minutes of extension. It was a brutal siege that resisted the Alavés. There was no way to score a goal that would snatch the Conference Square to Ray. When the referee whistled the end, the tears of sadness of Mendizorroza mixed with those of joy in Vallecas.
