Burgos defeated Cueva 3:1 at Municipal El Plantío in the fifth round of the Segunda División Regular Season on Friday evening. The hosts moved into fifth place with eight points, while Cueva remained at the bottom of the table with zero points from five matches. A result we had flagged at 53 per cent confidence, and it proved correct in the end.
Carlos Hernández opened the scoring in the fourteenth minute, giving Burgos an early advantage. The visitors looked uncomfortable without the ball, their attacks coming in waves but lacking the final touch. By then the pattern was clear — Cueva would dominate possession but struggle to convert pressure into goals.
To be fair, Alberto Dadie doubled the lead in the twentieth minute, and the match shifted direction. I remember that moment because Burgos stopped chasing and started dictating. Dadie's strike put the visitors under real pressure, and they never quite recovered their composure.
Jon Karrikaburu extended the lead in the forty-eighth minute before half-time. The substitution for himself came six minutes later, suggesting something had gone wrong. Then came two own goals by Carlos Redruello Nimo in the eighty-first and eighty-second minutes, making the scoreline look kinder than the performance warranted.
Cueva had 52 per cent of possession and launched 131 attacks compared to Burgos's 77. They registered three shots on target against two, yet could only score twice from their own mistakes. Expected goals told the same story — 0.63 for the visitors against 0.82 for the hosts, though the final score suggests something else entirely.
The result leaves Burgos in fifth place with eight points from five games, while Cueva sit twenty-second with nothing to show for their opening fortnight. The gap between the sides was visible long before the final whistle. The table goes out of the window in these games, but tonight it said exactly what the pitch showed.