Ontinyent 1931 CF beat Atlético Saguntino 1-0 with a Roz goal
Ontinyent 1931 CF beat Atlético Saguntino 1-0 at El Clariano last Tuesday thanks to a 64th-minute goal from Roz, the club's first league win of the season.
Ontinyent 1931 CF picked up its first league win of the season by beating Atlético Saguntino, the Sagunto-based club, 1-0 at El Clariano, in an even match settled in the second half by a goal from forward Roz. The result let the home side put behind them their opening-day defeat to CD Roda and open their win column for the campaign.
The match was balanced from the start. The home side tried to close down the space behind their defence and alternated spells of pressing with periods of sitting deeper, while Saguntino created its own chances and tested the home goalkeeper before half-time, though neither side managed to break the deadlock before the break.
The second half kept the same rhythm until, in the 64th minute, Roz beat the visiting goalkeeper to score the only goal of the match. The goal came after a string of chances for both sides, in a spell in which Jorge Ruiz and Antonio Moreno, for the home team, were involved in some of the clearest opportunities before the decisive strike.
The match took an extra turn in the 79th minute, when Jorge Ruiz himself picked up a second yellow card and had to leave the pitch. Down to ten men, Ontinyent 1931 chose to sit back and protect the result for the rest of the match, while Saguntino stepped up the pressure looking for an equaliser. The visitors came close in the 87th minute, with a shot that clipped the post, but the home side held on until the final whistle.
The win carries extra meaning for a relatively young club: the current Ontinyent 1931 CF was founded in 2019, though it presents itself as the heir of the historic club founded in 1931, which played up to five seasons in Spain's Segunda División (second tier) during the 1960s and 1970s. The current club's name and founding year are a direct tribute to that golden era of local football.
The venue for the win, El Clariano, also has a history of its own: it opened on 10 January 1951 and has capacity for 5,000 spectators, a figure that places it among the leading non-professional football grounds in the Valencian Community.
For Ontinyent 1931, the result means leaving behind a poor start to the league and arriving with more confidence for its next fixture, away at Atlético Levante. For Atlético Saguntino, on the other hand, the defeat interrupts a season that had opened days earlier with a win against a direct rival, and it now needs to respond in the coming rounds to avoid losing ground in the standings.
For Atlético Saguntino, the setback comes in a year in which the Sagunto-based club, founded in 1922, is still building on the sporting prestige it earned over the past decade: ten seasons ago it was crowned Tercera División champion, and the following season, already in Segunda División B, it won its first Copa RFEF title by beating Fuenlabrada. Keeping up that level of competitiveness means the Sagunto side has to absorb occasional setbacks like the one suffered at El Clariano and respond quickly in the coming rounds.
The result is followed closely in Camp de Morvedre, the district Sagunto belongs to, where regional-level football coexists with the loyal support of fans who expect their team to compete on equal terms with historic clubs like Ontinyent 1931 itself.
The result also confirms that the group remains a tough one for Saguntino, which will need to pick up points in the coming weeks to stay in touch with the top of the table. According to Golsmedia — Atlético Saguntino.