CD Numancia 0-0 Barça Atlètic: Valuable point

Barça Atlètic are bringing home a point from Sunday's game at the Nuevo Estadio Los Parajitos. They had their chances to beat CD Numancia but couldn't put the ball in the back of the net, but a point at one of the hardest grounds in the league is still an impressive achievement and means they are still in the play-off places.

Tight match

Much of the first half was a stalemate. Although Barça were dominating the possession they were finding it hard to get the ball out of their own half. Luismi Cruz had the best chance, but in a stop-start encounter, neither side was able get into the right kind of flow.

The second half saw home getting most of the possession, and curiously this seemed to be leading to more chances for the Catalans to get the ball forward to Chadi Riad and Luismi Cruz. Some great football from Diankou and Txus Alba was asking questions of the Numancia defence, but the home side had all the answers and the game was more about half-chances than big chances.

Rafa Márquez started playing around with his bench in the hope of finding the way to finally crack the game, but Numancia, clearly knowing how dangerous the Barça reserves have been in the final minutes of games, opted to tighten up at the back, and did so with impressive effect.

MATCH STATS

Numancia, 0 
Barça Atlètic, 0

CD Numancia: Ayesa, Valín (Jordi Tur, min. 80), Gorka Pérez, Fer Román, Jaume Pol, Dani Sánchez, Toni Arranz, Bonaldo, Carrillo (Tamayo, min. 73), Mancebo (Muñoz, min. 67), Ruben Mesa.

Barça Atlètic: Arnau Tenas, Chadi Riad, Diounkou, Moha, Roberto, Vega, Nuñez, Juanda (Fabio, min. 73), Txus Alba (Ilias, min. 73), Luismi Cruz (Pocho Roman, min. 79), Carbonell.

Referee: Velasco Arbaiza. Yellow card for Fer Román of CD Numancia