THE LEAGUE IS OVER. STILL THE CUP

The Andorran League ended yesterday. With FC Lusitans as champion a couple of days before and, FC Santa Coloma second and therefore participate in the Europa League next year, interest at the Top were focused on the duel between UE Santa Coloma and UE Sant Julia to see who was third. Recall that the other place to go to Europe is for the Cup champion, and if none of the two teams for the final classifies, in principle would be for 3rd place in the league, if I'm not mistaken.

The interest was much higher, in principle, at the bottom, after the penultimate round, only CE Principality had secured the permanence: Inter Escaldes, FC Encamp and UE Engordany would be playing for the position of relegation and promotion. Inter, but impugned its match against Engordany by improper alignment and the appeal was accepted. Result, Inter winning it, so also claimed out of danger.

The matches of the last day were Engordany v Principat and Encamp v Inter. To avoid relegation, and Engordany should win, and Encamp, lose. Encamp, meanwhile, had enough with 1 point for playing the promotion. In the end, the two teams won (1-0 in both cases) and therefore UE Engordany lost the category, while promoting FC Encamp will play against an opponent yet to be decided, as the League in the 2nd division yet missing three days.

Next week takes up the Cup, with quarterfinals games. Duels are: CE Principat v UE Santa Coloma, FC Encamp v FC Santa Coloma, UE UE Sant Julia v UE Engordany and FC Ordino v FC Lusitans, with round matches. In principle, the first 4 of the League are favorites, but as always, you have to play!

EVERYTHING IS READY

With almost all national competitions stops due to international matches, it's time to make a review of the National League of Andorra.
At the top (play-off for the title), Lusitans is close to clinch it.. Six-point ahead with 3 games remaining, mean that men of Carlos Sánchez can be champions in the next match. By the way, Sánchez is the 3rd manager so far this season, a very strange thing for a team that has ever been leading. Recall that Marquis Vincente left the team at the end of participation in Europe; Salva Estruch took over and, a few weeks before the end of the regular season was dismissed.
Behind Lusitans is a close fight between the other three teams to decide the second place (and consequentemente, place in Europa League), 2 points separate Sant Julia de FC Santa Coloma and, they are one point ahead of the other "colomenc" team, the UE Santa Coloma. These three teams have made a league quite irregular. For FC Santa Coloma, the lack of scoring this year has made that, even they have lost only one match, like Lusitans, Luis Blanco's men are 8 points away of these, having conceded eight draws. Sant Julià has alternated good games with some not so good, but failed to ever win Lusitans. A victory in the next game (Sant Julia v Lusitans), would open many options for Josep M ª Espot "Canito". Meanwhile, Lluís Aloy team, which has been the only one to win Lusitans (2-1 in Week 2), is doing a pretty weak play-off (1 point in 3 games). Next week we could have a champion or, have it all quite complicated. We'll see what happens.
On the bottom (play-off for the relegation), the only thing that seems to be coming out is Principat. 7 points lead for Raul Cañete over the last (FC Encamp), it seems that they are away from danger, after a season where it seemed that this team had more options. Maybe not to enter the fight for the title, but to be closer to there and not to the relagation. Engordany and Inter have 12 points and Encamp 1 less. Here, the situation is complicated and changes weekly. Inter started with only 6 points but has got two victories. Meanwhile, Engordany and Encamp have added only 1 point each (the match between them, which ended 1-1);  both, Oscar Guerrero as Pepe Mengual must work hard to avoid relegation and promotion places, it seems that Alain Montwani's have a more positive dynamic. In any case, the matchs next week can clarify many things. Losing, for any of the three back would make to be very difficult to remain in First Divisió. Remain in tune!