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DeportivoGetafe had done the hard part. They'd sat deep, absorbed Deportivo's possession, and found a goal against the run of play. For twelve minutes it looked like they might actually hold it. Then Aubameyang arrived at the back post.
The draw felt fair by the end, even if Getafe will feel they let two points go rather than earned one. Our pre-match read couldn't separate these two sides — 37% home, 30% away, 33% draw — and the match itself refused to settle the argument.
The Getafe Goal
For most of the first hour, Deportivo owned the ball. Sixty-four percent of it, 515 passes to Getafe's 282. But Getafe had 15 shots to Deportivo's 10, which tells you everything about how the home side chose to play: compact, direct, waiting. Ivan Azón, already booked in the 26th minute, was the architect anyway — his pass released Ramón Terrats in the 66th, and Terrats finished to make it 1-0.
It was the kind of goal Getafe are built to score. Not pretty. Effective. The Coliseum liked it.
Aubameyang Levels
Deportivo's response was patient rather than frantic. Yeremay Hernández worked the ball into a dangerous position on the right, whipped in a cross, and Aubameyang — still one of the most reliable headers of a ball in the league at this stage of his career — got above his man and powered it home. Seventy-eight minutes. Game level.
¡Ala gran púchica! — you give up a goal to Aubameyang from a cross and you can't really say you weren't warned.
Getafe pushed late, earning a yellow for Mario Martín deep into stoppage time as frustrations boiled over, but they couldn't find a second. Deportivo's saves tally of three to Getafe's two suggests neither goalkeeper had a particularly harrowing afternoon, which is another way of saying the finishing from both sides was ordinary when it needed to be sharp.
Where Both Sides Stand
Deportivo stay unbeaten — DWWDD in their last five — and will view this as a point earned on a difficult ground. They'll be less pleased about the manner of conceding, sitting in possession for an hour and then getting punched on the counter. Cabal, that's been a recurring vulnerability for sides that like to control games.
Getafe's form reads DDLLW coming in, and this extends the streak of draws at the top. They're hard to beat at home, harder still to play against, but converting those hard-earned leads is a different problem. With Enes Ünal booked in the 42nd alongside the earlier caution to Azón, the discipline ledger is something to watch going forward.
The question now is whether Deportivo can tighten up in the moments after they concede, and whether Getafe have enough in front of goal to turn their defensive resilience into points rather than just respectability.
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