Leganés will receive Albacete at Butarque on Sunday at 16:15 with coach Oca convinced the survival line in Segunda División may end up below 50 points. “Creo que no serán necesarios los 50 puntos para la salvación,” he said as he looked ahead to the match.
Oca said the landscape of the division is shifting and that the side has to keep its focus on the final minutes, where points have been slipping away. He said the team reviewed the late chance that cost a point in Almería and noted that three recent matches have been decided, in one way or another, by late goals or late situations. If those three points had been kept, he said, Leganés would be looking at eight matches remaining under a very different sense of pressure.
The coach also pointed to the return of Lalo as a boost and said Pulido will be in the squad list, although not yet ready to play. “esperamos a Lalo, que es una buena noticia, una muy buena noticia,” Oca said, while adding that the club is trying to bring Pulido along quickly but that he is still getting used to the competitive environment he will soon enter.
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That matters because the attack already has a clear reference point. Oca said Melero now has five league goals plus one in the Copa, and that he and Millán are the players who have scored the most for Leganés. Asked about how the goals are shared, he was blunt: “No voy a decir que nos dé igual quién los meta.”
For Leganés, the match against Albacete is not just another date on the calendar. It is a test of whether the team can turn a changing league, late-game lessons and a few returning names into points before the margin for error narrows further.