Next opponent: Real Jaén, a lizard that has awakened from its lethargy.

By José Antonio Jerruz Mancilla.

**After having lived a déjà vu in Chapín and getting the first victory of the season, CD Estepona receives this Sunday (19:30h) to Real Jaén, a match that seems key to reaffirm the resurgence of the red and white team.

The lizard team has returned to the fourth category of national soccer -four seasons later- after a long journey wandering through the desert of a Tercera RFEF that, by history, entity and city, does not correspond to him.
After several failed attempts, in the always hard and reviled play-offs, the third time was the charm. The Real Jaén was finally able to celebrate the promotion, after leaving CD Huétor Tajar, in the quarterfinals; UD Torre del Mar, in the semifinals; and Club Atlético Central, in the final.

Adri Paz, Mario Martos or Curro Burgos are some of the fundamental pillars that, together with the coach from Andujara Manolo Herrero, continue at the head of a team from Jaén that will seek to settle in such a complex category as the Segunda RFEF.
To do this, the white entity has been reinforced very well in each of its lines, with players like Rabanillo (SD Compostela), Jesús Del Amo (Tudelano), A. Pavón (At. Sanluqueño), A. Bernardo (UD Sanse), Sergio Rivera (Ciudad de Lucena), Manuel López (CD Torreperogil) and Pablo García (Unionistas), among others.

The last precedent between rojillos and lagartos took place in the season 2020/21, in the now defunct Tercera División. At that time, both teams were playing the tenth and last matchday of the Second Phase for Permanence in the Third RFEF.
In a totally inconsequential match, it was Real Jaén who took the three points from Muñoz Pérez, after winning by the minimum (0-1), thanks to a solitary goal by Álvaro Sánchez.

The lizards face, thus, the third outing of the course. The first of them took place at the Francisco Artés Carrasco stadium, in an opening day in which they were held to a (0-0) draw by Lorca Deportiva.
Meanwhile, in their second outing, they managed to win, against all odds, against Atlético Antoniano (2-3) at the Municipal de Lebrija, one of the most complicated fields in Group IV.

From last season's 'Marchenazo' to this season's 'Castedinha', both in 93' and in the same goal. The déjà vu lived in Chapín has made that CD Estepona can conjugate, once and for all, the participle of the verb to win. Now, it is time to endorse this victory against Real Jaén, give continuity to the positive dynamics and start making the Muñoz Pérez what it always had to be: the sweet home of the "rojillos".