A Eibar with many casualties he plays this Thursday in his training camp of Atxabalpe of Arrasate (Gipuzkoa) a friendly match against Osasuna, taking advantage of the stoppage of the league competition for the national team matches.
The objective of the match is not to lose the rhythm of the competition for the next match, in which the gunsmiths will visit the Real Madrid at the Estadio Di Stéfano on Saturday, April 3, in one of the remaining ten finals to save the First Division category.
This friendly match will be played behind closed doors, but it can be followed by the fans of both teams, since it will be broadcast live on the YouTube channel of the Eibar Sports Society.
José Luis Mendilibar will not be able to count for said meeting with his main star, the barbateño Bryan gil, who has been called up with the senior Spanish team, which makes him the first player to wear the Eibar shirt to do so.
Neither will his teammate from the Sevilla quarry be loaned to Eibar for this season, Alexander well, called up with the Spain Under-21 team, nor the goalkeeper Marko dmitrovic, who plays for the Serbian team.
To these forced casualties will be added the injured Rober Correa and Pedro Bigas and quite possibly the also injured Yoshinori Mutt and José Ángel Valdés “Cote“and Eduardo Foundling, who did not play last Saturday in San Mamés against Athletic due to different kinds of discomfort.
Osasuna will be a good rival to calibrate the state of form, but especially that of cheer up of the armory squad, who have been in relegation positions for several days and cannot get off teams that are slightly higher in the qualifying table so as not to fall into the abyss.