Eibar gets used to silence

EI Eibar he is the best notary in The league with the new reality that the coronavirus has marked. It was the first professional team to play behind closed doors in the Spanish competition, on Tuesday in the postponed derby against the Real, and will repeat tomorrow in the Bernabéu. Within four days, two games in silence, a unique case in the recent era.

“You arrived at the opposite goal and everything was very cold, you were short of breath from the stands. It hurt us a lot,” he says. Arbilla. “The cuddly people would have given us a plus in the derby, it would have been a nice game and it would have helped us,” he laments. belt.

Before measuring the Madrid, the gunsmiths had high hopes of permanence in three consecutive home games: against I raised, Majorca and Real Sociedad. After beating the granotas, they yielded to the vermilions (their first win at home of the season) and the txuri-urdin. In this way, they confirmed a negative dynamic that places Eibarreses as the worst team in the League in the last 15 days, with 12 points, along with Spanish Y Valladolid, with the same baggage, although with a better goal difference. Direct rivals like Mallorca and Leganes They have added two and six points, respectively, more than the Gipuzkoans, who have not won two consecutive games since the end of October and the beginning of November, against the Villarreal and Leganés. It has been an eternity.

This is the worst Eibar in history, equaled with that of the year of promotion: 27 points, although by then (the 2014-15 campaign) he was fourteenth and has fallen two places. The following courses were superb: 36 points in 2015-16 (eighths), 40 in 2016-17 (eighths), 39 in 2017-18 (eighths) and 35 last season (tenths).