After two weeks of preseason in a group, Eibar faces 24 hours of vertigo that will serve to raise the bar of the requirement. The gunsmith team has traveled by bus to Madrid to play two consecutive games before two rivals from the noble part of the Second Division. On Friday the Catalans visit Rayo Vallecano and on Saturday, the recently released Leganés. Both games will be played in the morning (10.00 am).
Joseph
Luis
Mendilibar 24 footballers were brought to Madrid and it is expected that all will have their share of prominence. Edu
Foundling and Cote, injured for a long time, are the only two absences of the first team in a list that has room for seven youth players: the goal Jon
Mikel
Magunagoitia, the defenders Sergio
Cubero and Unai
Dufur, midfielders James
God and Michael
Angel
Atienza and the forwards Unai
Arieta and Eñaut
Mendia. There are also the three players who return from loan, the central Joseph
Antonio
Martinez, the middle Robert
Olabe and the attacker Asier
Benedict.
After the first friendly against Mirandés, focused on picking up pace and in which Eibar beat Burgos 3-0 with goals from Benedict, Quique
Gonzalez and Kike
Garcia, the two games today and tomorrow will be able to delve a little more into the physical and tactical aspect of a team that is still waiting for reinforcements. Mendilibar He asked for seven or eight signings and the arrival door could open in the next few days.
The Polish right winger Damian
Kadzior, from Dinamo Zagreb, could be the first to arrive for around two million euros. However, the club needs incorporations in all lines. The market is long (it ends on October 5) but surely the Zaldibar technician will want to have some of those new faces as soon as possible to speed up his adaptation process and get to September 12, which is just around the corner. corner, with the highest possible potential.
In this context, the matches of today and tomorrow are presented as new opportunities for some footballers to vindicate themselves. They did it with a goal against Mirandés Quique
Gonzalez and Asier
Benedict, and with good feelings the homegrown players James
God or Unai
Arieta. Other pieces will try to add to the list.
Bench changes
Rayo will be the first of the two rivals. The dispute of the match came into question after the Madrid team had to cancel its first two preseason games, against Leganés and Alcorcón, for not having enough troops due to the pandemic. After staying at the gates of the play-off for promotion to the First Division, the Vallecano team has a new tenant on the bench, Andoni
Iraola.
Tomorrow, Eibar will visit Leganés, who played their first friendly on Wednesday against Cartagena. Those of Joseph
Luis
Marti, which opens at the controls of the cucumber team, won 0-1 with a penalty goal from Sabin
Merino.
Two tests that will serve to measure the state of Eibar with only two weeks left to start the League.