Elche reinvents itself (2-0)

The Pacheta team, with an alignment full of new features, clearly surpasses Numancia and retains its place in the promotion zone. Manuel Sánchez and Jonathas sign the goals of the ilicitano team

The crises last little to Pacheta, interventionist coach by nature and unable to cross his arms before problems. The coach of Burgos, after three games without winning, decided to act and look for solutions on his bench and on the board. He filled the lineup of unusual players, in some cases more out of necessity than by obligation, and the result was a different Elche in some tactical details, but just as reliable.

Up to five new faces peeked into alignment with respect to last day. The team accused him in the first minutes, in which the Numancia was better, but when the franchise machine began to carburete it was already unstoppable. Escriche and Jonathas gave another offensive profile to the attack, while the couple formed by Manuel Sánchez and Iván Sánchez contributed vigor and overflow to the core.

He didn't make it easy on Numancia, which in the first minutes was much more precise and sharp than Elche. Iván Calero, a former franjiverde, became the scourge of the right wing. First he forced Badia to make his classic saving stop and, shortly after, knocked out two rivals to finish off again, although this time his shot crashed into the legs of a defender.

Elche suffered and could barely chew the game, although with the passing of the minutes the pieces were fitting and the situation stabilized. The mobility of Escriche, undetectable for the visitor behind. The former Huesca had the first occasion in a hand in hand that Barrios aborted.

Once the game was balanced, Elche found the prize in a stationary ball action. Manuel Sánchez hammered the head net a bad rejection of the Soria defense, already in the final section of the first act. The goal unleashed Elche, who was able to score the second after a free-kick by Pere Milla. The Numancia, depressed by his bad dynamics, tried to get hooked to the game on the last play of the first act with a shot from Derik who did not find the miracle net.

It was the swan song of the Soriano ensemble, which finally collapsed within a few minutes of the second act after the direct red expulsion of Héctor Hernández, who planted tacos in Gil's stomach in an attempt to clear suicide. With numerical superiority, Elche played at pleasure. He moved the ball with discretion and looked for the sides to bleed his rival, who no longer had the capacity to respond.

Pere Milla and Manuel Sánchez grazed the second, but it was Jonathas, to the delight of the fans, who signed the sentence with a superb splice at Pere Milla's pass. The Soria wall was broken and Elche lifted the foot of the accelerator, although it was so superior that it continued to accumulate opportunities. Nino, reserve for once, had two very clear and Pacheta, happy on the bench, could finally give Víctor Rodríguez minutes, the only one of the winter signings that remained to debut.

Elche ended up liking and cheered by the stands, increasingly convinced that the team is for something more than permanence. At the moment it remains sixth, in the promotion zone, and every time it adds more players and styles to its football catalog.