The Eibar, who visits Elche this Saturday at the Martínez Valero (14:00), faces the second consecutive match against teams in the relegation zone, after the one he played last day in Ipurua against Valladolid.
Despite the importance of the points at stake, the Eibar coach, Jose
Luis
Mendilibar, has refused this Thursday to qualify the final clash: “Not at all”, he stressed. “It is a game that must be played against the dog's face and that the one who makes the fewest mistakes will win. They (for Elche) are like us, a little worse and they also think they can win. And if you can't win, at least draw, which is also important: you have to take risks, but if they are more than you should, you will surely lose ”.
Mendilibar has also spoken about the arrival to the bench of Elche de Fran
Scribe, which has already been measured on previous occasions. “He is a coach who ensures the positions and who will reach the top, attacking positions, with fewer people than he used to arrive with. They are not going to lose their place as they have been until now ”, he predicted.
His tactic is clear: look only at themselves. “If we start the game looking at our opponents more than ourselves, I think we will have fewer chances of winning. If we come out as ourselves, we will have more options to win. But always knowing who we have in front of us and which players, and above all respecting them. We have to be ourselves for longer than we have been in the last games ”, he concluded.
Eibar, fourth from the tail, adds the same points as the Valladolid, the first team to occupy relegation place, who surpasses by overall goal average (-12 the blanquivioletas, -7 the gunsmiths) and also in the particular, after having already faced each other in both the first and second rounds (1-2 in Valladolid, 1-1 in Eibar).