The coach of the Eibar, José Luis Mendilibar, has assured this Tuesday that pass the qualifying round of Cup against Las Rozas, from Segunda B, is for his club “an objective, but not an obligation”.
Mendilibar, who has analyzed in a press conference this match of the second round of the Cup that his team will play in Madrid on Thursday, has maintained that the obligation is that their players do everything possible to qualify. “Everything possible for the goal -he added- because many times you make chances and you don't score a goal and they make you one and score and you're out.”
“The obligation – he added – is to go out putting a strong rhythmTry to always play in the opposite field and not believe before the game that you are going to win because you are a First team against a Second B team “.
Mendilibar also recalled that there is already a precedent in the previous edition of the Cup in which Eibar was eliminated by “a Second B team (Badajoz that beat them 3-1)” and that before the Gipuzkoan team had passed “a very fair tie” against another Second B.
For this reason, he has insisted that heunlike category can not “catch by surprise” to the gunsmiths, who have in their hands “to see how to face the game.”
The technician also recalled that Las Rozas changed coach a few weeks ago and that in the last ones he has played a Cup game that he won and four league games, of which “they have lost some and another two have drawn.”
Mendilibar also knows that his rival “is in the classification in the lower zone” and that right now his main objective is to get out of it.
He also believes that Las Rozas “will have a greater illusion when playing against a First Division team and being able to qualify. In the end they play at home and they will want to take advantage of that small advantage“, has indicated.
For this match,
Mendilibar will enter the field
to non-regular players in the league, which, in his opinion, will benefit the team's performance. “The more games we play in these circumstances, the more players will be interested in being well, in training well, since everyone will have options to play, if it is not the League it will be in the Cup,” he said.
However, he has warned that if Eibar is eliminated, With 24 on the squad, and matches from week to week, it will be “very difficult for everyone to enter because at the end they play eleven, another five with substitutions that you can make and in the end you have another eight players who do not participate in the first one and if the things are going well they are not likely to participate. “
Regarding the opening of the winter market, Mendilibar He has indicated that Eibar does not have to be closed “to have an entry”, but estimates that this would not have to be only for the remaining five months of LaLiga but “for a year or a year and a half.”
However, he believes that with a squad of 24 footballers, before the club would have to “work to be able to get (players)” and that for the remaining games of the season with “between 20 and 22 would be enough.”