He Elche
CF will face a very demanding calendar in the month of January since he will have to play five matches of League, some key in his aspirations of permanence, to which he will have to add the wear of the Cup, competition in which a match will be played, which may be more if it exceeds The
Nucia.
Big three, Athletic
Club, Barcelona and Valencia, and two possible direct rivals, such as Real
Valladolid and Getafe, await the Elche team, whose hopes of permanence are based largely on leaving this month of competition outside the relegation zone.
The month of January will start for the Elche group with a visit to the Athletic
Club
of
Bilbao in San Mamés, an always complicated scenario although at Elche he did well on his last two visits.
Subsequently, he will tackle the second cup qualifying round in which La Nucía, a provincial neighbor, awaits him in an unprecedented single-match duel.
If the team from Elche is able to overcome this round, they would play the Cup, already in the round of 32, in the middle of January, with the option to qualify and be in the round of 16 before the end of January.
Before the Elche will open the year at Martínez Valero on January 10 against Getafe, in a commitment with emergencies for the Elche team.
On the following day, the group led by Argentine Jorge Almirón will pay a visit to the Real
Valladolid, direct rival in the permanence in one of the matches marked in red on the calendar by the dressing room.
January will end by Elche with two matches of substance, since it will receive the Barcelona at Martinez
Valero, still on a date to be decided on the penultimate weekend of the month, to close this cycle at the stadium of Mestalla before him Valencia, which he already managed to defeat in the first round and has now become a direct rival.