The armored team chained its second consecutive victory thanks to the goals of Aketxe and Stoichkov
Cartagena even tied the match, but Jairo’s expulsion ended up tipping the balance
Sociedad Deportiva Eibar achieved its second consecutive victory in LaLiga Hypermotion this Friday, to reach nine points, and They did it by winning 1-2, taking advantage of the weakness of Fútbol Club Cartagena which continues to be bottom and counts its home games by defeats, is embedded in the middle of the Carthaginian and Roman festivals.
The avoidable expulsion of Jairo Izquierdo It hindered the options of those from the port city when the result was 1-1 and they seemed to turn the match in their favor.
Victor Sanchez del Amo introduced no less than five new additions to the black and white eleven with respect to the one he had in the match lost 1-0 in Valladolid and he retouched all his lines. Thus, he gave the title to goalkeeper Raúl Lizoain, center back Kiko Olivas, Chilean midfielder Tomás Alarcón, playmaker Juan Carlos Real and Colombian striker Juanjo Narváez, leaving out Marc Martínez, Arnau Solá, Jony Álamo, Iván Ayllón and Alfredo Ortuño .
For its part, Joseba Etxeberria maintained the block he used in the match won 2-0 to Racing de Ferrol and only made one swap -Juan Berrocal instead of Unai Vencedor-.
With these protagonists a clash began between two teams that did not start the championship very wellworse for Efesé, who faced the match being the last classified with three points added, half of those that Eibar had obtained.
The staging left Eibar with more possession of the ball, but the first clear opportunity was at Efesé and it was very clear. Juan Carlos Real shot wide when he had everything to score in the 16th minute. In any case, the goal would not have been added to the scoreboard due to offside. Just a minute later Luca Zidane denied Juanjo Narváez the goal with a good clearance.
The Gipuzkoans, on their first occasion, they went ahead on the scoreboard in the 24th minute. A good attack by Cristian Gutiérrez ended with a pass to Ager Aketxe, who finished accurately to make it 0-1 and sow even more doubts in an Efesé accustomed to conceding a goal without having previously been in trouble.
The blaugranas, today in pink, They looked for the second goal with a corner kick executed by Aketxe himself It was not an Olympic goal because Lizoain prevented it and shortly after in another set-piece action the same protagonists intervened. The goalkeeper’s fists came out to repel the leather in a foul taken by the Basque footballer.
Efesé was staggering and barely smelled the ball before a rival who continued to impact with a couple of shots Quique, the first of them saved by Lizoain and the second without aim, and another by Aketxe, also moving away from the goal.
The locals wanted to stretch themselves minimally with a shot from Isak Jansson that he went over the crossbar but the truth is that the distrust on his part was a palpable fact. Víctor, after the revolution in the lineup, could not find solutions from the black-and-white bench and at half-time the Eibar team had the advantage and the feeling that Etxeberria’s team had very much control of the game despite the fact that their advantage on the scoreboard was minimal.
The beginning of the second half was something else for Cartagena and In less than two minutes he already equalized the match. A good transition started by Jairo Izquierdo, with a pass to Hector Hevel and his subsequent assist to Juan Carlos Real meant the score was 1-1 with the good definition of the Galician, who added his first goal of the season.
Luca Zidane avoided the 2-1 with shots from Juan Carlos Real himself and Alarcón and in the continuation of this last play the referee Alejandro Quintero González penalized for Anaitz Arbilla’s knockdown of Juanjo Narváez. However, after seeing the action on the VAR screen, he decided to leave the action without punishment.
Efesé managed to level the contest and became dominant but a serious mistake by Jairo Izquierdo, who earned the red card for a hard foul on Mario Sorianocomplicated the situation again.
The home team had to spend more than half an hour with one less player on the pitch and Eibar, who had been harassed for almost a quarter of an hour, recovered and it didn’t take long for Juan Diego Molina “Stoichkov” to, after receive a good pass from Matheus Pereira, define due to the lack of forcefulness of the Cartagena defense in the center and put his team ahead again.
Once again winning and in superiority, The gunsmiths controlled the situation with solvency against an opponent who sought freshness with the changes but he didn’t find it. In fact, he did not seriously worry Luca Zidane again and the one who did come close to scoring was Yacine Qasmi, who did not define well and in a later action saw his goal disallowed for offside in what could have been the 1 -3 for the Gipuzkoa team. He didn’t need it to add the three points in a Cartagonova stadium with the fans crestfallen.