Almost two years after the last time Ipurua hosted a Cup match in which Eibar was eliminated by Athletic, … The Armeros squad once again welcomes a First Division team to its fiefdom, with the option of achieving a place in the round of 16 that will bring it a joy that it resists in the league competition and will help appease the spirits of a part of the Armeros fans who are not going to enjoy a cup night like those of yesteryear as a sign of protest towards the board.
And if in that duel against the red and whites the Armeros stadium was packed to capacity, tonight against Elche a notable absence of season ticket holders is expected, who in the previous days have been freeing up their seats en masse due to the initial decision to automatically charge them the 10 euros of the price set for the ticket.
The subsequent rectification by the club came too late to stop a ‘disbandment’ that could cause a desolate image in the stands, although the only thing the squad can do to try to get its social mass to become excited about the team again is precisely to compete with all its soul to try to advance towards the decisive draws of the tournament at the cost of displacing the people of Elche and thus achieving a moral boost that will give it wings facing the end of the year that will take place on Friday (7:00 p.m. h.) again on the Eibar grass against Valladolid.
And given that only three days ago his squad needed a supreme effort to get a point in Córdoba to stop its plummet, Beñat San José has already announced that he will pull the players who are having the least minutes in the domestic competition, but for that reason “they are with the maximum energy and desire to try to get through to the playoffs,” the San Sebastian coach declared yesterday, that after “fulfilling the small objective of bringing the Cup to Ipurua, now we want to move forward at the cost of eliminating a great Elche. Then what has to come will come,” he said in reference to the next game against the Pucelanos, the third that the armeros will play in six days, a fact that bothers “because we are the only ones who are forced to play in such a short space of time.”
In front of them they will have an Elche that already won in Ipurua last year when they both met in the Second Division, but which, curiously, is one of the three teams in the top category that still does not know what it is to win away from its stadium.
