Tranquility: The Power of Your Reaction

After the short vacation break after the encouraging victory against Valladolid, Beñat San José used the cliché “what works is not touched” and presented the same block that he had liked so much against the Pucelanos, with the hope of providing the same offensive spectacle that was experienced on the last day of 2025.

But practically from the opening whistle it was clear that some of those who stood out the most at the end of the year did not seem to be having their best day at the office.

Faced with a Mirandés well equipped to close all the entrance doors to his door, the ball did not flow to the feet of the gunsmiths, who while they were stuck looking for the key that would open one, forgot to close theirs in the first corner they awarded to their ‘guest’.

And, despite the fact that the rojillos had not managed to get any benefit from the corner kicks that they had arranged until yesterday, they found that up to three of their players had the opportunity to finish off the ball thrown by Bauzá, and it was the young Adrián Pica, center back on loan from Alavés, who thanked the host for the gift by piercing Magunagoitia’s fence with a header combed back when the stopwatch had not yet crossed the first quarter of hour.

The cold, cold blow was so accurate that the Eibar players did not get up from the canvas until the Barça coach shook them at half-time to wake them up.

The harangue had a quick effect, since just five minutes after the ball started rolling again, an opportunistic Álvaro Rodíguez, precisely one of those who had not been seen in the first half, turned on the light that illuminated the path to the necessary comeback.

Four months after he made his debut by scoring his first goal as a gunsmith in the second league matchday against Granada, the player from Fuenlabrada took advantage of an accurate loan from Corpas within the Mirandes domains to feed the hope of a gunsmith fans who shouted loudly that it was possible.

And even more so after Petit left the bottom player one less due to an inexplicable tackle from behind on the scorer of the equalizer, which although initially only punished with a yellow card, ended up being red due to the evidence of the seriousness of an action that, fortunately, did not injure the Madrid defender.

It was not a bed of roses, because against Mirandés it never is, but after the entry of Martón within the renewal plan that San José launched shortly after, Eibar made its way to its goal with pick and shovel.

Martón, to the rescue

Without despairing because the hands of the clock were ticking without the long-awaited goal that was needed to complete the comeback, the gunsmiths pulled with pick and shovel until Martón was knocked down in the area in his attempt to catch another pass from Magunazelaia’s ‘remanguillé’, the second in a row after the one he invented against Valladolid.

The referee did not even consult with the VAR because he saw the action clearly, and the Navarrese striker himself grabbed the ball, placed it at the eleven-meter point and, with determination and determination, shot Nikic through the center of the goal, sealing with his eighth goal of the season a victory that certifies total reconciliation with Ipurua.

And after the two consecutive defeats suffered against Zaragoza and Cultural Leonesa, the two consecutive victories that Eibar has added for the first time all season, bring the points collected in their fortress to 21.

And, although the rest of the day remains to be completed, with the 24 that now appear in their locker, the armored squad puts itself in the middle of a relegation zone in which Mirandés is sunk with the 16 that it brought before its visit to the Eibar stadium.

Now he has a whole week ahead of him to recover the effort invested and launch himself into a second round that will allow him to dream not only of not fighting to avoid losing the category but of reaching greater heights.