A goal from Pedro Díaz in the first half set up victory on Monday for a Sporting that forgave some clear-cut chances against an Eibar that barely bothered Gijons, who also kept a clean sheet for the second time in whole season.
Sporting faces the visit of Eibar pressured by the landslide received on Thursday in Granada (5-0), one of the biggest in recent seasons, and falls in a part of the calendar where the theoretical teams will measure the strongest in the category.
Abelardo has already announced that he will make changes, and in defense he once again gave the starting role to Guille Rosas, Cote and Izquierdoz, while Quiepo also regained the starting role, in this case instead of Jony, and from the first moment. the rojiblancos they were decided by the party.
Eibar came out to see how the game was going and returned to their place influenced by the push of the rojiblanco, who already had two actions of some danger in the first minute, the first with a center of Otero that reached nothing , and the second, one more. crossed from the Colombian Zarfino finished with difficulty and Yoel stopped in two stages.
The Eibarreses gradually controlled the ball, but without it translating into dangerous situations for the local goal, as the only notable action was a loose and deflected shot by Javi Muñoz.
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Sporting squeezed the ball out of Eibar, which led to some steals. And in one of them, what Pedro Díaz did to Stoichkov, ended up in the goal because the Atletico midfielder made a cross shot that Yoel didn’t reach and the ball ended weakly in the back of the net.
The Basque team tried to speed up their actions, but the most they pressed were some corner kicks that the defense from Gijón solved without much problem, so the first half ended with a local advantage without the game of either team is especially brilliant.
Sporting could have sentenced the game in the first minutes of the second half, where they had several clear chances, especially one by Djurdjevic after a great run by Otero that left him without the ball and with an empty that goal, but the Atletico striker inexplicably finished.
In the next minute, Djurdjevic again received the ball between two central defenders and with a long field ahead, the Atletico striker broke in but took too long to shoot and the defense arrived in time to clear.
The third time was a shot from the edge of Otero’s area that Yoel cleared with his fists, actions that made Gaizka Garitano make three simultaneous changes in search of a reaction from his team.
However, it was Sporting who had a fourth chance that seemed impossible to miss but just as Djurdjevic had done earlier, now it was Zarfno who almost sent it over the goal line to the desperation of his teammates and the public .
In a series of colossal mistakes, it was now up to Bautista, who headed in a measured cross from Álvaro Tejero that the Eibar striker clearly wasted after another rosary of changes by two coaches followed.
Cristo González came on for Sporting instead of Djurdjevic and almost with the first ball he touched he scored 2-0 giving his team peace of mind with a great goal after making two cuts on a defender and the goalkeeper and cross the ball with a shot with a small angle.
Sporting could still score a third with a shot by Jony that Venancio took after Yoel was beaten, it was the last game of a game in which the Gijon men reconciled with the fans by adding three points against an Eibar that was a bit vulgar and it didn’t offer the level it should have.
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Eibar
2 – Sporting: Mariño, Guille Rosas, Izquierdoz, Insua, Cote, Christian Rivera, Pedro Díaz (Gragera m.57), Otero (Pol Valentin m.77), Zarfino, Queipo (Jony m.68) and Djurdjevic (Cristo González ) m.77)
0 – Eibar: Yoel, Tejero, Arbilla (Venancio m.68), Berrocal (Aketxe m.77), Imanol García (Correa m.55), Quique (Leschuk m.55), Sergio Álvarez, Javi Muñoz, Matheus (Corpas m.55), Stoichkov and Baptist.
Goals: 1-0, m.27: Pedro Díaz. 2-0, m.85: Christ Gonzalez.
Referee: Caparros Hernandez. He showed yellow cards to Cristo González (m.85) and Javi Muñoz (m.90)
Incidents: Sporting invited representatives of several Asturian clubs to the box. 14,409 viewers
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Source: La Verdad
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