Eibar started the year with a comfortable victory over Racing de Santander

He Eibar The year started well after finishing last year with a four game winless streak. This Friday it was imposed on Praise in career in a match he controlled well and the victory allowed him to return to the playoff positions he abandoned on the last day after falling to Andorra.

A match between two rivals fighting for promotion to the First Division at this stage of the season and started with a high tempo on the part of both teams. He Santander Racing He came out without fear and wanted to have a leading role from the first minutes. But nevertheless, the first chance was local through a cross shot by Mario Soriano with great intentions in the 7th minute, which hit the Cantabrian defensive barrier. Without a break, a minute later a header from Aketxe It goes slightly over the crossbar.

Two notices of Eibar which culminated shortly after with the first goal coming in the 10th minute after a measured cross into the area by Rios Reina was well headed. Stoichkov at the base of the right post and out of Ezkieta’s reach. Stoichkov’s eighth goal of the season was also the first in the Second Division of the recently started year 2024.

Racing tried to react and in the 17th minute Andrés almost got the ball inside the area, but good play was stopped by Luca ZidaneEibar wanted to score and in the 21st minute Matheus’ point-blank shot from the edge of the area was brilliantly saved by Ezkieta as he snuck between the posts.

But in the 39th minute came the game of the game, where several gun players intervened and ended up at the feet of Bautista, who two meters from the goal hit a powerful and put a shot that stopped. Ezkieta under the sticks, thus keeping Racing in the game. Half time was reached with a slight advantage from the gun, but with Racing de Santander bowing out waiting for their turn.

Eibar came out with intensity in the second half in search of a sentence. may have it Matthew in the 49th minute with a long shot that hit the crossbar of the post.

Gun manufacturer’s insistence. At 51 one shot Aketxe This again forced another save from Ezkieta, who miraculously kept Karera in the match. The visiting team tried to react in the 53rd minute when a dangerous shot by Andrés was blocked Arbilla.

A few moments later it happened Pol Moreno the one at risk. The race seemed to wake up to the point in the 68th minute when Peque came close to equalizing, but his header went high.

But Eibar sentenced after Aldasoro tackled Aketxe inside the area in the 81st minute, a penalty was awarded, which was taken by Aketxe himself, who placed it superbly, adjusted to the base of the right post and beyond the reach of Ezkieta. The goalkeeper guessed his intention, but he couldn’t reach the ball.

Racing tried to react quickly to a shot from Aldasoro which was high on the best chance of this second half for the Cantabrians. Jeremy in the 88th minute, in a game similar to the previous one, also sent the ball high,

Rubén Alves would still have a third, in the 92nd minute, who also failed to find a goal for Karera. The last minute response for Eibar was the hero Konrad de la Fuente on an individual play that ended with an American shot that went wide. Eibar’s victory allowed them to overtake Karera in the standings.