Interesting game and even is what awaits us this Thursday at the Municipal Stadium El Molinón, when the cast of the Second Division as Sporting Gijón is visited by a team from the First Division as is Eibar, in game corresponding to the first leg the last sixteen of the Copa del Rey of Spain.
Sporting Gijón:
For the time being led by Ruben Baraja he is doing a somewhat regular season, so come to draw at zero goals at home against Córdoba and thus added a streak of four games without losing and here we include the series by the previous round of the Cup del Rey in his visit to Rayo Majadahonda.
But despite this unbeaten streak, what worries his fans is that his team struggles to get victories, since with the draw against Córdoba they added a streak of five games without a win, where four went through the Second Division and these results place him in 10th place with 14 points in eleven games.
In the positive is that so far has made respect the house, and so of its six home games so far this season does not know of defeats, where even four of them ended in victories, and this game against Eibar hopes to maintain that unbeaten in a Copa del Rey where his last good participation was in the 2008/09 edition when he reached the quarterfinals being eliminated by Athletic Bilbao.
What if you have to keep in mind, that his last participations in the Copa del Rey are not very positive, since they add two wins in the last eleven games and both came as a visit.
Eibar:
For their part, those led by José Mendiliba have also been fighting for victories in this season’s start, Eibar is losing 4-0 in their visit to Celta and they have only added one victory in their last five games Liga, so they are ranked 15th with only eleven points.
What has worried his fans and especially the coach are his problems in defense, since with the four goals received the last weekend he scored 17 goals in ten presentations and with this they are the third weakest defense in the league, but they hope to change this story in the Copa del Rey where they have made good presentations, as happened in the 2016/17 edition when they reached the quarterfinals being eliminated by Atlético de Madrid.
Playing away from home Eibar has been very irregular with just one victory in its five starts, and this was during his visit to Girona, although within these positive results we can include the draw at one goal in his visit to Atlético de Madrid.
In terms of direct confrontations, it must be said that Eibar has seen better in the last four official games where they have three victories for just one of Sporting Gijón, where two of those wins were achieved in this scenario.
Within these four games, two were in the round of 16 of the Copa del Rey edition 2016/17 and both were triumphs of Eibar.
PREDICTION: Both teams to score / YES @ 1.90
