DEPORTIVO LA CORUNA VS EIBAR PREVIEW & PREDICTION
Deportivo La Coruna has twelve game rounds to save the life and escape the relegation zone. However, even under the recently appointed trainer Clarence Seedorf, the Galicians are still searching for only one point out of four matches. May the defeated team celebrate a victory on Saturday night at home against Eibar?
Dep. La Coruna :
The Deportivo La Coruna hangs in the ropes like a defeated boxer. Trainer Clarence Seedorf recently jumped into the deep by signing a contract at the Riazor, but he will also have his reservations. Last Wednesday, the Galicians went to visit Getafe hopelessly 3-0 down. “We gave away too many gifts and could not make a fist in the front,” Seedorf grumbled. Thanks to this defeat, Deportivo La Coruna remains in the penultimate position and must therefore continue to fear relegation.
Seedorf is now four matches at the helm at Deportivo La Coruna and the balance is nothing worthless. The blue-whites grabbed only one point in that sequence and did not even make a single goal. “We have to score,” says Seedorf. ‘In the previous three games we always managed to create opportunities, but we did not show anything against Getafe. We lack offensive decisiveness. ‘ Depor still has the safe seventeenth place in sight, but I fear that the blue-whites will not make it. Levante, Las Palmas and Deportivo La Coruna are working on a kind of musical chairs, in which realistically only one team will be retained for La Liga. Of these three teams, Las Palmas shows by far the most fighting spirit in my opinion. If Seedorf still manages to protect Deportivo La Coruna from relegation, then he really has delivered a world performance.
Eibar :
Eibar won Villarreal 1-0 on Wednesday-evening and thanks to that result may continue to hope for European football. Attacker Kike Garcia signed after fifteen minutes of play for the only goal of the game, but the base of the victory was set an hour before the kickoff, when club employees and the fans jointly wiped a fifteen centimeter layer of snow from the field. . ‘We have to be ambitious and dare to dream of more,’ says assistant trainer Inaki Bea.
Qualifying for the Europa League would indeed be a nice reward for the excellent game of Eibar. In previous seasons it was mainly a matter of stopping and surviving for the Basques, but nowadays Los Armeros also dare to take charge of the reins themselves. With players like Fabian Orellana and Ivan Alejo, the team has a lot of creativity in the midfield. Against Villarreal, Orellana managed to put Kike Garcia in position with a lovely ball. Only problem is the relatively high number of counter-hits (38). Last Wednesday, goalkeeper Marko Dmitrovic once again kept his goal clean, but that was partly due to the fact that the visitors rotated and Carlos Bacca, among other things, kept out of the basics. In any case, the defense remains the Achilles heel of the redblue.
PREDICTION: Both teams to score / YES @ 1.75
