You need a miracle to avoid relegation to Second.
LMathematics still allows for some hope, but the general feeling at the end of the Granada game was that Eibar had just exhausted its last option to continue dreaming of permanence. The dressing room looked like a funeral and even José Luis Mendilibar, who had been trying for weeks to be positive despite the fact that everything was against him, acknowledged in the Nuevo Los Cármenes press room that the team had “very few options to save itself.” The last thrust came in Andalusia and it is a matter of weeks before a decline announced in the last four months is certified.
This Eibar is something I want and I can’t. Soccer limitations are visible and the 15 games that he has not won have destroyed the self-esteem of a broken team, unable to get up when the rival slaps it first and is living a nightmare.
Not in the worst of their dreams would these footballers have expected that the outcome of the season would have such a cruel and bitter fate. The illusion has flown through the air and each game is an ordeal. 90 endless minutes that portray the worst squad in the category and that put into question the planning that was carried out last summer.
José Luis Mendilibar has tried everything. System changes, moving all the possible pieces of the board, pulling the subsidiary, trying to maintain the good atmosphere on a day-to-day basis despite the fact that the defeats have been accumulating.
Losing bellows
But there has been no way. It all started in the month of February, when Eibar suddenly faced five crucial meetings against direct rivals in which they were only able to add two points out of 15 possible. Since then, the team has been losing steam by leaps and bounds until reaching a point of no return like the one it is currently experiencing.
A general problem, which goes beyond positions or specific players. There are those who believe that the Council should have taken action on the matter by changing the coach when there was still room. A bullet that Huesca, Elche or Alavés have known how to take advantage of.
Eibar did not do it because they valued what Mendilibar had done in the previous five years and because they considered him to be the ideal person to reverse the situation. A technician who has always gotten more performance than expected from the templates that Fran Garagarza has made for him. The miracles do not give for more and this year is impossible.
