First Division - Day 17

Eibar 2 - Sporting Gijón 0

Eibar: Riesgo; Capa, Mauro Dos Santos, Iván Ramis, Lillo; Escalante, Dani García (Adrián González 76'); Keko (Luna 87’), Saúl Berjón, Verdi (Sergi Enrich 89‘); Borja Bastón. 4-2-3-1.
Sporting: Cuéllar; Lora (Alex Barrera 79’), Guitián, Jorge Meré, Alex Menéndez (Isma López 63‘); Rachid, Omar Mascarell; Halilovic, Dani Ndi, Jony; Sanabria (Carlos Castro 62‘). 4-2-3-1.

Goals:
1-0. 55. Keko. Controlled deflected Verdi cross and fired angled shot past Cuéllar.
2-0. 62. Borja Bastón. Ran on to Berjón through ball and poked shot past keeper.

Yellow cards: Alex Menéndez 07’, Guitián 39’, Iván Ramis 60’, Lillo 64’, Dani García 67’, Lora 71’.

Eibar are back up to ninth after a 2-0 victory over Sporting Gijón, a relief for coach Mendilibar after his side had only picked up two points from their last five games. The Basques were celebrating their 75 th anniversary, and they had the better of the first half, Borja bringing a good save out of Cuéllar, and Saúl Berjón firing a couple of efforts over the bar. Halilovic shot wide and Rachid tested Riesgo in reply, but some ten minutes in to the second half Keko opened the scoring for the locals after controlling a cross from Verdi. Seven minutes later Borja made it two after latching on to Saúl’s pass, and Keko came close to extending the lead when he shot just wide later on.