Eibar have now waited 15 games in La Liga for another win. The Basques, who are already seven points behind the relegation zone, are taking giant steps towards relegation. Now, in the Basque derby with Real Sociedad, of all places, the turnaround should succeed. However, Erreala himself ended a drought of five winless league games on Thursday evening with a 2-1 victory over Celta Vigo.
Accordingly, in the run-up to the match between Eibar and Real Sociedad, the odds are swinging in favour of the visitors.
For Real Sociedad, after only five points out of a possible 18 from the last six league games, it is also a matter of getting qualification for an international competition into the dry. The Basques are still in fifth place. However, with Betis Sevilla and Villarreal, strong pursuers are lurking in the starting blocks.
After the turnaround against Celta Vigo, we believe that Erreala can now do the same against the bottom team. Accordingly, we recommend tip 2 for Eibar against Real Sociedad
Prediction & Live Odds for Eibar vs. Real Sociedad 26/04/2021
Our prediction for Eibar against Real Sociedad is overshadowed by the Armeros’ slump, who have not won a game in La Liga since 3 January 2021. In their seventh year in Spain’s top flight, the small club are taking giant steps towards relegation and now face a rival in the Basque derby who, after enduring a winless streak, picked up another important treble on Thursday.
Thus, in our eyes, it is most promising to bet on the next away win of the Real Sociedad, who should not let anything go wrong with a particularly offensively too harmless league bottom team in normal form. ✅
Eibar – Statistics & Current Form
Sociedad Deportiva Eibar is based in the small town of just 27,000 souls in the Basque province of Guipúzcoa. The club, whose budget for La Liga at the time also came from the savings of shareholder Xabi Alonso, was promoted to La Liga for the first time in the summer of 2014.
Since then, the Armeros have held on ironcladly to the top Spanish league. However, their resistance to the established clubs may now have been permanently broken. Six matchdays before the end of the season, practically everything points to relegation.
Only four points out of a possible 45 from the last 15 league games
In their seventh year in La Liga, SD Eibar have their backs to the wall after 15 consecutive league games without a win. The team of long-time coach José Luis Mendilibar has lost 17 of the last 32 league games.
Most recently, in April alone, there were four defeats in a row with 1:12 goals. A rebound in the final spurt of the season truly looks different.
The weakest attack in La Liga
The Blue and Reds are particularly lacking on the offensive side of the ball. The Basques scored just 23 goals in 32 league games. This makes them the weakest offensive team in La Liga, even though they have a rock-solid attacker in Kike García.
The 31-year-old scored nine goals and set up two others. He was directly involved in half of Eibar’s goals in the season. He also scored the last two league goals for the Armeros, who now go into the Basque derby as underdogs.
Predicted Eibar line-up:
Dmitrovic – Soares – Álvarez – Oliveira – Arbilla – Recio – Diop – Atienza – Gil – Pozo – Kike
Real Sociedad – Statistics & current form
Real Sociedad de Fútbol celebrated a great moment at the beginning of April. In the final of the Copa del Rey 2020, which was postponed by almost a year due to the pandemic, they beat their arch-rivals Athletic Bilbao 1-0 in the Basque derby.
Erreala thus secured the Spanish Cup for the first time in 33 years and finally celebrated a title after all those years of abstinence. However, this does not entitle “La Real” to participate in an international competition. The Basques finally agreed with Bilbao last summer when they requested the postponement of the final.
Europa League qualification in jeopardy
In addition to not getting a ticket to the Europa League, however, the overall Copa del Rey victory came at another cost: the win overshadowed the surrounding league games, in which Real Sociedad did not manage much in the interim. Imanol Alguacil’s side went winless in five consecutive games, picking up just two points out of a possible 15.
Accordingly, not only the faint hope of qualifying for the Champions League is gone. In fifth place, the Txuri-urdin now have to fear that they might even be pushed out of the Spanish top six altogether.
Only the three points count away at the bottom of the table
So it was all the more important that Erreala was able to put a temporary stop to the slide last Thursday and beat Celta Vigo 2-1. A victory that only counts, however, if the team can build on it. At the bottom of the table and by far the weakest team of the calendar year 2021, the Alguacil squad is forced to improve.
And Eibar’s tip 2 against Real Sociedad is basically under a good star. After all, the Txuri-urdin remained unbeaten in four successive duels against Eibar and also won the last away match at the Estadio Municipal de Ipurua 2-1.
Predicted Real Sociedad line-up:
Remiro – Monreal – Le Normand – Elustondo – Gorosabel – Portu – Guridi – Guevara – Januzaj – Fernández – Isak