There are no videos or photos of Elche players since Tuesday’s big failure against Girona. Current interim coach Sergio Mantecón, who continues to command the team due to the lack of the club’s technical secretary and new coach, wants to keep his team and has called all training sessions at the Martínez Valero stadium. Today, he will be the one to show his face once again at a press conference before the game. Copa del Rey faces Elche and l’Alcora on Saturday (18:30). The first cup match will be played on Saturday 12 November at Ciudad Deportiva José Manuel Llaneza del Villarreal’s Mini Stadium.

player protection

Frangiverde coach wanted to work to “close” the group in the face of this clash with Elche’s team from the Preferred category. The opponent has the opportunity to achieve only positive things. This is a game that can be a real trap for the franchises as they have not won in 14 games played so far this season.

For this match, the coach does not have six A-team men. In addition to four known injured players (Javier Pastore, Helibelton Palacios, Fidel Chaves and Fede Fernández), midfielder Domingos Quina, who all had muscle problems, was not selected for his last game against Gerona.

Elche prepares for the King’s Cup match inside Martínez Valero MATHIAS SEGARRA


Other hamstring injury

The last casualty has a fibrillar tear in his hamstring and has at least three weeks of recovery ahead, so Quina is already He will return after the World Cup in Qatar, At the match where Elche visited the Atlético de Madrid stadium.

Pere Milla will also be out of the field as she was suspended when she was shown a red card in the last round. Elche at Martínez Valero against Real Madrid (1-2). The striker was ejected a few minutes before the end of extra time.

rescuing the wounded

According to information from the Franjiverde club, all the injured continue to work daily with the team’s coaches in the gym of the Martínez Valero stadium. Your vacation will start at the same time as the rest of the group, when the butler shock is over. Then the entire team will have about ten days off after Jorge Almirón’s departure, during which the club must look for a new manager.

This Friday’s practice will also take place behind closed doors at the Elche stadium. The Franjiverde locker room is guarded before a game that seems a priori simple for a First Division club, but this It can be a huge disappointment at the team’s most sensitive moment in recent years.