Good start for Elche, bad start for Eldense

The Elche team will have a somewhat “calm” start in the first four days with three home matches at the Martínez Valero stadium against rivals like Racing de Ferrol who will not a priori compete for the top of the table. Villarreal B and Racing de Santander.

However, Elda’s team will face a very tough start with five away games in the first seven days and against opponents who mostly started as favourites for promotion. These are the states of Cartagena, Zaragoza, Espanyol and Levante and Villarreal B.

Nuevo Pepico Amat needs reform and adaptation for professional football and this has forced Eldense to demand their first away game.

The competition will begin on the weekend of August 11-13, and the entire first round will be played until Wednesday, December 20, when the Christmas holiday break comes.

There will be matches every week for the first 21 days – no UEFA team holidays in the silver category – and there will be two days a week. Wednesday, October 20th, in addition to the last one on Wednesday, October 4th. The television will also mark bets placed on Friday, Saturday or Sunday; or Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in the case of two days during the week.

Restarts on January 13

LaLiga SmartkBank reboot will happen, After the Christmas break and the round of 32 controversy King’s Cupon January 13 with the start of the second round.

The regular league will end on the weekend of June 1-2, and from the 10th, promotion play-off qualifiers will be held, which will last until the weekend of June 22-23, when the season ends.

Inter-provincial derbies Elche and Eldense will be played on the eleventh day scheduled for the weekend of October 13-15 at Nuevo Pepico Amat. And the penultimate day, at the Martínez Valero stadium on the weekend of May 24-26, 2024.

Elche will start at home against Racing de Ferrol, who recently rose from First RFEF. On the second day, they will have their first touchstone against Eibar, another of the promotion candidates in Ipurúa. They will then host back-to-back Villarreal B and Racing Santander before visiting Valladolid, who were finally relegated from Primera, on matchday five.

Franjiverdes will have a good opportunity to nominate promotions from the first game.

Sergio Mantecón, Elche’s technical secretary, evaluates the calendar positively, especially in terms of the fact that it starts from home. “In Division Two the equality is at its maximum and it’s very difficult to assess opponents and aspirations before starting but the most important thing is to start with our people at Martínez Valero. To start winning it’s important to start from home. We have to do that. “Martínez Valero is a force. The first days are not certain, but we have the experience of the 2012-2013 season, where we won the first seven games and won the first game from the first to the last game. The right foot is very important.” .

direct competitors

In the first round, the Elche team will face Levante on the eighth match day and Tenerife on the third match day. In the 15th and 16th there will also be clashes with direct opponents in the struggle for promotion, such as Zaragoza and Espanyol.

The first major away game for Franjiverde fans will be in the derby against Eldense in October and Albacete in early November.

Elche will start the second round in Tenerife and then host Valladolid, so they will need to be well prepared for the Christmas holidays. At the end of February, they will play two more tough matches in a row against Eibar at home and in Cartagena. On matchdays 32-33, the Elche team will play two matches against Levante and Ferrol. The Ciutat de València match, which is scheduled to be played on March 24, is another match marked in red by the fans.

Elche will play in Zaragoza on matchday 35 in the final part of the championship, and the next two will play at home against Sporting and Espanyol. By then, many things could become clear in the fight for promotion.

The last five games will be Racing Santander away, Huesca home, Mirandés home, Eldense home to finish the regular season against Leganés.

The aim of the Franjiverde team is to reach the end of the regular league amongst the top two to qualify for promotion without having to go through the dramatic “play-off” qualifying rounds.

start very hard

Eldense, on the other hand, will need to be calm and patient. Returning to the category after 59 years, the player will make a very difficult start to the league, as well as being promoted to the league recently.

They visited Cartagena and Villarreal B in the first two days. Their first home game will be against a candidate like Eibar on the weekend of August 26-28. They will then play in Zaragoza and take up Alcorcón, who is again promoted from the RFEF First Division, and immediately play at home against the other two big favourites, Espanyol and Levante.

As if that weren’t enough, the Catalans will host Oviedo and Valladolid back-to-back at the beginning of October on the eighth and new match days.

From then on, the calendar gets kinder, with Ferrol away and home games against Amorebieta and Burgos.

Barça fans, on the other hand, will host Albacete on the last day, in addition to the derby they will play against Elche in the first round.

The start of the second round will also be difficult for the Eldans, as the first guests of Nuevo Pepico Amat are Zaragoza and Espanyol.

They will play two matches against Ferrol and Villarreal B at home on days 28 and 29, and two matches against Racing de Ferrol and Eibar at home on days 32 and 33. The end of the league will also be difficult. Levante and Elche are both likely to risk promotion on the penultimate and penultimate day; and in the last against Sporting de Gijón.

Eldense’s technical secretary Víctor Lafuente appreciated the draw and said that “the first two games away from home will be difficult because we are facing a category established Cartagena aiming for bigger goals and visiting one of the best Villarreal subsidiary”. youth academies in Spain with senior players”.

Despite this, the person in charge of the sports ground says, “We are all very excited to experience the First Division games in Elda and to face these teams with such a tradition.”