At Ipurua Municipal stadium Eibar welcomes Lugo in a match in which the home team is a big favorite to win. The smallest town that has had a club in the First Division in the modern era now enjoys La Liga 2, but with the passion intact. The whole league knows how hard it is to play in Ipurua, and Lugo has already prepared for their visit this Wednesday. Eibar has lost only one game in the last five and at home, they have not yet lost with only three goals conceded. The Spanish second league is known as the "home league",and Lugo has lost 3 of the last 4 away matches. Eibar beat Malaga 1-0 at Rosaleda and although they played a counter-style of play then, which they always do in away games, now I expect them to return to the signature game they play at home. In order to win again at home, the Eibar players will have to defend breaks well because there are a lot of tall players in the Lugo team who are very dangerous from set-pieces. The visitors have only won 2 of their last 10 games and although they have not conceded a goal in their last two games, their defense will now be put to the test against a strong Eibar attack. In the last match, Lugo played only 0-0 against Mirandes, a team that is in the relegation zone, and although they played at home, they did not particularly impress with their performance and had only one shot on target. The good news for Eibar is that Matheus Pereira is returning to the team, a player who grew up in the famous school of Sporting from Lisbon and, along with Stoichkov, will represent the biggest threat to Lugo's goal. Although Lugo has not been playing badly lately and they have stabilized in defense, Eibar is still too strong a team for them at the moment and in this stadium, they won games against much stronger teams than the guests from Galicia. I expect a hard game and a victory for the home team, which is one of the best teams in the Spanish Segunda at the moment.
