The Eibar Herald
Squad12 Oct 2026
Anaitz Arbilla damages knee ligaments — 116 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 116 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Adu Ares runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 32. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Vintage Juan Bernat — 7.80
At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.80, and nobody on the pitch better.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A muscle injury sidelines Javi Martínez for 16 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Eibar will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Eibar
Juan Bernat and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Market12 Oct 2026
Eibar promote Ignacio Moreno from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ignacio Moreno has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Match10 Oct 2026
Eibar see off Albacete
Three points for Eibar, 1‑0 the final word against Albacete in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Eibar
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Álvaro Rodríguez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
No hiding place for Lander Olaetxea
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Lander Olaetxea, and the manager let it.
In brief
- Player ratings Iván Gil stands above it all
- The dugout A satisfied Fernando Diez
- The dugout A promise honoured at Eibar