Eibar secured a comfortable 4-0 victory over Celta B at Estadio Balaidos on Monday evening, moving further clear in their push for promotion. The result leaves the visitors second in the table with 12 points from five matches, while Celta B remain rooted to 14th place on seven points. And here's the thing — this was not a contest that required much of either side after the first twenty minutes.
Eibar struck early through Jon Magunazelaia in the ninth minute, then doubled their advantage when Malcom Ares found the net thirteen minutes in. By then Celta B were already scrambling. Guruzeta added a second in the 20th minute, the moment that really shifted the atmosphere, before completing his brace with another forty-three minutes on the clock. Ares went yellow after his goal, but the cards meant little once the scoreline opened up.
Celta B's problems compounded when Fredi received a red card in the fifty-third minute, leaving the hosts to defend with ten men for nearly forty minutes. They made three changes around half-time — Alexis Olmedo, Frank Germain Jonathan Miller, and Mateo Sobral Sabajanes — but substitution could not address the structural issues. To be fair, the visitors were not flawless either, but they did not need to be.
The statistics tell a story that surprised few who watched the match. Celta B enjoyed 67 per cent possession and completed 589 passes, yet created zero big chances and registered 1.47 expected goals. Eibar, with just 33 per cent of the ball, registered two big chances and 1.32 expected goals. Nine shots on target for the hosts produced nothing; seven for the visitors yielded four goals.
Eibar extended their recent run of results — they had not lost since their opening-day defeat to Tenerife and were unbeaten in five across all competitions. Celta B, by contrast, have now lost two of their last five league matches and sit eight points off the play-off places. The gap between them at the top of the table is widening.