Elche faces the final stretch of the first round with good feelings, with a recognizable team that Eder Sarabia has molded in his style, but with room for improvement, recognized by the environment and by the coach himself. The franjiverde squad receives Racing de Santander on Thursday (7:00 p.m.) and travels to Castellón to face the albinegra squad on Sunday (4:15 p.m.), two highly demanding duels to continue establishing itself at the top of the classification .

The truth is that the franjiverdes link three days in playoff positions after a somewhat hesitant start and marked by the closing of the transfer market. An area in which they want to finish the first round, something that historically the Elche club has not been good at.

Since the implementation of the promotion promotion in the 2011/12 campaign, Elche has only finished the first section of the league in the top six on one occasion: in 12/13, in that 'Elche of records', when They finished in December with 49 points, the highest mark recorded in the Second Division, being leaders from the first day and setting an unrepeatable scoring rhythm, which would ultimately help them to rise with the help of Fran Escribá in the bench.

Since then, the franjiverdes have competed in the silver category for five seasons, with different objectives, but in none of them did they close the first round of the course in the top six. The closest was 19/20, where they achieved promotion again with Pacheta as coach. On that occasion they finished in eighth position with 31 points and one away from the promotion zone.

Last year with Sebastián Beccacece, the team finished with 30 points, in twelfth position and three away from the goal. The task is not easy but neither is it impossible for Sarabia, who at this point has 30 points and a rhythm that can bring a happy and peaceful Christmas to the lands of Elche.