• Statistics.The match, live

In Ipurua , in reality, you never play at an empty door. From the two towers that rise above the field, the match is perfectly observed and warned based on shouts that there is a penalty (there were three), a clear occasion or a hard foul. Or go to know what. And the news comes to the Ipurua bar, at the door of the field, as if they were doing it through a broken transistor. Something has happened, it is not known whether good or bad for the gunsmith, until a while later the television shows what has happened just a few meters away, in a field sealed with lime and song in which the Royal Society won by 1 -two.

The Gipuzkoan derby is the first league game behind closed doors because of the coronavirus . It has been played today because in its day it had to be postponed by another crisis, that of the Zaldibar landfill , about three kilometers from the field, and the consequent emission of toxic gases. "And that was much worse," warns Estíbaliz, behind the bar counter. Of the small one, because it did not compensate yesterday to take to the street the great one. There was hardly anyone, not even the vendors of scarves and souvenirs who usually decorate the stadium's surroundings. “Originally - he continues - the game was played on a Sunday at four, which is a fabulous schedule for us. And look ... We've bought 50 loaves of bread for snacks that we're going to have to throw away . A day like this we invoice what in a whole week, we will stop earning between 1,500 and 2,000 euros ».

A few meters away, under the highway that connects San Sebastián and Bilbao, members of Eskozia La Brava watch the game together at the La Bolera bar. They will have refused to enter Ipurua, but not encourage their Eibar, even if it has to be at a distance. " Without fans there is no football, " they claim. They reflect a general feeling in Eibar. Here nobody understands anything and rages anger. “The match is between two Guipuzcoan teams and in the whole province there are only eight positive for coronavirus . Do you understand? ”Asks an elderly lady, resigned to not being able to see her Real.

Within the stadium there are only players, technicians, referees, television production workers and personnel presumably essential for the development of the match. Outside, the feeling is strange. There is football, but there isn't. This is Ipurua, but it is only for its case. Rousseau hugging Queen: All for the people, but without the people, the show must go on.

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