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But they've come through and are flying high now.

Level on points with Eibar, who went on a run of seven games themselves, winning.

Almeria have also gone on a long winning run.

And now Granada look like they're... aiming to equal that five in a row so far.

They drew 1-1 at Burgos.

And Almería are just a point behind them after they also drew 1-1 at Eibar, who are third.

Oviedo play Las Palmas this afternoon.

They do.

Obviously, they haven't yet played, but we'll talk about his appointment.

The all-top-six clash between Eibar and Almeria and Granada's five in a row.

Can it last? In part two, we'll talk about the other all-top-six clash, that's Burgos against Castellón, Albacete moving off the bottom, and the run-breaker, that game between Real Sociedad Bay and Girona.

Remember, you can get part two early and ad-free and support the running cost of the show for less than the price of a coffee a month, probably less than the price of two coffees a month nowadays with the price of coffees.

But Paulo Gazzaniga was the hero with a double save from the penalty.

They then played Girona 75 minutes with 10 and almost held out until Astyarazan got the winner to break Girona's good run and get the B-side's first point since early September.

Third met second in Iparua with Almeria going ahead early on before a late Pajinho equaliser for Eibar meant that the game ended 1-1.

Celta Fortuna played out an eventful 2-2 draw with Cordoba.

Shall we talk a little bit about the football yesterday, Liam? There were five games, obviously one of which we don't really need to cover because it was the focus of part one.

But let's start with the first game of the day and Cordoba beat Eibar.

By two goals to nil and a pretty brutal performance from Cordoba which I think had been coming and a defeat for Eibar which if anyone's listened to the show across the last few weeks they would have heard me say a number of times has also been coming.

Yeah, I think it's worth bearing in mind that Eibar were pretty weakened by injury, weren't they? They had several players missing at the back, which certainly would have had an effect.

I mean, I think Jair is the kind of player you bring in at this stage in the last 20 minutes to shut up shop.

And they've done that on a number of occasions recently.

Potentially exposed players like Jair, who's a really excellent, solid defender, but perhaps not the quickest, shall we say.

And I feel Cordoba totally deserved the win.

Mallorca have been away for the last two weeks.

Went 1-0 up in Eibar, 1-0 up in Leganes and got pegged back to one each in both games.

So only two points from a possible six.

All right, we do say don't lose your away games, win your home games.

Already at the end of October.

I was going to say, but we weren't expecting Eibar to be up there.

Then Girona, we expected Granada up there, Burgos, Mallorca.

There's going to be a lot of teams pushing for those playoffs.

games.

So just on them, yeah, they're not quite firing where they would have thought they would be.

They've only won one in their last five and drawn their last two, which was both away at Eibar and Leganes.

So I'm going to go for a draw.

Question three, career path question.

I have played for Real Sociedad B, Real Sociedad, Eibar loan, Liverpool, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich.

Alonso, Xabi Alonso.

Xabi Alonso is the correct answer.

But have you heard stories like that of somebody, for example, supporting, I don't know, Racing Santander or Celta Vigo, for example? I

can give you an example for Eibar.

We created a content series called United States of La Liga.

where we were trying there was to highlight specific fans, and I think it's available on YouTube or on ESPN in the US, how specific fans, why specific fans were supporting a specific team.

I mean, in a lot of times, he needs to wake up at 5 a.m. in the morning to watch a Villarreal game.

So it's massive.

Or we had a couple from Eibar that traveled to Spain and got married at the stadium.

And because they got married there and they found kind of like that experience amazing, they became Eibar season ticket holders, even if they are not in Spain and they cannot attend the game.

Yeah

... uh, Oviedo at home, Eibar away.

Now obviously Mallorca are sixth, Eibar are third and then Oviedo are ninth.

So all-

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