Club Deportivo Castellon v Sociedad Deportiva Eibar

Spain

Segunda Division

Saturday 15th February 2025

Kick Off 1400 On Time!

Club Deportivo Castellon 2 Sociedad Deportiva Eibar 0, attendance 10,075

17’ 1-0

57’ 2-0

@ Estadi SkyFi Castalia (Nou Estadi Castalia)

Calle d’Osca

12004 Castellon de La Plana

€20 Admission + €1.85 booking fee, Print at Home Ticket.

2 Different Programmes available, both free.

From our overnight stop in Girona it was a 230 mile drive back south, which took just under four hours, to the town of Castellon de la Plana, home to second division team Club Deportivo Castellon. Their home is the Estadi SkyFi Castalia, known as Nou Estadi Castalia before the days of sponsorship. It was built in 1987, on the same site as their previous stadium, but with the pitch turned 90 degrees from the former and has an all seated capacity of 14,485. It is a two tier ground, with the lower level much smaller than the top, with just the main stand being under cover. The only protection required today would have been from the sun, as it hit 20 degrees during the afternoon. We’d bought tickets online, but they were readily available on the day too. Our selected seats were in the upper tier, behind the goal, but the view of the action at the near end of the pitch would have been very restricted as only about the top half of the goal frame was visible. It was the same problem from all the seats directly behind the width of the 18 yard box, so we moved to the corner instead, where the view was very good and managed to drop lucky that the actual seat holders didn’t arrive! As with last night, the away following was poor. From our seats it looked as though there were only a dozen or so in the away seats in the corner, at the far end from us.

The match was 17th versus 14th in the league table and was a far more open game than last night’s. Castellon opened the scoring after seventeen minutes, when a corner from the right was smashed high into the roof of the net from the edge of the six yard box. Twelve minutes into the second half they scored their second, breaking quickly down the right from the halfway line, before cutting inside and finishing with a low angled shot into the far corner. Eibar did have a goal disallowed for offside late on, but never looked like getting anything from the game once they’d conceded the second goal.

Despite the game only finishing at 15.53, we were still in the car for just after 4 o’clock, having bagged a good parking spot in the road leading back towards the motorway, just the other side of the roundabout next to the ground. We were heading another 44 miles further south, hopefully in time to see a second game at 17.15.