MADRID, 19 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Athletic Club has consolidated its position in fourth place in LaLiga EA Sports after beating RC Celta this Sunday in Abanca Balaídos (1-2), in a twentieth matchday in which goals from Alex Berenguer and Dani Vivian extended the lead to eleven. streak of unbeaten league games for Ernesto Valverde’s team.
In the first minutes at the Vigo venue, the visitor Adama Boiro and the local Yoel Lago thwarted the first approaches of the light blue and ‘lions’, before Nico Williams forced goalkeeper Vicente Guaita to stretch when the first goal had not yet been completed. quarter of an hour into the game.
Alex Berenguer was encouraged with a header that narrowly missed, but it was Beñat Prados who had the clearest chance after the first half hour, a shot from the outside that Guaita took again with a providential hand to save the Galicians.
After the restart, Berenguer warned again with a deflected shot in the 55th minute and made no mistake shortly after, in the 62nd minute; Nico Williams opened for his brother Iñaki, who in turn put in a good cross that the Navarrese attacker sent to the back of the net.
Nine minutes later, the Bilbao team seemed to end the match; Guaita stopped a shot by Unai Gómez and the rebound, which Javi Manquillo could not clear, was finished off by Vivian in an acrobatic manner (min.71).
However, Claudio Giráldez’s team responded to the blow and closed the gap three minutes later, when Hugo Álvarez took advantage of a defensive error by Adama Boiro to score a low shot that hit the post before entering the goal (min.74).
Celta searched tirelessly for a draw, but could not avoid Athletic’s second consecutive victory, which leaves behind its defeats against FC Barcelona (0-2), in the Spanish Super Cup, and against Osasuna (2-3), in the King’s Cup. Ernesto Valverde’s team now has 39 points, the same as Barça, five behind the lead and 15 more than the Vigo team (24), who remain thirteenth with only five points ahead of relegation.