Garitano's team thrashes Valladolid thanks to goals from Unai Lpez, Ral Garca, Williams and Crdoba
The Athletic players celebrate one of the goals.
Soccer literature tends to be ephemeral, almost to use and throw away. Behold this Athletic to prove. In his recent long league streak of games without a win, the lament had to do with his lack of effectiveness against the goalkeeper, a lack that made his tremendous defensive solvency almost useless. In his last two games, however, he has survived on the basis of hitting and leading. Yes in Pomegranate sealed his pass to the Cup final with a goal of Yuri in the middle of a rival shower, this Sunday in Valladolid I added the three points thanks to two goals in the first half hour and two others when the duel was already dying. And all this despite adding a total of half the number of auctions that the blanquivioleta set.
So the conclusion, this week of the season, is that Athletic is a very effective team, capable of extracting optimal performance from its offensive proposal, although it is far from plenty: 10 shots, five on goal and four goals . In football the result rules, which in this case picks up the second league victory for the locals outside of San Mams, after the achieved in The Sadar. The four goals achieved in Zorrilla represent a record in the League (in the Cup they received them Huesca and Sestao) since Garitano assumed command of Athletic and they reinforced the morale of the team, which is seen again with options to fight for the European squares.
The counterpart, of course, is for a Valladolid that everything went wrong. A porter (Masip) doubtful, a central (Salisu) dire, a forward (Enes nal) that he would not have scored a goal or with four extensions … I received a very excessive punishment Sergio Gonzlez, who was no worse than Athletic in 70% of the battlefield, but was within light of his rival in both areas and that was reflected in the 4-1 final.
It was a bad afternoon for Valladolid from start to finish, as he received the first goal in minute 4 and the last goal in 93. Unai López started the scoring, emerging from his recent ostracism, turning with aplomb and quality into a foul. direct on the front. The midfielder was one of the many new features in Garitano's lineup, just two and a half days after his classification for the Cup final. Without Capa and Nez, both sanctioned, he provided a four-man defense and also gave rest to Muniain.
Athletic's scheme, however, was variable and adapted to what Valladolid proposes. When Garitano discovered that Sergio was betting on playing with three central defenders and lanes, he ordered his players to do the same, so Yuri went to the center of the rear and Crdoba to occupy the entire lane. Valladolid generated enough danger in those minutes, especially due to the area of influence of Yeray, but none of her shots found a goalkeeper. Quite the opposite of Athletic, who scored the second after 24 minutes thanks to a center in Crdoba topped by Ral Garca at the far post.
With 0-2 already on the scoreboard, Sergio forgot his tactical experiment and returned to his traditional 4-4-2. I kept creating quite a few occasions, some of them quality. The problem was that the auctioneer had to be Enes nal, a striker with enormous conditions weighed down by his tremendous forefoot problems. Five had in total during the match, some very clear, and none took direction to goalkeeper.
Athletic managed to control their rival's attacks in the second half much more and always gave the feeling of having the situation under control. Even when Sandro, in an individual move from the right wing, managed to score a goal that gave hope to Jos Zorrilla. What came from then on, however, was even worse for the locals. Williams scored the third after a serious error of understanding between Salisu and Masip and Crdoba the fourth when picking up a dead ball on the front.
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