ATHLETIC 1-EIBAR 1 Draw to goofs in San Mamés

The aperitif of the Cup gave Athletic a repetitive and tiresome draw, the eighth of the season. Eibar, now without a main sponsor, has received the slogan 'Denok batera' ('all to one') on the front of its shirt. The derby this afternoon in San Mamés has been an ‘all for one’. One goal for us and one for you. Nobody did enough to win, just what they could not to lose, and everyone was so happy. There was an infinite catalog of mistakes and no one other than Bryan Gil came out with the right to show off. Perhaps also Villalibre for a prodigious heel. The lions are taken to the final with the face of not having lost in the anteroom of La Cartuja and the gunsmiths can add again, but they will understand that some have almost canceled their ticket to Europe via the League and others do not. take off downhill. Between the fact that it is difficult for Athletic to win and Eibar cannot do it assiduously … 1-1.

The first part already ignored the good game. Mendilibar opted to strengthen the midfield, with a good wall formed by Aleix García, Diop and Sergio Álvarez. That is to say, control, positional play, waiting for events. Bryan Gil went to the right flank and Kevin stroked for the right-hander. But in those 45 minutes, everything was defined by individual errors, one per side. Eibar is clear about something this year: that it comes out with 0-1 in the dressing room, because a rude mistake always goes into the script. He arrived early this time, in the 9th minute, with an oversight in a throw-in by De Marcos, who later had time to receive and temper a single cross. As if that wasn't bad enough, Yuri emerged in the area, undetectable to everyone, especially a Bryan who was more aware of the clouds than the grass. When the gunsmith radar warned him, it was too late. The left-back volley was ‘Zidaniana’.

That anchovy could only be covered by a larger one so that it would not weigh on the minds of the visitors. Well, Unai López made it, in a mistake that should make him reflect, because if he commits such nonsense in one of the two finals that come to them in 14 days, he may be regretting it for the rest of his life. He caught the ball in the rival field and was recoiling with an air of a very spare type. He did not gauge that he was being chased by Kike García, a marathon runner who breathes you in until you get home after the game and the shower. Instead of hitting the goalkeeper quickly, he backed into his own area. Each time the fence was tightening, because Bryan Gil denied him the center and had an escort very above. The last control went away and the manchego tip stole it and scored a great goal. He has 8 of Eibar's 22 goals in this League. Unai was the author of the two goals in the first leg. Clear and shadows against the neighbor, but it showed once again that Athletic's pivots lack regularity. A gaffe of that caliber has cost Vencedor his job. Y Unai took a toll on the derby, because he has not given a right since.

The game had a dispute, rhythm in the middle of the field, but where football is really played lentils, in the areas, there were no footprints. It was a new edition of the classic-tostón of Athletic-Eibar. An annual tradition. 90 minutes that are not usually left in the archive of treasures of Spanish football. Fortunately, sometimes the monotony was broken by the infinite talent of Bryan gil, as in the 38th minute, with a collection of dribbles by the hairy Barbate player, who is getting more and more Cruyff-like. Diop passed in depth and the first cut to Yeray was already a museumBut this one, another revelation in La Liga, got up very quickly and was able to chase him. Well that his team thanked him, because the winger managed to keep making fun of people, like Yuri and Vesga, and at the last moment he was able to hinder his shot on goal. Interesting duel Yuri-Bryan, to see who tormented whom more. The visitor already put his stamp last year in San Mamés with Leganés.

Athletic noticed the blow more, for having been the last to receive it, Clear. Muniain only appeared fleetingly at the end of the first half. And Eibar does not get to get points only with Gil. So everything was headed for a draw. But Marcelino does not walk with half measures. At halftime he completely changed his engine room. Vencedor and Dani García came out and it is true that they activated the central corridors a little more, but football was on strike. Raúl participated very little and Williams did stretch the field, but he was very wrong. The decisions in and around the opposite area were gruesome.

The crash went down the drain without many more lines to write. Williams caught a couple of balls but could not get them to the net and De Marcos, in a run over, had his with the pit of his stomach, but Dmitrovic took it out like a handball goalkeeper full of reflexes with his foot. Marcelino continued to change his main protagonists. He took out Muniain and Berenguer and put Ibai and Morcillo, decisions that contributed to think that he had his head more in the Cup final than in the derby against the gunsmiths. If the idea was to put in centers, it was strange that he had removed Raúl García. A great heel pass was the only local delicatessen at all noon. It promoted Dmitrovic's fourth stop. Two were wearing Unai Simon. It even sounds bulky so much baggage for the misery of the party that was seen.

Marcelino: I'm sad “

Marcelino García Toral was clear and crystalline in reflecting his state of mind, very low after the draw against Eibar: “Sadness, I did not like what I saw on the pitch, I am sad, “says the Athletic coach, who maintains that, although it is not logical because the League is still alive, he maintains that “We have a part of the mind with only one idea, I would like it to be otherwise, but it is reality”, delve into a critical appearance with his staff, to which he demands more competitiveness and he acknowledges that he did not schedule the change of the two pivots at halftime.

The goal of the armorer's equalizer dislodged the team, with a rude mistake: “In those games this is not going to happen, we must ask ourselves why it happened today. We must ask ourselves why we do what we do not have to do, I would play anything that is not it's going to happen “, he launches, comparing with the Cup finals that are coming up in April. The permutations in the pivots (Vesga and Unai López) at the same time at rest explains them: “Even if I make a decision to change one or the other player, it is not to point to someone, soccer is a collective sport, of players and lines. I did not like the participation, decision-making and positioning and you have to move the team to find solutions, in the second half, much better and more continuous, we missed the last pass or define the clear chances, we did not.

Of the special work these two weeks, Marcelino relates that it is about “two different competitions, one is an illusion and the other an obligation. That is a very different match from today, I insist to look further, it will not weaken us mentally” , reels the Asturian coach, who remembers a “very good game against Atlético, with a bad result, and two draws later, we are still solid, the rival reaches us very little, but with errors like today's, if you give it away He takes advantage of it with a very good execution. ” He abounds in this matter: “To give a twist we must always be competitive, every second, every time and that is really missing, another 1-1, 14 points out of 33, we have to correct it to be regularly competitive “, Lance.

On the 15-day plan: “A bit of everything, football is made up of small details and arriving mentally and physically well, knowing how to develop the game. We must be able to find solutions to avoid mistakes like today, in a whole or we cannot influence it at all “, ditch. -Javier R. Beltrán

Mendilibar: “The point is fine”

Jose Luis Mendilibar, coach of the Eibar Sports Society, accepted the point scored in San Mamés after the 1-1 draw against Athletic Club despite the fact that it still does not serve the gunsmith team to leave the relegation zone.

“We had a good first half, playing what we wanted, but in the second it was hard for us. Athletic has been more on top and we have suffered. Seeing the perspective of how the game has been, the point is good “, has summed up the coach of the Gipuzkoan team in the press conference after the crash.

Mendilibar has admitted that in the final stage they have “entered the fear of losing” and that has meant that they have not been “capable of giving three passes in a row and creating danger in the opposite area”.

Regarding the goal they have conceded, he said that “the second part of the play”, the center of Oscar de Marcos and the auction of Yuri Berchiche, is “more of their merit”, but regretted that the origin of the action came in a throw-in “very badly defended” that they cannot repeat again.

“Not everything is running with the ball. Sometimes we need to stop and in the second half that has happened to us. We have had some option to change orientation and yet we have impacted on the same site. That is not our game because we have not managed to get any center, “explained the coach.

Mendilizar advanced that next week, taking advantage of the league break, they will play a friendly against Osasuna that he hopes to take advantage of to “gain confidence, play calmer and be more aggressive against the opposing goal” for the last stretch of the season in which permanence will be played.-EFE