ATHLETIC 2-GRANADA 2 | Gift night in San Mamés

Marcelino is irritated by ties to a point, because they imply some blunder. Well, he received a double ration, two-goal tables in a commitment to a carousel of emotions, because nothing was lacking in the San Mamés cocktail shaker. They are already eight tied with Marcelino. Bizarre goals, three injured at Granada that join the five he already had, a monumental blunder by Simón that forced Iñigo Martínez to play the guy and, in fact, he saw the red … and the heart at one hundred per hour before him unpredictable that were the more than 100 minutes of the game. Third consecutive week in which the lions are unable to beat an opponent of lesser rank. Cádiz, Levante and Granada. That way you don’t go anywhere. They make him want to, nobody doubts it, but he lacks what is important. Football. And it is no longer that a goal is missing, that this time two were billed, it is that the team does not have any residue. Of the four goals, three and a half were due to regrettable failures. Gift night in San Mamés.

Moreno opted for two points Molina-Suárez and the very direct game, with an Athletic that had a fiery start, pressing up and stealing. Of course, he continues with problems in the construction of the game, on the violin. The Nasrids started giving a lot of sandpaper, without hesitation. The situation seemed idyllic for the lions almost from the half-way. How misleading! The debate on whether or not there is a goal for Athletic, which can be very long, was blown up in the tenth minute with the Nasrid gift. Montoro was on sales, on ‘black friday’ maybe. At the start of the game, he was overconfident. He received it from the doorman and he didn’t even look around, he wanted to pass it diagonally as in a party or a training session. Muniain stole his wallet and not precisely because of fierce pressure, simply because he was passing by. The captain raised his head and passed it to Raúl García, who without any mark because Torrente was walking to something else, turned his ankle very well to keep the ball out of Maximiano’s reach, next to the furthest stick.

So with 80 minutes to go, the buzz was starting to fade. It was a liberating moment for the lions. Muniain began to grow with a lot of participation. Granada changed the score. He tried to play more short and associate. And it was growing. Rochina approached the tips. When Marcelino’s team was doing better, the absurdity arrived. Dani García was soft in an exit of the game and they hung it for him. The ball fell into Machís’ boots, who successfully challenged Lekue. He neglected his task, because the striker is left-handed and did not sense that he always escapes from the same side. His cross shot, the first away shot of the night, was a goal. Unai Simón could do something more likely.

In another play that leaves more than one portrayed, Muniain lost a very dangerous ball in three quarters of the field and Granada launched a furious counterattack. The captain was petrified while six of his teammates returned to the defensive zone to fix their damage. Dani García also appeared fatefully in the photo of Molina’s goal, as he accidentally hit the ball and enabled the Nasrid forward against Simón. The same as those strange, sordid that Athletic usually admits.

In nine minutes, Granada turned the tables and exposed the mental fragility of the Basque team. And the background noise circulated again in the stands. Was a minor team like Rayo or Cádiz going to storm the Cathedral again? People were not willing to accept it. The Granada gritted its teeth. His with the centrals is a drama. Germán, the head of the defense, was injured and left his place to Abram, so Moreno had to form a defense with two unusual center-backs and left-handers. Lozano, Domingos Duarte and Víctor Díaz were already watching the clash on TV. Without doing too much beyond taking advantage of local errors and prodding them with goals, Granada were ahead on the scoreboard.

Athletic was standing still and needed dynamism, striker with continuity, although that was never achieved. Only Nico Williams had some spark and was even acclaimed for the first time by the audience. The hardships did not stop for Granada and Machis suffered a puncture when he mounted a dangerous counterattack. Neva came out in his place, with the order to annul the youngest of the Williams. The substitution was delayed for two minutes, which were great for Granada, because at that time I felt some burden due to the rojiblanco push. Muniain was disappearing minute by minute. It seems that everything was left to individual inspiration. As a genius of Raúl García, who saw Maximiano ahead in 57. He had the play in his head very clear. On the half turn, with a slip included, he drew an arc and the leather hit the crossbar.

Robert Moreno’s team was more that of Diego Martínez, with three centrals if Sancet joined Raúl García at the top, and with continuous tricks so that nothing was gambled. Marcelino put another Williams, the oldest, in search of the reaction. And Granada did not stop bleeding from injuries. Rochina was the next to fall. He couldn’t even walk without two helpers as crutches. Third window of forced changes due to ailments. Athletic finally counterattacked, with the impulse of Iñaki Williams. Zarraga came in to give more play on the inside and tried it from the outside, with Maximiano’s popcorn. But this group is not for elaborations, that is a desert.

The tie at two was with a bizarre play and point of bad fortune between Torrente and Abram. The first one slipped, Abram cleared, the ball went to the post and before Muniain’s annoyance, Maximiano put it into his own goal with the impetus to return to his natural position. Athletic pushed and pushed, but it did not come for more. It could even be worse with a song by Simón, who committed Iñigo Martínez to suicide. He gave him a very committed pass and the international center-back played his skin on Suárez to avoid his hand-in-hand with the goal. The referee showed him a yellow card, but they asked him to review it. He did so and kicked off the ondarrutarra. On the free-kick, Yeray avoided the goal on the goal line. Five games without winning is an eternity. The ship is adrift.