A Marcelino draws make him uncomfortable, especially when the score ends 1-1. This is what he said on Friday at the end of the game against Levante in the Ciutat de València, an opinion that he already expressed with forcefulness, curiously at the end of the appointment against the granotas played on February 26 of this year corresponding to the previous League. “I’m fed up with the draws to one, they are freaking me out,” he said then after adding three consecutive draws with this result after the games against Valencia and Villarreal in San Mamés.
Athletic repeats history again. On Friday he again added a new tie, this time at zero against the team led by Javier Pereira. The Bilbao team was solid in defense, with a great job from the centrals, Yeray e Iñigo Martínez, and especially with a paradón of Unai Simon a shot of Jorge de Frutos in minute 77, but blunt up, a drag that already comes from previous seasons. “We have to demand more of ourselves in attack,” reiterated the Asturian on a number of occasions.
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The truth is that his team added its seventh equalized in the light in thirteen games played to become the team that ties the most in the 2021-22 League, the same ones that its last rival and Villarreal of Unai Emerand, that on Saturday he also added a point in his visit to Celta in Balaídos (1-1). Cádiz and Mallorca are the next in this ranking. The people of Cádiz were beaten yesterday at noon against Getafe (4-0) and the Balearic Islands visit Rayo Vallecano from Andoni Iraola to close the fourteenth day.
Two draws to start
The ‘idyll’ of the set of Marcelino With this result he began at the season premiere with the 0-0 score in the visit to Elche at the Martínez Valero in a good result because the locals made merit for something else. The dynamics continued on the following day with the visit of Barça to Bilbao. The rojiblancos were clearly superior and went ahead with a goal from Iñigo Martinez headed after a corner thrown by Iker Muniain, pero Memphis Depay they tied in the final stretch of the crash when the forces of the locals began to weaken after the great physical exhaustion carried out in the first seventy minutes of play.
The team added two wins in a row in the next two matches against Celta (0-1) and Mallorca (2-0) and drew again with Atlético at the Wanda Metropolitano. Rayo surprised Bilbao with that goal from Falcao in the last play and the lions returned to add a draw to one against Valencia in Mestalla. The target of Marcos André In the 95th minute, he deprived the Bilbao team of winning for Botxo. Then came the last two wins that reflect the classification so far, against Alavés (1-0) and Villarreal (2-1), both at home. The victory against the yellows came after 22 days without competing for the second FIFA window of the season and the postponement of the match against Real Madrid corresponding to the ninth day.
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From that moment on, Athletic has drawn three matches – Espanyol, Real Sociedad and Levante at home – and lost against Cádiz at home, a match that did a lot of damage due to the image offered by the team. So much Marcelino What Iñaki Williams they had to go out and apologize to the fans at the end of the match.
The San Mamés team is missing six commitments to finish the year in the best possible way. Granada, Seville, Betis and Real Madrid have to visit Bilbao and also have to play against whites and Getafe at home. This final stretch of 2021 will largely determine if the team has enough skills to fight for Europe at the end of the course, the goal set by all levels. The sporting prestige is at stake after four years without being seen by the old continent and also the economic recovery after the break that the pandemic has produced in the coffers of the Ibaigane club.