Like an eternity has passed since the last game of the Athletic fifteen days ago. The nonsense moved from the pitch to the offices with a surreal market closure, with the name of Llorente on the table; with Rafa Alkorta Y Aitor elizegi taking the word and offering opposing versions; with the rojiblancos players positioning themselves in this regard. What we have to do now is to start fixing the mess from the green.
He Athletic he puts his credit on the line in the next round of encounters, in which he will try to shake off all his fears and remove from the dictionary a word that has begun to haunt the heads of many too soon: descent. He I raised visit San Mamés (14 hours, Alberola Rojas, Goal). The zurigorris came out very touched from the first block of competition. Due to the poor results obtained against squads that point to permanence as a manifest objective and due to the tendency to get stuck in their offensive aspect.
Nor is it that the most immediate calendar of the Athletic. But everything happens for what those led by are able to offer in the green Garitano. In this stroke, apart from the I raised, they will see the faces with Osasuna, Seville and Valladolid. The granotas have accompanied the lions in the last few weeks in relegation places. They present the same balance: one victory, three defeats and one pending appointment. However, the path of the Orriols has had some more curve. They fell in front of Valencia, Seville Y Real Madrid and they were imposed on Osasuna.
No one is free from the exam in the Athletic. Unlike. Everyone is questioned. Starting with the bench. Although both Elizegi how Alkorta agreed to place their full trust in Garitano. Football, yes, works the order of the day and if the results do not arrive …
The statistics of the Athletic -Levante
A victory is likely to change the landscape in San Mamés. Either way. Three points would remove the black clouds and allow a glimpse of a clearing, not to mention the confidence shot that it would mean for the players. A circumstance on which Garitano It has been influencing his last appearances. The whiting that bites its tail. There are mistakes on the green, the course is not straightened, morale is hurt and it starts again.
There are several statistics that the Athletic He will try to blow up the air to remove several tiles from above. In the heaviest of all the last four defeats are reflected in San Mamés consecutively, three of the past year and that of the Cadiz. The worst streak in history for the rojiblancos. But also Williams, Raul Garcia or Muniain will be willing to see the door and that all the data that speak of the poor offensive figures of the Athletic stay in the drawer.
The main novelty in the eleven of Garitano, according to what he showed in the session on Friday, he would be in the ownership of Berenguer to the left; accompanying Muniain, Raul Y Williams in the attack. Yeray would return once his muscle injury was overcome, returning to Nunez the bench, and the loss due to coronavirus Yuri would be resolved with the entry of Balenziaga.
In the I raised, Aitor Fernandez he exercised yesterday with the group and entered the list of 23 troops despite the fact that his father died on Friday. Vukcevic did not travel due to muscle discomfort and Paco Lopez recovers for the cause a Rochina, who had been out of circulation since the end of August due to a tear in the rectus quadriceps.