Athletic rescued the triples in San Mamés against Mallorca in their victory (3-1) on Saturday. A number of goals that the set of Gaizka Garitano it had not reached as a local since the end of October. It was against Espanyol (3-0) on the eleventh matchday. A game that had a couple of extra elements, such as zeroing the goal itself defended by Unai Simon. Or the one to cut a negative streak of the lions of five consecutive games without winning, with three defeats and two draws in that lot.
But, as the character from some old cartoons said, ‘don't go yet, there is still more’. The Bilbao squad has taken eight games at home to regain at least two goals. The previous record occurred at the beginning of December, on the fifteenth league game, in the victory (2-0) against Granada.
In the clash with Espanyol on October 30, Muniain practically signed a double in the first quarter of an hour of the game. The 1-0, picking up a loose ball in the middle of the cross-beat area to beat Diego Lopez. The 2-0, with a right hand from the edge of the area, hunting a rebound after a corner. The third goal was from the parakeet Victor Gomez in own door when trying to cut an advance also carried out by the rojiblanco captain. With that triumph European hopes returned, leaving behind five clashes without winning in which they fell with Valencia (0-1), Celta (1-0) and Atlético de Madrid (2-0) and tied with Leganés (1-1) in Butarque and Valladolid (1-1) in San Mamés.
And in that last appointment with Mallorca (3-1) the authors were Raúl García penalty, Sancet in a play rehearsed in a corner with the participation of Unai López and Williams, and the third of Villalibre, culminating a rapid offensive action fabricated by two other soda men as Córdoba and Vesga. Varied.
But if those of Garitano They have found it difficult to score three goals in San Mamés, the same has happened to make the score go up a second. The previous precedent came from the clash of December 1 against Granada (2-0). On that occasion, the scorers were Raúl García, penalty, and Yuri Berchiche.
In their next performance at home, the rojiblanco team equalized without goals against Eibar. Later, a new tie came, in that case with Celta (1-1), with initial success of Rafinha and the posterior of Raúl García penalty. Getafe even managed to take all three points (0-2) with the notches of Damián and Mata, the second with a maximum penalty.
The same as the azulona troop of Bordalás Osasuna made it (0-1), thanks to both Oier. The lions reacted with the victory with Villarreal, although it was with a single goal (1-0), the one scored by Raúl García penalty. With Atlético de Madrid, in the first game after the halt due to the coronavirus pandemic, the tables returned (1-1) to San Mamés. With target of Muniain first and of Diego Costa practically followed.
Against Betis they won again (1-0) the pupils ofGaritano, with a lone goal from Iñigo Martínez in its director debut as a lion. And, in the eighth, it was the defeated against Mallorca. Not only making two goals, but three. Giving a plus at a time when they need gunpowder to face their next duels in San Mamés. Not surprisingly, the next two to land will be Real Madrid and Seville. The last to do it, in mid-July, will be Leganés.