Face the Getafe from Jose Bordalás it's a headache for almost all teams. He tends to take the games to his ground and to sink your teeth into it you have to solve a complex system of equations. Something that he Athletic has not deciphered in recent years. He has been unable to beat the azulones in the three recent seasons, which accumulate in the League with the Alicante at the controls. They have met six times with a balance of two defeats and four draws for the rojiblanco team. Bordalás bolt with the lions. Tomorrow there will be the seventh confrontation.
East Getafe perfectly meets the team profile that is historically choked to the Athletic. Rocky and with few options for the game to take flight. It is true that the Madrilenians have not shown themselves at the beginning of the current season as effective as in the past. But they don't over-concede either.
The Bilbao squad has not found the formula despite having advanced in three of the four stakes that ended in a draw. In one even up to twice. This disenchantment movie for him Athletic it started in San Mamés on the first day of 2017-18 (0-0). It was the league premiere of Ziganda on the bench and the return to the elite of Getafe. The visitors, who protested a possible ghost goal, finished with ten and Williams he forgave a couple of clear options.
The return of the visit resulted in another draw (2-2). A duel marked by eleven meters. There were three penalties. Williams struck first for the Zurigorris and responded Jorge Molina transforming the first maximum penalty. Raul Garcia gave again from the fatal point. To the third came the error. Herrerín committed an infraction inside the area, but he took out his thorn by winning the game Molina. Angel, leaving as a shock, would sign the final 2-2 with a quarter of an hour to go.
More of the same in the 2018-19 academic year. With Berizzo hanging by a thread, a week later he would be removed, the Athletic did not go from 1-1 in San Mamés. Again, progress was made in the luminous area thanks to a header from Nolaskoian, but Bush leveled off in an oversight of the defense. And it could be worse because the engagement ended up involved in controversy with a grab for Iñigo Martinez on Bush within the area that neither Villanueva churches, referee on the field, nor the VAR they were able to see.
In the second round, already with Garitano on the bench and with the lions recovering positions in the table, Bordalás and his Getafe they claimed victory in another close match (1-0). Angel he did his thing coming from the bench, a real specialty, in 78 '.
The curse ran its course last year. 1-1 in the Coliseum after the Athletic will score the first goal through Raul Garcia. Bush he replied immediately. The two goals occurred in the initial quarter hour of the crash. The people of Bilbao had no options in San Mamés. The Getafe he was living a sweet moment before the pandemic devastated and it was much higher (0-2). Damien Suarez signed a great goal and Bush put the tip to transform a penalty. The forward has scored in three of the last four games against the rojiblanco team.
Bordalás has the measurement taken Athletic. It is not that he is used to winning, but he does not lose even if he has to row against the current. The Getafe and the Real Madrid they are the only teams that the lions have not won in the last three Suspenders. Also appears Cadiz, but the sample is reduced to a stake. The painful 0-1 of this season. With the rest they have been able to with all at least once. With Barcelona, Atlético, Real Sociedad, Villarreal, Seville… But the azulones are a stone in the shoe, to the joy of Bordalás.