CUP OF THE KING | A super champion subscribed to suffering in the Cup

This format of the Cup carries a scythe on the shoulder and goes from claw to claw. Atlético, Eibar, Real Madrid … there are many who no longer tell about it. Athletic came to the Pitiusas Islands as a fashionable team, having lifted the Super Cup. And he did not want to fatten the ranks of the losers, but he was on the verge, very close to ceasing to be the super champion and living a super bout. After getting ahead of Ibiza and tying the rojiblanco team, when it seemed that the most difficult thing was done, the Balearic Islands began to combine, taking fouls and corners near the area and around Ezkieta's goal. Things were getting tricky, very ugly, and everything pointed to extra time. A foul on Muniain reached the unexpected solution. Lekue took it from the right and sent it to the heart of the area, where Núñez hooked it from below very well to imitate Yuri from Granada last year and grant an agonizing classification. Life with drama is the one that this team likes the most, like in the penalty shootouts of the previous season or that climax of Nuevo Los Cármenes. There is already another superhero in the finalist of this tournament. Premiere and with fright They are subscribed to suffering.

Marcelino said that it doesn't matter how it happens, that the important thing is to move forward. So it will be good to have left so many hairs in the cat flap. He had to put Muniain and Raúl García, both giants on set pieces, into the fray after the break, to look further into the Ibizan goal. This Carcedo team is not a Second B out of three to quarter. He wanted to be the Alcoyano of the day, in addition, by numbers he looks like the best of all Second B, with only one goal accepted in ten games.

Athletic, with Sancet as the second starting point accompanying Villalibre, he was not comfortable On the small artificial grass pitch in Can Misses, in front of a much better adapted Ibiza, perhaps the best thing was to control and try to drive, instead of going long. A mistake by Vencedor, too much, led to a light blue walk to the front of the area and the easy shot by Javi Pérez to make it 1-0. Athletic suffered the unspeakable to chain several passes in a row and their approaches were reduced to lateral centers. Given that, an enemy with a great job in surveillance to prevent Villalibre and the rest of the offensive front from running.

Everything Muniain takes off while standing turns into gold, and more with an ogre in the area like Raúl García. The diabolical society of the Super Cup tied at 52 after a corner. With the changes, the panorama was turning towards Bilbao. But a new defensive oversight in a corner kick allowed a new advantage for the Pitiusas Islands team. It was the 63rd minute, and Kike López lodged it in the net, but Sibo was in the trajectory and in positional offside. It did not bother Ezkieta and the goal, without the VAR checking, was canceled. The origin had been a gift from Berenguer, who spent an afternoon of torture. The defense was hunted by a good blocking. Another masterful move by a Carcedo, Emery's right-hand man for many years and this is known for a while. The decision must have stirred the conscience of the referee González Fuertes, because then he did not see a clear penalty to Williams, who was shamelessly run over in an internship in the area. Ekain tried in 80 from outside the area and the tie went to limbo with the prodigy of Núñez.

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Marcelino: “We are satisfied, it was a very difficult game”

The Athletic Club de Bilbao coach, Marcelino García Toral, has been “satisfied” this Thursday by the victory (1-2) against UD Ibiza in the round of 32 of the Copa del Rey and has stressed that “it has been a very complicated game “.

“We knew about the discomfort that the match was going to bring us because the rival is a good Second B team, the data say that it is the best by far,” said the coach, who recalled that Ibiza scored “five goals” against Celta. from Vigo in this same field.

Added to this difficulty, he added, were the “synthetic field and the wind,” which “makes everything much more difficult,” he said.

Marcelino pointed out that “efficiency” prevailed over “everything else”, and that the most important thing was that they came to seek classification against a rival “very difficult and we succeeded”.

“We are very satisfied because defensively we are more solid and in attack we generate chances, some good, good approaches, but the truth is that they are not completely finished in the goal,” he said about the Bilbao team.

As for the goal disallowed against UD de Ibiza, he pointed out that, according to an image they showed him, “the position of the Ibiza player indicates that he is offside.”

Marcelino stressed that the team “knew how to overcome a result against” and that it conceded “few attacks” to UD Ibiza. “I stay with the work, with the effort and, with what else, with the result,” he remarked.

For his part, Unai Núñez, architect of the victory of the lions with a goal in the last minute, explained that the team “has gone from less to more.”

“We knew what we were up against, the team that is, which is having a very good season in its competition. We knew the playing field we were coming to and we had to adapt,” said Núñez.