Athletic's farewell to the fatal and disastrous 2020 was very much in line with its annual wandering throughout a League interrupted because of the forced stoppage due to the coronavirus pandemic. The cup career, it is true, was much more dignified and exciting. The nights lived against Barça and Granada will be engraved in the collective memory of a San Mamés that without his fans in the stands only scares and intimidates those who look like rojiblanco.
His rival in the postponed final of the KO tournament was, coincidentally, the last visitor last year at the Bilbao stadium. A decaffeinated derby at the level of the stands, with an absolute void and silence, and with a single double color at the football level. La Real, whether it hurt or not, was infinitely superior to Athletic. Someone has been wrong from beginning to end transmitting the idea to the lions that their thing is combinatorial football. Remiro He will still be laughing at his first meeting in Bilbao's fiefdom as a Primera goalkeeper.
No Athletic player was able to put him to the test. Some isolated lateral center and little else. Those who did not have the opportunity to see him in action during his time at Bilbao Athletic are still wondering how to Remiro. Amazing.
Yesterday was a meeting to have hit the table. Nothing is further from reality. If the doubts about the rojiblanco team and, above all, their coach hovered over the environment; far from clearing they have increased. To cry.
Tears, surely, were shed by the Real fans for the recent death of Gaztelu, a historic txuri urdin player whose son, Aranzabal, also left a deep mark on the Gipuzkoan club. The lions, by the way, wore a black armband as a sign of mourning as a tribute to the former rojiblanco manager Antonio
Muñoz. Notes of sadness in a sad end of the year as much as possible in terms of Athletic football. More wood.