Liga Santander: Celta tied against an Athletic fought with the goal | LaLiga Santander 2019

Ral Garca, on penalty, balanced the initial goal of Rafinha, in a clash in which Garitano finished 22 times (1-1).

• 1-1 in San Mams.
  

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Athletic shot 22 times, tried 52 centers in the area and took 13 corner kicks – which were exactly 13 more than Celta – but failed to win. And not only that, but for many minutes, until Fran Beltrn put his hand where he should not and caused a penalty, he ran the serious risk of adding the second defeat of the season in San Mams. Athletic cursed his tremendous flaw in the face of goalkeeper in a game in which he was much better than Celtic, although he was not able to reflect it on the scoreboard. He just missed the goal that is the only thing that is worth in this sport. Because playing well is scoring more goals than your rival, all other things are hollow and populist speeches of false and pretended moral superiority. Birds and flowers.

Athletic have long since eradicated their ambitions to conquer that Edn apcrifo and doing well, however much they chained four draws and a defeat in their last five league games. His lack of goal in these days has prevented him from taking advantage of the mistakes of his direct rivals to take advantage of the fight for Europe, but to think Garitano – and rightly so – that keeping this line will allow him to grow in the coming weeks.

Not seeing the future with the same optimism Scar Garca, because he knows that the point of San Mams will not be repeated many times if he is not able to raise a different script. To collect fruits you have to sow and before Athletic he did not do it, no matter how much he achieved a draw. The Catalan technician has work to avoid the descent at the end of the season. The incorporation of Murillo, of course, will help him in that mission, as he demonstrated in Bilbao.

Five in 12 minutes

Returning to his traditional 4-2-3-1 after the bet of the three centrals that achieved two draws at the Bernabu and the Pizjun, Athletic was in the first minutes of the duel what is customary to be in San Mams. I left the locker room like an airplane, ready to eat the grass, and that was reflected on five clear occasions in the first 12 minutes. But, of course, it was that none of them ended up in goal. In fact, Rubn did not intervene in any of them except in which it almost becomes a goal of the Murillo debutante, after a bad start of the goalkeeper to cut a center of Williams, the most active of the rojiblancos from the right wing.

Overcome the suffocation of those initial minutes of harassment and demolition, Celta finally appeared at the meeting to find the pause he so urgently needed. Aspas, always l, assumed the mission in the first person, going down to receive the ball and making it circulate to stop the mpetu of Athletic. In attack, however, he only had a couple of occasions, one of Rafinha that Herrern – entitled by the mumps of Unai Simn – stopped easily and another that Santi Mina failed incomprehensibly in the second suit, when he only had to push it. He compensated the header that, minutes before, Muniain had sent Rubn Blanco's gloves – good reflexes from his – from the small area.

Rafinha from the front

The second half began as the first had done, with Athletic dump and Celtic shrinking water and grabbing Murillo and Rubn. In the middle of the gale, after four clear occasions of the rojiblancos, the Galicians saw the light thanks to a shot of Rafinha from the frontal. The ball, finished in semi-finished, was attached to the stick of the goalkeeper of Herrern and broke the match in the light. No one in San Mams could believe it, but Celta had taken the lead and prepared to place a large bus to keep its unexpected advantage.

From ah to the end, Athletic was put in gale mode to hang balls to the area again and again and put together shots that rarely found goalkeeper. The respite was found by Garitano in a penalty by Beltrn, cutting a center of Muniain. Ral Garca was responsible for transforming it when there was a quarter of an hour left. The draw did not alter the script of a game monopolized by Athletic in the final stretch. Villalibre and Ral Garca had the victory in their boots at the discount, but by then it was already clear that it was not a good day for the attackers.