The never ending tale, by Iñaki Ugalde

Bad image offered by Athletic last Friday at the Ciutat de València. This time neither Nuñez nor Vesga were at the grass level to be able to blame them for the new mess. The main clubs are now aimed at the top four: Berenguer, Muniain, Raúl García and Iñaki Williams. It is time to bet, of course, on the youngest. But that’s today because tomorrow, if there is a stumble against Granada with the ‘cubs’ at stake, they will turn the tables again.

Al sometime it will be time to stop focusing on specific individuals and influence the collective aspect of an Athletic capable of the best and the worst from one day to the next. The big problem, for repeating it again that it does not remain, still does not lie with the tenant of the bench on duty. It is about something deeper.

Lhe reality is stubborn and is imposed little by little. For many other Primera teams, it would be enough to have the defensive gear of the Bilbao team, a real containment wall, to take the three points from any field. Athletic lacks a goal or, in other words, the type of players who only realize that they are on the pitch when they appear to beat the rival goals.

OOther coaches who have been on the Bilbao bench since the decline of Aduriz said the same or similar to what Marcelino now argues. Goals are loves and Athletic of a few years to this part does not intimidate at the level of the filmmaker. To beat Levante it was enough to score a goal, but …