Athletic will return to Pucela on Sunday. A set in which Gaizka Garitano He has signed as coach of the rojiblanco team his league victory (1-4) with the highest number of goals scored. Solitaire poker. It happened last March, equaling the best difference of the deriotarra coach also obtained in the last 2019-20 season, when they defeated Espanyol (3-0). Only in eight other games have the lions been able to prevail with a difference of at least two goals with the current coach in charge of the bench.
That triumph with more forceful director with Garitano the front was manufactured on March 8, 2020 in the Nuevo Zorrilla. The last match played by the lions before the competitive break due to the coronavirus pandemic. Three days before, they had achieved with agonizing suffering in Granada, falling 2-1, the ticket for the Cup final that is still pending staging because of Covid-19 and the initial desire of the clubs to take place with public.
In that clash with the Blanquivioletas, it was Unai lopez the one who opened fire very early, in minute 4 of the game, with a direct free kick with which he beat Masip and that, in addition, it supposed the baptism as a gunner in First of the midfielder. The 0-2 was the work of Raul Garcia, in minute 24, culminating an action that began with the opening of Sancet to the left side for a Cordova that was vindicating itself in those days. The winger put a good cross in the area and the Navarrese finished off with an impeccable header, winning Salisu in the air battle.
The store Sandro they cut distances (1-2) in minute 77 and the rojiblancos sentenced in the closing stages of the game. Williams established the 1-3, in the 88th minute, taking advantage of a bad transfer of Salisu in a long ball. The Bilbao striker was ahead of the goalkeeper Masip and a couple of defenses, Pedro Porro and Kiko Olivas, They tried to put out that fire with no luck. And the final 1-4 carried the rubric of Cordova, with the right, hunting a bad clearance of Salisu at the edge of the area after a center of Dani Garcia from the right flank. Diana with a cross shot.
After taking charge of the rojiblanco team in December 2018, in that campaign his broadest triumphs were achieved Garitano against Sevilla (2-0), with a double of Williams, Atlético de Madrid (2-0), with goals from Williams and Kodro, and Celta (3-1), with a double of Raul Garcia, one of his many from penalties, and another success of Williams. They managed to make three impacts in another two games, but winning by the minimum against Levante (3-2) and Rayo Vallecano (3-2).
In the 2019-20 season, already complete for Derio, apart from the aforementioned victory against Valladolid, the lions won four times by two goals against Real Sociedad (2-0), Alavés (2-0 ), Granada (2-0) and Mallorca (3-1). And with Espanyol, in October, in the antecedent of the widest triumph, although making one less target and without fitting in. It was against Espanyol (3-0), thanks to a double from Muniain, in the first quarter of an hour of play, and a goal from the parakeet's own door Victor Gomez.
In the current 2020-21 league year, the Garitano They have also managed to open a gap of two goals, (2-0) with Levante. Although, the red and white squad with that of Derio, where it has sealed its most forceful victories has been in the Cup. It debuted in the 2018-19 season with a 0-4 against Huesca, with doublets of Aduriz and Williams. The lions had already won 4-0 in the first leg of that round of 16, although with Eduardo Berizzo still in front. And in the last edition of the KO tournament, they defeated (0-3) Intercity, with hits of Ibai, Beñat and Kodro, this from a penalty, and to Sestao River (0-4), with two notches of Yuri and two others from Villalibre.