Athletic is showing in the final stretch of the League that it is not going to let go as happened on other occasions when it did not have to fight. The professionalism of the lions is above contenders for the title.
It caught my attention to see how some listeners dropped before the Pizjuan game that they would not suffer too much if Athletic lost because that way there would be options for Sevilla to win the League and snatch it away from Atlético, Real Madrid or Barca. One can understand the little affection that exists in Bizkaia towards these three clubs, but the roiiblanca entity must be above the interests of third parties.
Each one has to defend their own, as Sevilla did in the first year of Garitano. A draw served the lions to reach Europe and they ended up beating them on their own merits. Soccer is like that.
The victory against the Andalusian team is a spirited shot for this final stretch of the season in which that chimerical European option reappears. With 4 rounds to go, cutting 6 points would be almost a miracle when two consecutive victories have not yet been obtained in the entire League. Hopefully they have left the regularity for the final txanpa, but I would not bet on it as the classification is.
Of Monday's triumph, it should be noted that he came after a string of casualties. Many of them considered heavyweights, such as Muniain, Yuri, Dani
Garcia, Iñigo
Martinez, who could not act due to a contusion on one shoulder, Raul
Garcia, who only played twelve minutes for a blow to the calf, Cap, operated. Quality victory in a cursed field.
The result will not prevent me from recognizing that Sevilla put more on the table to take the three points and sonly its ineffectiveness and the figure of Unai Simon they deprived the team of Lopetegui of a triumph that would have allowed them to continue in the fight for the title. The Murgia goalkeeper needed a game like this after an irregular season, in which he failed more than we were used to in the magical year of his debut in the First Division.
The 1 held the team during the match and the 9 finished it off in the last minute of the crash, with a vertiginous counterattack masterfully led by Sancet
, who knew how to deliver the ball to Williams at the exact moment to leave him alone in front of the goalkeeper. Great counterattack, but we must not forget that Sevilla went all out in search of victory and forgot about surveillance in the last minutes.
The cons is a fundamental weapon in the teams of Marcelino and more when you have players like the Williams, Black pudding, Villalibre or Sancet. They must improve a lot in that aspect because they have wasted many options throughout the season due to bad decisions. On Monday he did come out and defined the ‘Pantera’ as a killer, who scored his sixth ‘cod’ in the league.
The best medicine for a striker who had not scored since Carranza, three months ago, and who recently claimed not to feel at his best physically or mentally. Sure, dialing helps you recover, as well as having minutes with your brother again Nico
. Marcelino continues with his preseason casting and the little Williams seems to have a position this summer.