Athletic will hold the typical recovery session this morning for those who played yesterday against Valencia, but in the afternoon all eyes will be on La Cerámica. The rojiblancos yearn for a Villarreal defeat on their pitch against Sevilla in the clash that will begin at a quarter past four in the afternoon. The team of Marcellin Yesterday he climbed to the seventh position that allows him to play the Conference League thanks to the best goal average with the groguets after the 2-1 win in San Mamés and the 1-1 in Castellón. They both have 52 points.
The truth is that things could have gone much better yesterday afternoon in San Mamés. The team of Marcellin had clear chances to beat mamardashvilibut the success of the Georgian goalkeeper and the lack of local aim prevented the three points from staying in Bilbao, something that would have done justice to the merits of both teams.
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Valencia took the prize they were looking for, the tie. Everything he did was aimed at that, trying to play as little as possible and preventing the rojiblancos from playing smoothly. The Ché team looked like itself. He remembered the one from the first leg of the Cup semifinal, but when that was at stake, nothing more and nothing less than the pass to the final of La Cartuja. those of Bordalás They played very little yesterday in San Mamés, taking into account that they are located in the nobody’s zone of the classification and they no longer have anything to do to achieve a European place. At most they had the pride of preventing Athletic from winning in front of their fans. They succeeded, but their image fell to the ground again no matter how much their coach wants to put hot cloths.
Those from Mestalla lost as much time as possible as they did on February 10. So much so that the referee Diaz de Mera He had to extend the first half for five more minutes and the second for seven.
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Even so, they managed to take a point not because of their insistence on stopping the game but because of the lack of a goal by the lions. If Williams succeeds in any of the occasions he had or Villalibre’s header hits the crossbar, he would now be talking about all the ‘dirty’ work of the visitors having come to nothing.
In any case, that is history. The important thing is that Athletic is still alive in the European fight, although today a defeat by Villarreal would be wonderful.
