From centering to being centered, Athletic

Nico Fernández, in his debut in the Spanish League, achieved in just nine minutes what Athletic players were unable to do in more than 180 played in this League in San Mamés. The action of the Argentine left back, yes, was not intentional. Berenguer’s low, powerful center reserved for the Williams brothers was hard to take down. His intention, of course, was not to beat his goalkeeper, but he did.

The importance of a good pass. The statistics said before the start of the day that Valverde’s team was the team of the championship that made the most crosses in the rival area. Their quality, yes, is left to quantitative analysis only.

An own goal and another via VAR. An action that lives, on the fly, no value. The repetition of the photos, however, made it clear that Roco had committed a clear penalty on a Nico Williams who was called by more than one moments before “sucker” or something similar. Then, this same instrument was about to disqualify the youngest sibling from the footballing art because of a past action. It wouldn’t have been fair. What a great goal!

From the VOR room, Gumbau’s fall after contact with Dani García was not considered a penalty, and Muniain was invalidated for offside, by millimeters, by Berenguer. All this for the first time. No one was surprised, therefore, that the referee added seven minutes of regulation time before the break signal.

One goal in 270 minutes at home and eight in 180 away. Athletic is not normal. Even inside or outside. Valverde joked on Saturday in the Lezama press room that four 0-1s are better than one 0-4 (referring to the visit to Cádiz). The thing, seen what was seen in the hot afternoon yesterday in Alicante ground, worsened because the lions returned to put four in Elche, but received one. At this rate…