Athletic, from derby to derby and I shoot because it’s my turn

You don’t have to make any drama, it just disappears at this point, but the difficulty of the calendar forces you to be vigilant. The derby against rojillos is marked in red because, a priori, the trip to Donosti and the visit to Real Madrid seem more complicated. It is also true that, usually, when the lions play without a net, all or nothing, they tend to come out on top. Obviously I didn’t count the finals because they were very different matches.

Valverde introduced five novelties to the 11: Simón, De Marcos, Iñaki Williams, Guruzeta and Sancet. The team was better in the first half and did enough to take the lead, which could have changed the game, but unfortunately it didn’t.

There are several techniques, although they only blow three times between the sticks. The clearest, that of Guruzeta taken by Aitor Fernández with a great display of reflections. The rest are formers who lack clarity in the last meters, either filtering the ball or shooting. An exercise in constant frustration.

And in that chapter you have to look at the players rather than the coach. Valverde gave them the tools to arrive many times with the advantage and his players did not have the pause, expertise or clarity to score. And it’s not about stoking the forwards because you can’t ask for more from them in terms of attitude and work.

You just have to see how many balls they steal across the field. To Caesar what is Caesar’s. Excellent in that section, bad in the sense.

Corner kicks out

Osasuna re-armed in the second half and suffered less. The entrances of Muniain, Berenguer, Raúl García and Villalibre, almost without time, did not improve what was on the green. However, fourteen corners in favor and only one against made it clear that Athletic had come a long way. Lack of expertise from the corners.

They insist on short or closed corners. Only one was open and Yeray played it. With so much practice behind closed doors, they should put more emphasis on that part of the game that gets so many points. It seems strange that a team like Athletic haven’t scored from a corner at this point in the season with everything they’ve been building.

In ‘The emotion of cod’ we chose Yeray as the best man of the match in the ‘Onena-Jose Iragorri Trophy’. The centre-back drained Rojillo’s attackers and the ball came out well. Unai Simón should be noted, who ultimately saved a point in a one-on-one with Manu Sánchez. Zarraga signed a good game and Nico Williams also shone. The possibility of the arrival of Iñigo Ruiz de Galarreta may have forced Zarraga to push. The Galaxy continues without renewing in Mallorca and its possible arrival in July, at zero cost, is gaining more and more strength.