Yesterday in San Mamés was no ordinary game. belt The visit of Barça has raised great expectations in football Bilbao.
Beyond the more or less popular protests against the rival and chants that people do not want to hear when they focus on Athletic away from Botxo, the fight against the leader served to record the difference between a team that needs a lot of little to score a goal and another that needs a lot of arrivals to achieve it and when he succeeds they leave him without a prize for a previous action without any volition.
The images will say what they will, but in a lifetime of football, Iñaki Williams’ goal went up on the scoreboard without any protest. A tough mental and physical blow was dealt yesterday by a rojiblanco team that, to be honest, hasn’t started since returning from the competitive break for the World Cup in Qatar.
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Valverde used the experience to face the visit of Barça. Some of his changes, forced to a certain extent, thus came to reflect this. Balenziaga, for example, came to replace a Yuri who ended the match against Rayo the previous day with a serious physical problem.
Zumarraga’s side, who turned 35 at the end of February, has yet to debut as a starter this season. His last two and only appearances were with the game and as a substitute for Yuri. In the League against Girona away, a match played on November 4 last year, and in the Cup against Eldense, a match played on January 5.
Iñigo Martínez, for his part, reappeared in San Mamés five months later. The international centre-back, starter in the last two league matches for the lions (Osasuna at El Sadar in the Cup and Rayo in the Liga at Vallecas), has not set foot on the grass of the Bilbao stadium in an official match since October 30, 2022, when Leones beat Villarreal 1-0.
That day Raúl García was also the starter. Navarrese, with Sancet suspended, is Valverde’s preferred option to play behind Iñaki Williams. Muniain was surprised to return to sit on a bench. Navarres was felt coming out of the field. Like Yuri’s.
The Athletic captain also ended up being the involuntary protagonist of the clash due to a hand that whistled because it needed to be whistled. Modern football.
Source: La Verdad
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