From Valladolid to Valladolid. Since Pucelano’s team visited San Mamés in this Liga until now, Valverde’s team has been in a tailspin. Tomorrow, this time in Zorrilla, the lions have a chance to continue their flight. Otherwise, the goal of Europe through the regularity tournament will be more complicated.
A 3-0 defeat for the rojiblancos against Pacheta’s team in San Mamés marked a turning point in the trajectory of the rojiblancos in the so-called regularity tournament. The competitive break forced by the World Cup in Qatar has returned an Athletic in serious trouble to win their league commitments. Athletic closed their clash against Valladolid in the first round in fourth place in the table and visit Zorrilla eleven days later in ninth position and relegated.
The lack of goals will punish Valverde’s team. The football shown by the people of Bilbao in a good part of their matches in the League was not consistent with the results obtained. The lions, in other words, deserve more than what they get in the grass.
One of the big problems of the current Athletic is its lack of goals. The numbers speak for themselves. Among the eleven league games that separate Valladolid’s visit to San Mamés from tomorrow’s Zorrilla, the rojiblancos have scored a total of nine goals. His average, therefore, is less than a goal per game.
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The problem is exacerbated by affecting the final score of these matches separating the clashes against the pucelanos. Athletic, a fact that must be remembered, passed eleven days without being able to beat the rival team or, what is the same, they concentrated their nine goals on four promises.
Valverde’s men scored a goal against Real in Anoeta in a derby that ended in a 3-1 local victory, they beat Cádiz in San Mamés by a resounding 4-1, they won the lowest on their visit in Mestalla by winning 1 -2 and they got another pair of goals at home against Girona, although they only served to reverse the defeat against the Catalans by 2-3.
Valverde’s men, therefore, were left without seeing the goal after the break due to the celebration of the World Team Championship against Betis (0-0) in Villamarín, Osasuna in San Mamés (0-0), Real Madrid also in their own half (0-2), against Celta in Balaídos (1-0) and Atlético de Madrid in Metropolitano (1-0), against Rayo de Iraola in Vallecas (0-0) and, finally, with Barça on the last day of the match at the rojiblanco stadium itself (0-1).
Athletic, in other words, have accumulated just three points out of a total of 21 points at stake in the post-world league stretch where they have not been able to beat the opposing team. Although this is a problem to consider, it is also worth noting that in two of the four games after the event in Qatar in which he scored, the goals scored were not used to score (Anoeta and Girona at home).
In the international box of the lions, as far as the League is concerned, there were a total of 33 goals scored, so the lions scored 24 before the competition, at the end of the fourteenth day and 9 in the remaining eleven
Source: La Verdad
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