Athletic were condemned to fight for seventh place. The defeat suffered on Thursday in San Mamés against Betis left the lions five points behind the sixth place occupied by the Verdiblancos. In these circumstances and with only five games remaining, the most realistic goal is to qualify in seventh place in the Liga, which would allow them to play in the Conference League next season after Real Madrid’s Cup success final. The 2-1 victory achieved for the whites against Osasuna at La Cartuja in Seville set up a new European square.
For this, everything indicates that the team needs to improve the numbers obtained with Valverde on the San Mamés bench in the last five days that will determine if the goal set at the beginning of the season is met in a public presentation of the board, coaching staff and players. . The lions have averaged 6.8 points in the six previous campaigns with the Gasteiz player at the helm. In the first (2003-04) they added five to finish in fifth position and in the second 4 to finish ninth and earn a place in the Intertoto that the team led by José Luis Mendilibar, currently the new coach, will play in the following. year. from Seville.
Txingurri returned to Bilbao in the 2013-14 campaign to have a season with a final fourth place after adding 8 points in the last five days with two wins, as many draws and only one loss. The following year, they achieved the best balance of the Valverde era with 9 points to finish seventh. They added 8 again in 2015-16, a course they finished fifth, and 7 in 2016-17. The final seventh place allowed them to play in the Europa League as Barça won the final of the tournament by KOing Alavés (3-1).
The required average over the last ten seasons to finish sixth is nearly 57 points, specifically 56.9. The most expensive was in 2016-17, when Athletic achieved exactly 63 to finish in that position, and the cheapest was 2015-16. So Sevilla only need 52. Villarreal took that place from the lions with 59 last year and also stayed in the same position last year with one less. The rojiblancos are also seventh in 14-15 with 55.
The 0-1 defeat suffered on Thursday in San Mamés put the people from Bilbao in eighth place with the same 47 points as Girona but with a particular average lost after the 2-1 against Montilivi and the 2- 3 against Bilbao. So you might need 10 more to get to that number.
The group of Michael He arrived launched in the final stage of the championship with three consecutive victories against Real Madrid (4-2), Sevilla (0-2) and Mallorca (2-1). Behind the rojiblancos is Rayo de Andoni Iraola, which also managed to keep the pulse in the second round, and Osasuna and Sevilla are tenth and eleventh respectively. The rojillos came from defeat in the Cup final but competing against the team in La Cartuja and the people from Seville gave an important rush because Zaldibar’s coach came to their bench, although they have another more nice goal, to qualify for the final of the Europa League. The final obstacle is Juventus in the ‘semis’, with the first leg in Italy and the return to Sánchez Pizjuán.
At the moment, it seems that these five teams will play for the last place in the continent in the last five days, considering that the fifth is occupied by Villarreal (54) and the sixth is held by Manuel Pellegrini (52) has gone far enough
Source: La Verdad
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