Athletic’s fourth worst season at home in the League of three wins

Athletic closed a rather difficult season at home on Sunday with a defeat against Elche. Ernesto recognized this himself Valverde at the end of the match, still in shock of the goal scored by Lucas Boye in the 92nd minute that deprived his team of adding a tie that would have lifted him to seventh place alone after Osasuna’s defeat at Getafe’s field. “We had good games in San Mamés, but we didn’t get results. This is what you live for, hit and not hit by the opposite side. The baggage of points at home is not good. If they are normal numbers, more we’re good, higher,” he said.

The gasteiztarra recognized only one tangible reality. His team added 27 points at home, 47% of the 57 places at stake. These are not numbers in line with the European objective set from the beginning. This is one of the team’s shortcomings that has hindered its progress in the standings. So this is Bilbao’s fourth worst mark in the League of three for victory. Only three have had more negative records since the current measure was established in the 1995-96 season: the second of the black biennium (2006-07), when the first ones were directed by sarriugarte and then through mane they closed the soccer year with 22 units in 19 commitments. The second worst was 2001-02 (25) and the third was 2017-18 (26). There are two other campaigns with the same numbers as the current ones: 2005-06 and 2012-13.

Balance as local

The balance is eight wins (Valencia, Rayo, Almería, Villarreal, Valladolid, Cádiz, Real Sociedad and Celta), three draws (Mallorca, Osasuna and Getafe) and eight defeats (Espanyol, Atlético, Real Madrid, Girona, Barça, Sevilla, Betis and Elche). Athletic added the same points to their field as Cádiz, Getafe and Valladolid, although the Pucelanos still have a game in Zorrilla, which they will play on Sunday against Getafe in a life-and-death duel to avoid defeat in the category . There are only four worse teams in the First Division, Sevilla (26), Celta (24), Espanyol (18) and Elche (14), the latter two having already been relegated to the SmartBank League.

There is another fact that indicates the difficulty of the lions to make San Mamés difficult to desecrate. They remained scoreless in ten of the nineteen commitments. The last was on Sunday against the Elche team, when they had up to 27 shots, 8 of them on target, to counter a great performance by Edgar Badía, undoubtedly the best of his team. The lions had 64% possession and took 19 corners. Two shots on the opposing goal were enough for Elche to get the win.