Athletic have no choice but to win where they haven’t in almost two decades and wait until Osasuna do the same against Girona at El Sadar. From there, many combinations open up that could drag Valverde’s team to the eleventh position in the table. The consequences of the defeat in the field of Madrid are more than this time just the result.
Mr.Being second in the standings after not beating bottom club Elche a week before San Mamés felt like a pipe dream. Not impossible, the following. In soccer, however, things became more difficult. Bayern Munich, for example, won the Bundesliga two Saturdays ago with everything going in Dortmund’s favor.
OrA German example to consider, no doubt, but that can be considered the exception that proves the rule. The truth is that Athletic have failed more than necessary recently. The lions had to measure themselves both at home and away against direct rivals for the European fight and were unable to emerge victorious on either occasion. Villarreal and Osasuna knocked them out away from Bilbao; Betis and even Sevilla in San Mamés.
R.It is very difficult to believe the chances of the rojiblanco team to win at the home of Real Madrid. And the worst of the case, for insisting not to leave it, is that it may not all end there; because even victory at the Bernabéu does not guarantee a seventh-place finish. Osasuna already left Athletic in the Cup final and now they have the power to do it in the League too. Like Bayern, not many.
Source: La Verdad
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