“We have added a new achievement. 8 finals for the goal. Let’s continue… Let’s go! This is the message of Iñigo Martínez on his twitter account after Athletic’s 2-1 win against Almería in the Mediterranean. That league match played on April 22 was the last for Ondarrutarra’s central defender in a rojiblanca shirt.
In the eight finals determined by the international defender, the lions got only one (2-0) against Celta in San Mamés and drew two (1-1 in their visits to Mallorca and Real Madrid ). The European goal of Valverde and his troops has been damaged in the poor baggage of five points from the last 24 contested. Sevilla, Betis, Villarreal, Osasuna and Osasuna, five teams that will participate in the continental competition next season (Sevilla in the Champions League after winning the Europa League), are direct rivals of the rojiblancos for European positions and the five doubled the knee to a Bilbao team that also lost to Yeray and endured a final competitive pull with Vivian and Paredes in the backbone.
“I went to a great club, the goal is always to be at the top. Here it is not worth staying in the middle of the table “. Iñigo Martínez himself made these statements in his presentation on January 30, 2018 as an Athletic footballer. Ondarrutarra is no longer part of the rojiblanca discipline without having played any official match in European competition with the Bilbao team.Meanwhile, Real, his home club, has subscribed to the Europa League and next season will play more they the Champions League.
The arrival of this left-footed central defender in Lezama prompted Laporte’s departure from Manchester City. Guardiola’s have paid 65 million of the termination clause of Athletic’s left-handed central defender and the Bilbao club, along with Josu Urrutia, have done the same with 32 million of the ondarrutarra clause at Real. That’s why Iñigo Martínez became the most expensive signing in the centenary history of the ibaigane entity. Now he will leave as a free agent and not a euro will enter Bilbao’s coffers for his departure. Jon Uriarte and his directive, yes, they are ‘removing’ one of the highest chips in Valverde’s team. The third, apparently.
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The debut as a lion of the former Athletic player took place in Montilivi. Ziganda, manager of that rojiblanco team from the 2017-18 season, formed a defense of five with Lekue and rookie Andoni López on the wings and Yeray, Nuñez and Iñigo himself in the middle.
The crossbar began to cross from that day on the path of Iñigo Martínez at Athletic. With the score 1-0, the left-footed centre-back sent the ball over the crossbar with a kick from the Chilean kick. Stuani finished off the lions a few minutes later.
The same thing would happen to him a few months later at Sánchez Pizjuán. Garitano’s team need a point on the final day to go to Europe. Caparrós’ Sevilla took the lead and in the 90th minute Ondarrutarra hit the crossbar and the locals made it 2-0 on the counter. He also had no special luck in the Cup final against Real.
A Merino cross for Portu in the 58th minute ended in a penalty for Iñigo Martínez who brought down the royalist striker. The referee of that game ordered a penalty and an ejection for the first time on the lion. Minutes later, after a VAR review, Iglesias Villanueva corrected his initial decision, upholding the maximum penalty and changing the red to yellow for the rojiblanco center-back. Oyarzabal scored the txuri urdin winning goal from the deadly spot.
The former Athletic player will not forget that incident so easily. In fact, some time later, he resigned from playing in the Euro Cup with Spain because he was “not 100%” either physically or mentally.
Source: La Verdad
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