Greater emotion, impossible. With penalties, starting from round the back on the scoreboard and even with the option of preliminary classification for the rival team, suffering until the end, more… It cannot be any other way when it comes to lion and KO tournament. This time, of course, luck and success smiled on the red and white.
The Cup happens to be a championship that has historically not been good for women’s Athletics. It is enough to examine the history of the lions in this tournament to confirm such a fact. Although the Bilbao team’s resume includes five League titles, the ceiling at cup level is the dispute in two finals, both lost.
Determination of the 2020-21 season, in which it did not even participate due to not achieving preliminary classification through the League; The balance in the Athletic Cup until yesterday was 20 participations. In the pair of finals mentioned, against Espanyol and Barça, the red and white team has four semi-finals, thirteen quarter-finals and one round of 16. Barça, with four eliminations, tops the list of executioners of lions followed by Levante with three; Rayo Vallecano, Espanyol, Atlético de Madrid and Valencia with two; and Estudiantes, Sabadell, EDF Logroño, Sevilla and Real Madrid with one each.
Through the path of suffering
UD Tenerife will soon join this relationship. The Canary Islands got it in the penalty shootout, but they didn’t get it right when they had to take the final shot and the Athletic women, with their goalkeeper Nanclares in the figure, claimed victory and took a step towards their fifth semi-final. That, in any case, would be another story.
Source: La Verdad
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