Agirrezabala continued between the sticks at Athletic

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The suspense in the Athletic goal continued until just over an hour before the start of the Vallecas clash. Valverde, as was the case against Real last Sunday and Elfborg on Thursday, already has Unai Simón at his disposal. The red and white coach, who picked Agirrezabala in the derby and in the Europa League for the red and white international, repeated Real’s bet that day.

The winner of the Zamora Trophy from last season took place on Vallecano’s bench. A few months earlier, in the same scenario, he went to the booth with the aforementioned prize in his bag and was repeatedly covered by his teammates. However, yesterday, he had to watch the bulls from the sidelines.

Athletic’s last three league visits to Rayo’s ground have ended without the locals finding a goal. 0-1 in 2021-22 with Unai Simón between the sticks and Nico Serrano as scorer, 0-0 in 2022-23 with Agirrezabala as starter and 0-1 in 2023-24 with Alava goalkeeper at grass level until minute 62 and the Gipuzkoan playing from there to the end and Nico Williams as the gunner.

Yesterday, in just 13 minutes, the red and white lock exploded. Bad move from Paredes to the goalkeeper and stinger from Nteka right under Agirrezabala’s nose. Seeing is believing.

bad look

All indicated that something similar to what happened on the three previous occasions when they returned from a Europa League event would happen to Athletic. Lions football was less inviting. Neither is the rival’s way of competing.

The tireless De Marcos and the tenacious Nico William insisted, however, on helping Sancet and he, with two signature shots, rounded the score. Agirrezabala, who excelled once with 1-0 on the scoreboard, prevented the locals from overturning their lead after 1-2. Meanwhile, Unai Simón followed everyone from the bench.

Source: La Verdad

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