Athletic Femenino closed the year 2024 on Sunday with an important stain on a remarkable record. The lions were eliminated for the first time from the Queen’s Cup by Cacereño of the First Federation, the second category of Spanish football. The Extremadurans took the lead through Lezcano, Jone Amezaga equalized the score with a penalty in the 25th minute and when everything indicated that the game was going to extra time, the goal from the Japanese Rana came in the th -94 minutes that gave quarter tickets to the locals. David Aznar At the end of the fight he recognized the justice of the result.
Getting out of the KO tournament was the biggest disappointment in a great year. The red and whites have played a total of 36 matches between the F League and the Queen’s Cup, 22 last season and 14 this season, with a very satisfactory balance of 21 wins, four draws and eleven losses. The Toledo coach’s team won 58% of the games it played, surprisingly a percentage almost identical to the men’s team led by Ernesto Valverde (57%).
The balance of the last campaign ended with 14 games won, two draws and six losses. The Bilbao team finished the League in fifth position and reached the semifinals of the Cup, where they fell at the hands of tough Barça, who won it all.
The red and white team has struggled more this season, especially when it comes to playing, but they have already caught a good wave with three consecutive wins in the regularity tournament against Madrid CFF, Levante Badalona and Sevilla to also be fifth with thirteen . contested games, just two points behind the European places marked by Atlético de Madrid and with just two games left to complete the first round. The balance from September to date is seven wins, two draws and five losses.
Aznar reviewed 2024 last week and described the year as outstanding. “We have far exceeded expectations. The players grew very quickly. We had a second round with the last team of the Champions League. At the beginning of this season, despite the difficult times, the team competed very well. “We will go where we want to be and from now on we will continue to grow,” he said before the Cup debacle.
Source: La Verdad
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