Athletic is paid to the 'English average'

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Athletic season begins to be a matter of pure mathematics. In home games, he has race, plays well and wins. Outside San Mamés, it is quite flat, plays by regulating and draws. It is not at all a bad life plan for the rojiblanco team, which at a rate of two points per day, which a few years ago used to be called the English average, continues in the noble zone of the classification and retains its undefeated after six days of competition He is no longer a leader, now Atlético is after his victory in Palma, but that, an anecdote after all, is certainly the least. [Narration and statistics: 1-1]

At the home of a Leganés who does not come out of poor and who is still a colista with only two points, Athletic repeated in broad strokes what he had already done in Getafe and Mallorca. It was a solid team in defense but very limited in attack, who lived in a stationary ball and died in the same way. Raúl García , captain by surprise until Muniain left after the break, ahead of the rojiblanco penalty set and two minutes later Óscar Rodríguez , the best of the pickles in the game - and surely so far this season -, placed the tie to one definitive one of direct lack, launch in which Herrerín was not well stopped.

Because yes, Herrerín played, the most outstanding rotation of the five that Garitano made to refresh the team. Surprising change, since Simón arrived as a provisional zamora of the competition with a single goal embedded in four games. They also had their chance Núñez, Beñat, Córdoba and Larrazabal , who in his first meeting as a starter was not very drinkable in the rojiblanco attack in the first minutes of a duel as indigestible as expected and as predicted the precedents of other seasons.

Meager football

The son of the mythical left side, in short, contributed the little spark and impudence that Athletic exhibited in a first half in which he went from less to nothing and that ended with Herrerín saving the ballot before a whiplash of En-Nesyri , the man who decanted the duel of the previous season with a prodigious head shot ... towards his own goal. It was a nondescript Athletic, slightly dominant at the beginning and tasteless the rest of the time, from a couple of wrong passes that allowed kickbacks that Leganés, so short of football or more than his rival, was not able to take advantage of.

Garitano obviously did not like what he saw, so he decided to enter Muniain through Cordoba after the break. Athletic did not grow, rather the opposite, but at the time of the game, in the most elaborate play he made all afternoon, he found a penalty by Bustinza on Larrazabal . Raúl García converted a goal that gave Athletic a peace of mind that barely lasted two minutes, less than the six that had been in advantage in Getafe on the second day.

Beñat , who completed a poor game, committed a foul on the edge of his area and Oscar Rodriguez converted it with a shot over the barrier. It was a good pitch, but it seemed that Herrerín - impeccable until then and also later - could do more, since it was placed almost in the center of the goal. Curiously, just after the best minutes of Athletic arrived - there were few, yes - in which the Garcia, Raul and Dani had good chances.

The rojiblanco team also claimed a penalty by Awaziem , although the referee understood after reviewing the play on the monitor that the Nigerian central received a previous foul from Iñigo Martínez. The match ended without much more history, because both teams seemed satisfied with the draw. Something logical in the case of an Athletic that remains undefeated, but hardly understandable in the case of Leganés, who does not finish raising his head.

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