Many criticisms will focus on these hours and the next ones in Unai Simón , whose mischief caused Iñigo Martínez to score the goal that gave Valladolid the final draw. And in part they will be right, because it was a mistake that the Athletic goalkeeper should not make. But reducing the result of San Mamés to that action would not be fair. Because Athletic had the victory in his hand, with Valladolid scared and without answers, and let him escape alive, giving him the option to take advantage of some isolated action. And that was precisely what Sergio González's team did, who very little managed to take a point from San Mamés and chain four consecutive days by adding. [1-1: Narration and statistics]

It had been a long break of selections for Athletic, especially in the mental section. The two previous defeats against Valencia and Celta had installed a layer of doubt about the Garitano project, whose apparent strength had been diluted by those two games of zero performance and poor football. He had to show another side the rojiblanco team in his return to the competition and in that mission he worked from the first minute, which the crowd thanked. Especially those who came from more than seven hours of assembly in the Euskalduna.

The mobility of Williams was the key to the excellent staging of Athletic. The striker came from having lived too isolated in the area in recent times, a scenario in which he can hardly add to the collective. On this occasion, he received the order of Garitano to look for the falls to bands to relocate the plants and open spaces for incorporation into the area of ​​the mediapunch line, yesterday with Córdoba accompanying the usual Muniain and Raúl García.

The proposal took effect, with five very clear arrivals in the area in the first 15 minutes before a Valladolid that did not provide enough to remove the multiple threats that Athletic posed, especially in centers and lateral fouls. The dynamic was cut only when a poor control of Yeray led to a hand of Ünal with Simon that the Alava goalkeeper solved brilliantly. An occasion that Valladolid served to take a little air, but not to avoid the outcome that had been announced from the first minute.

Because after half an hour of play, the Athletic goal came. If someone has never seen Williams play, the repetition of the goal would serve to explain in essence the virtues of the striker. Unai López, completing a great first half, threw the ball from far back towards the striker's career, which for speed and power ate both Olivas and Salisu with potatoes. Arrived in front of the goalkeeper, he had the cold blood to cut him, avoid Olivas's desperate help and finish off the goal with comfort.

The goal did justice with the merits of Athletic, but the rojiblanco team did not continue their good work. Once again, he backed down and allowed Valladolid to grow in the game. There was no clearer symptom than the entrance of Beñat through Córdoba , cementing the center of the field and cutting the wings of the team in attack. The difficulties - especially those of Ünal - to get close to the draw were substantial and that somewhat reassured Athletic. A calm that Simon's butter hands before a lateral center blew up. The gentle clearance of the goalkeeper went to Iñigo Martínez's shoulder, with no time to depart and prevent the ball from sneaking into his goal.

Muniain assumed command of the comeback attempt and was close to consummating it with a shot that Masip cleared almost with his nails . But the evil was already done and confirms the negative trend of Athletic, which already accumulates four days without winning.

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