• The match, live, that's how we live it

To explain the Athletic match in Mendizorroza , it may be enough to say that his goal came thanks to a lucky mistake. And that the two marked by Alavés arrived in a penalty and a distant indirect free, two football actions in which the active collaboration of the opposing defense is essential for them to be successful. This is the depressing reality that the rojiblanco team lives that, outside the purple of the Copa del Rey , crawls through the League without indications that the immediate future will be better. Add four consecutive defeats in the domestic championship and a total of 10 days without knowing the victory. Europe, a dozen points, is already a chimera and Gaizka Garitano a figure that wobbles.

Perhaps he did not deserve to lose the rojiblanco team, because although his merits were scarce, so were those of Alavés. But defeat was the punishment he found in the face of absolute rachaneria and the unusual satisfaction with which his coach watched the match from the bench. Despite his bad streak since the Alavés did not generate danger, he made no changes until the 75th minute. And in the last one, five of the end, he chose to remove Williams from the field to get Larrazabal , a band player No minutes in the league for more than two months. The technician chose to passively contemplate the advent of the final whistle and along the way he met Ely's goal in the discount that snatched that point with which he seemed so happy.

Happiness broke out in Mendizorroza for an Alavés who simply had to wait, with little trouble, for his chance to come and that with victory he already leaves the descent to eight points. An unexpected end to a duel that had begun crooked for those of Asier Garitano. After a quarter of an hour, Athletic played in short a frontal foul, whose last recipient was Vesga who waited in the front of the area. The Alavés topped the air with the fortune of finding behind him Raul Garcia , whose left-hander slipped past the stick. It was Navarro's first goal, penalties on the sidelines, since August.

Beyond a good header from Joselu , Athletic seemed to have controlled the game, in a first half more dynamic than expected due to the physiognomy of both teams. It happened, however, that Yeray decided to make the matter spicy by committing an absurd penalty on Aleix Vidal that Lucas Pérez transformed into one. The duel became pestoso thereafter, with Athletic ruling the ball but without having the capacity to generate danger. The closest thing was a slight grip of Ximo Navarro to the Muniain shirt that Mateu Lahoz did not deserve to be worthy of a penalty.

Athletic shouted for more ambition, but his coach stopped her with his inaction. Vesga watched life go by, as usual, without contributing in attack or defense. Muniain, in turn, cried out for a partner in the core that allowed him to disregard the construction of the game and get closer to danger zones. Unai López wanted to jump into the field without asking, knowing that everyone would agree with his decision. But nothing. The draw was a good harvest for his coach until he ran out of it. Ely anticipated the entire defense in a frontal foul dumped in the discount and everything went to the badge for Athletic.

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