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It is difficult to make things worse than Athletic in Granada and get such a great prize. Although in a semifinal, you know, the end justifies the means. And the end, in this case, is a Cup final and against Real Sociedad. Almost nothing. The derby of all time, after 111 years of waiting, will be held within a month and a half in Seville after Athletic survived himself and Granada without knowing very well how. What difference does it make. Classification, friend, as Caparrós left coined. [Granada 2 - Athletic 1: Narration and statistics]

Yuri's goal in the 81st minute, emerged almost by spontaneous generation, plunged a Granada into misery that was squeezed to the maximum to play the second final of its history, but it did not serve. Muniain's lonely goal in the first leg was the decisive final for Athletic to enter his fourth Cup final of the last 11 years. His match in Los Cármenes was horrifying, but the party was for the thousand fans displaced from Bilbao and the funeral for a Granada that nothing can be reproached for.

Well, something does. The Nasrid welcome to his rival consisted of a kick from Yangel Herrera to Muniain when just two or three seconds of the match had been played, still inside the center circle. Wanted or improvised, that hard fault predicted the intensity and aggressiveness that Diego Martínez's were going to impose during the initial minutes. Copying the drawing of three central Bilbao, as he did in the second part of the first leg, the Galician coach sought to be vertical by the bands, with Machís as the main stiletto on the left and Foulquier on the right. He was undoubtedly benefited by the slow coverage of San José, an emergency substitute yesterday for the sanctioned Dani García, and Vesga. Conservatism has these things.

Without football in the home ball, he sent Granada in the game until an inexplicable header from Víctor Díaz to his own goal made the script spin. Rui Silva saved the fire friend, but the Nasrid team seemed to enter the tremble and allowed two good chances to San José and Raúl García , thanks to the speed of Yuri and Williams . It was a passing moment, but Granada, cut the pace, was no longer able to recover the effusivity of the initial minutes. He maintained the almost absolute dominance of the ball, but could not intimidate the populated defense of a self-limited Athletic to trace kicks that rarely reached the last third of the field.

Yuri's career

The first half ended with a goal sung by Herrera in a corner that Williams took under sticks and the second woke up with the goal that matched the tie. Machís focused on the area from the left and Carlos Fernández , relief of the sanctioned Soldier , anticipated Núñez to head to a corner of the goal that Simón could not reach. Germán, ten minutes later, was about to score the second in another corner, exhibiting Athletic's problems by standing and standing still, despite his accumulation of towers.

It was then that Garitano finally understood that he had to change something, whatever. So he sacrificed Capa, undid the defense of five men, sent Yeray to the right back and entered Córdoba as an end for the other band. But the thing still looked the same, scary for their interests, as before. Perhaps Athletic got even worse that I no longer knew how to attack or defend. And the just punishment came to him 14 minutes from the end, again overlooked, again before Núñez, now with a stopped ball, in a corner headed by Germán that sent Granada to the final of Seville.

Garitano then burned his last bullet. Aduriz to the field and that was what God wanted. And it was more or less like that, because what happened was a miracle. Vesga, lousy for 80 minutes, leaked a pass to Yuri's career and the side shot Rui Silva . No one believed what had just happened. Athletic, suddenly, was again qualified for the final and that made him unbeatable, no matter how much Granada attacked relentlessly, crying how far Seville was and how close it had been.

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