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There was a moment when Rubi, arms akimbo, lost her gaze in the empty stands of San Mamés and let the game go on for a few seconds without her attention. Absolutely, he surely guessed that the end of the film was near. He has been dancing on the wire for a long time, almost the whole season, and he knows that he can fall at any moment. Perhaps he will no longer be a Betis coach and he has undoubtedly accumulated merits for such an outcome (1-0). But, things as they are, luck has not blessed him during this gray stage in Seville.
Rubi was overcome with resignation after verifying that there was no way to scratch even a point against a tough Athletic and with a strong survival instinct. In the same play there was a phantom goal and a penalty issued by the VAR ... that Canales sent to the canvas that covers the lack of public in the south end of San Mamés. For everything else, a huge Unai Simón who gave Athletic the first victory after the resumption of the League.
Before the goalkeeper, there was another great protagonist. Many stories were written with the spur of Inigo Martinez . That of the first central goal with the Athletic shirt, two and a half years after his transfer from Real Sociedad; that of the eternal tenderness of this Betis that has seemed for too long what it is not; and that of a successful new staging of the premises, which had also been brought forward immediately in Ipurua three days earlier. It was then a penalty and thanks to a rehearsed foul, culminated with class by the international defense against green-white passivity.
The old demons for those of Rubi reappeared and the doubt arose of what he was going to do to Athletic, with an excessive tendency to withdraw when he went ahead on the scoreboard. However, against this glass Betis, shining at first sight but fragile in their football, the rojiblanco team played to throw baits and combine dominance phases with other containment phases to come out on the counterattack. Athletic had the best chances, with Córdoba as an offensive benchmark for the left wing, with the exception of a hand-to-hand fight by Fekir that Simón saved.
Green-white misfortune
Rubi's football was too predictable, with too many players who tend to occupy interior positions and look for the pass before the shot or even the overflow. It was a very comfortable scenario for an Athletic that on the restart was close to the second in a heads-up of Williams and in a header to the crossbar of Raúl García .
The Betis coach read the situation well and sought to change the game by giving access to Álex Moreno and Tello so that they could act as pure wingers and bite the Athletic side, until then very comfortable. Thus Betis managed to bottle a rival who began to lack breath too soon. They have been three games in a week, after many stoppages, and Garitano has solved them with little change in their lineups. At the Camp Nou, on Tuesday, massive rotations are expected and that is what God wants.
Betis had Athletic at their mercy for the entire final half hour, but did not find a way to take advantage of their overwhelming dominance to tie. When it was not bad luck or the terrible execution of the penalty by Canales , it was a huge Simon who protected the red and white advantage. He did not deserve to lose Betis, but perhaps that argument will no longer serve a Rubi who has run out of wildcards.
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