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In the summer of 2018, Eduardo Berizzo fell in love with Oihan Sancet . The young man had just turned 18, was shining with the youth from Bilbao and had come to rule with Spain at the Mediterranean Games, while the Argentine coach was recently landed at Athletic Club . It was a crush. The 'Toto' called Sancet to the ranks without having debuted with the subsidiary, played the preseason and was preparing for a year training with the first team and playing the Second Division B with the subsidiary.

It was not so.

In September 2018, in the second game of the season in Segunda División B, one of Lezama's great pearls , he suffered a rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament and the internal meniscus of his left knee . A catastrophic injury for someone who was 18 years old.

His rehabilitation was extraordinary and in March 2019, just half a year later, he was back on the field with Bilbao Athletic. He had met the deadlines as few injured do and returned to almost the same level that he had shown when Berizzo had him. The 'Toto' had been fired, but Gaizka Garitano continued to trust him and after being a fixture for the subsidiary in the final stretch of the season, he debuted with the majors in the first game of this course, in San Mamés and before the Barcelona.

The confinement caught him being a starter against Valladolid in March, and his work during the quarantine gave him a place in the starting eleven against Barça at the Camp Nou , where he played a sensational game that convinced Garitano to give him wings against Mallorca . Today, Oihan Sancet, 20 years old, only needed twenty minutes to score his first goal in the Santander League and relax the lion's path to victory.

It was a quiet victory in a day of embarrassment and against a desolate Mallorca after Lago Junior's penalty on Raúl García at the quarter of an hour of play. The third that the attacker commits this season. A record that will not help the fight for the permanence of his team. The Ivorian, lane in San Mamés in the alignment with three centrals of his team, did not see how Raúl García crossed ahead after a Muniain cross and stumbled over him, giving the maximum penalty to the locals. García, soft in the middle, beat Reina. "It has given him a little touch of nothing," protested the goalkeeper to the referee.

The penalty fell like a slab on Mallorca, who had lost three of the four games after confinement and who observes salvation at six points, with one more match than his rivals. Only Kubo emitted some danger against one of the best defenses of the championship.

The 2-0, a fine low shot by Sancet, dug the visiting grave and brought the Bilbao fans to the gates of Europe . The young man, formerly of the Osasuna youth academy , from which he left when he was 15 years old, may have put one of Mallorca's feet in the Second Division. "It has been a pride to be able to help with a goal, it has been many years of work ", acknowledged Sancet. Vicente Moreno's team tried to react in the second half and found a prize in a penalty converted by Budimir, but he was far from truly believing it and having the weapons to get the game around. Villalibre, against, sentenced with 3-1.

The victory leaves Athletic two points behind Real Sociedad and three points behind Villarreal , sixth place, both with one game less. A fight in which the lions did not see themselves fighting but in which, with the crisis they are experiencing in Donosti and the poor results of Getafe , they will still have something to say.

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