Alavés turns on all Athletic alarms

Rodrigo Ely

solved the derby out of nowhere with a subtle comb.

And nowhere is good, at least in the short term, if it serves to add a victory, the first of the course, as happened to Alavés.

For Athletic, on the other hand, nothingness is the prolongation of a dangerous trend that should call into question the continuity of Gaizka Garitano at the head of the San Mamés bench.

The coach is not entirely to blame for Athletic's bad start to the season, but neither does he seem to have the capacity to get the team out of the quagmire.

From his insistence always, despite the blows of reality, in the same plan it is possible to deduce that he considers that he is the most suitable to achieve results.

And that's even worse.

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The best indication of the invalidity of Athletic football is that

, Alava goalkeeper, only had to make one intervention throughout the game and it was in the 95th minute, on the penultimate play before the final whistle.

Everything that happened until then was a new exercise of impotence for the rojiblanco team, unable to hurt an Alavés as practical as ever and to which Lucas Pérez put one more gear after the break.

Garitano even turned to Álex Berenguer, who had signed his contract 24 hours before, but neither could the Navarrese winger improve the team.

Normal after just a training session with his teammates, of course.

The present is black and the future does not look much better for Athletic.

His calendar was benevolent at the beginning of the season, with three clashes against opponents from the bottom of the table after the debut against Granada immersed in the European previews.

Well, the rojiblanco team has lost to the Andalusians, a Cádiz that finished with nine and this Sunday against Alavés.

, taking advantage of the only good football minutes (no more than 30) of this tortuous start to the season.

Insufficient for a team that should be required to be, at least, in the middle of the table.

The game this Sunday was a cruelty for any spectator.

In the entire first half, the closest thing to an occasion was a shot from Raúl García to the side of the net.

The second half was not much better, but at least

put some judgment on Alavés football, which grew timidly in the game.

It was precisely the Galician who bounced the lateral foul that ended with Rodrigo Ely's goal with a header.

From then on, there were 20 minutes left in which Athletic gave free rein to its offensive impotence.

The rojiblanco club has a much more serious problem than it seemed just a week ago.

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