Berenguer and Williams take Athletic out of their hole

Deep down, soccer is a very simple sport to play, especially when a team stops due to bad times.

The recipe for quieting the noise is as simple as winning a match convincingly.

Although it is as thunderous as the one

suffered

in recent weeks.

was disputed, but he insists on his traditional recipe and it comes out well.

was needed

to alleviate the lack of goal, but the team scores two, plus another annulled and a penalty corrected by the VAR.

seemed very expensive, but in his first match as a starter he made his debut with a goal.

suffers a scoring drought of months, but he solves it to crown a great performance.

And so, the noise dissipates and Athletic, for the first time in a long time, breathes relieved because the future is no longer so black.

And so, a deep crisis is parked on a Sunday noon, in front of a Levante that suffers his, since there are already three defeats in a row for

, without scoring a single goal.

In

he ran into Athletic with recharged energy, deep on the wings and again solid in defense.

With a really effective spiker, the result could have been even bigger in favor of Garitano's.

But this Athletic has what it has and knew how to make the most of it to achieve the second win of the season in their most convincing match since the competition began.

From the beginning, Athletic was seen with another verve, also benefiting from the opponent's style of play, which allowed them to find gaps on the wings.

on the right hurt the Levante defense, with the handicap that they ended up understanding each other.

And on the left, even Balenziaga reached the area from time to time.

In one of these,

(substitute for Pizarro Gómez, positive for Covid) pointed out a penalty from

, but after checking it on the monitor, he verified that the Aragonese side had touched the ball.

Athletic dominated the match, but they lacked quality to transform their interns on the wing into shots.

At the beginning of the second half, Raúl García headed a Williams cross to the crossbar, who shortly before the break could have forced Vezo's expulsion, who played it in a crash when he already had a yellow.

The goal that the can opened, however, was scored by Berenguer, in his debut as a starter.

In a hybrid between pass and clearance by

, he fought the ball with Postigo, found his way to the goal and beat Coke Vegas, the starter for the death of Aitor Fernández's father.

From then on,

felt very comfortable, despite the fact that minutes before he had shown some symptoms of fatigue.

Berenguer scored a second goal, but it was correctly annulled by a previous offside by Raúl García.

The sentence came ten minutes from the end, with an intermission by Morcillo's wing that Williams capitalized on at the far post, after a failed intervention by Vegas that allowed him to shine his good game.

The attacker had it again for 3-0, but on that occasion the Levante goalkeeper won the game in hand-to-hand.

An anecdote in a victory that Athletic desperately needed.

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