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Athletic has been surrounded by noise for weeks.

The team does not finish starting, advances by lurching, and the continuity of Gaizka Garitano is questioned day yes day no.

Individual errors, many and from many different parents, are weighing down a team that last season lived mainly on its defensive reliability.

Iñigo Martínez (Ondarroa, 1991) is almost the only one who maintains this course the regularity of the previous one, but that does not prevent him from making a self-criticism of the moment that Athletic lives before visiting Real Madrid this Tuesday.

What happens to them?

We need to link a couple of victories in a row to return to a positive dynamic and for that we need to finish the games.

The one on Saturday at Mestalla escapes us because of a small detail [Valencia tied at the end after a mistake by Simón] and it was a vital victory, seeing what comes to us now.

The point knew us very little, we need to finish, defend the results and not make those mistakes that are costing us so many points. Does the external noise around the figure of Garitano affect them? We know how football works and we try to stay away from All this.

We are all united and focused on getting out of the situation we are in as soon as possible, which is very complicated.

The following matches are going to be final for us and we assume it with naturalness and confidence. When he arrived at Athletic he said that "here it is not worth being in the middle of the table".

Are you still thinking about it? I said it and I keep it, clear.

There will be years that we do it badly and we stay in the middle of the table, but this team always has its mind set on getting into Europe at least.

In the last two years we have been very close to achieving it.

We always have options and we will continue to have them. Madrid is now in a good moment, but it has already accumulated several skips at home. It is still Madrid, you can expect the best and the worst.

They have a good streak and we have to come back.

We will go out with great enthusiasm and I think we will have our options, because when Madrid is very well they make mistakes.

We hope to take advantage of them to win the game or at least score. Do you think it benefits them to play in Valdebebas, without an audience? The Bernabéu is a great campaign, it is very nice to play there in front of thousands of fans.

We always want to play there, but now we have to play in another stadium and I think we will have more options than at the Bernabéu.

Without an audience, it is difficult for them too.

Now they are fine, but it is when they can be trusted and make some mistake than another. The football industry has to keep going, but do you think that beyond the economic aspect, football without an audience makes sense? Of course not.

The atmosphere that is generated on a field before, during and after matches is not comparable to anything, any player will tell you.

See full stadiums, what is generated around in the cities ... That is fundamental for this sport.

And it is being seen that it is not the same.

Football without people and without their emotion is not even the half. Beyond the emotional, how does the lack of public affect you when it comes to doing your job? There are times when people tell you that you have a rival nearby or of a similar circumstance.

And when it comes to coming back from games, the support of the fans is missed, we much more.

In those moments, it takes a toll on the rival to play in a packed San Mamés, there are more injuries than in other years.

Are footballers being pushed to the limit with this situation? Little is said about this issue and I think it is very important.

Measures are being taken that do not favor the footballer at all, with so many games in a row with little rest.

That topic should be given a spin, there are many squads that do not have so many players to keep changing.

He favors the greats, who are the ones who have plenty of staff to draw two different teams. What has this whole health crisis taught him? That you have to be in good times and bad times, that you have to reach out and help in as much as possible to the one who needs it most. You, the Athletic players, decided to make a donation to Public Health at the worst moment of the pandemic. For example.

It was something that came from our soul.

When it is necessary to help, it must be done, more we than we can.

We have an obligation to do so.

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