There are goals that are not scored, but felt.

The trembling of

Ter Stegen's

squad

ran through all the hearts of Bilbao in an instant, stimulated as if an adrenaline syringe had been stuck in them.

Williams' cut before such a launch, warped, precious and lethal, was the anticipation of a full ecstasy, which

Villalibre

had already raided

, a runaway buffalo, saving a final that already seemed lost.

And although the night was dark and lonely in the streets of Botxo, a damn pandemic, the days from today will be sunny and radiant, because Athletic returns to feel what it always felt, it is once again champion and concludes that everything as believes still has the same meaning it always had.

This is the same team that on New Year's Eve felt humiliated by their inability to even compete in San Mamés against a Real that with very little had more than enough.

The same one that 14 days ago liquidated the Garitano era to seek greater splendor from the hand of

Marcelino

, a name banned and repudiated in Bilbao until recently.

Today Athletic is super-champion for the third time in its history after defeating Real Madrid and Barcelona in four days - that's all - and the Asturian is their prophet.

And this year he still awaits the postponed Cup final against Real.

That's how capricious and volatile football is.

This Athletic had been suffering from an unbearable altitude sickness for months.

As soon as they scored a goal that showed him the precipice of defeat, he was automatically paralyzed.

It was that inability to strike back at the chin that brought him to a gray reality.

But with Marcelino, no matter how much he has barely counted 10 days in office, life seems to have changed.

From Marcos, 12 years later

Last night it took him two minutes to respond to

Griezmann's

initial peck

, Zubieta's heart.

That it was thanks to an unchecking of

Óscar de Marcos

, who already scored 12 years ago in a Super Cup, in his second of his 407 games with Athletic, did not surprise anyone.

Williams being

served

with a scoop pass over the rear no longer seemed so normal.

Welcome to that facet of the speedy striker -and the one that came later in extra time-, Marcelino will think with reason, who soon lost the displeasure of the initial goal.

A bottle of water stamped on the ground paid for it.

Everything was returning to the starting box and that undoubtedly benefited Athletic, who observed with satisfaction that everything was going according to what the Asturian coach had planned on his board.

Perhaps something was found that he did not expect, that Barça was much less proactive in the pressure than usual, but the rojiblancos players immediately accommodated themselves to that unforeseen variation.

It was all a mental game: risk and fail if you want, because I'm not going to do it.

Not even Messi, beyond the action of the goal, brought spark to the final.

In part, because he did not fully arrive at the game, after having missed the semifinal and being doubtful until the very morning of yesterday.

His frustration turned into an embarrassing attack on Villalibre in the last minute of extra time.

For her, after a review in the VAR he saw his first red card after 753 games defending the Barcelona shirt.

Much earlier, in the 77th minute, Griezmann lowered the rojiblanco souffle again and luck already seemed cast.

The Athletic of two weeks ago would not have endured a new slap of such caliber.

This not only did it but forced the extension thanks to Villalibre.

And in it came the ecstasy of Williams, unrecognizable for good, with that wonderful goal that will be remembered for generations.

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