Narration: This is how we live the game
First Classification
When the game ended, the Levante and Athletic players greeted each other and said "see you soon."
In six days, same team and same scene, but incomparable prize.
While this Friday only three points were distributed, which were two because the thing ended in a draw, next Thursday what will be at stake is a ticket for the final of the Copa del Rey.
And if everything were to end then as in this league match, the extension would be mandatory, because after the 1-1 cupbearer in San Mamés came the 1-1 league in the Ciutat.
It was a paradoxical draw, since perhaps Athletic thinks that on the field it deserved something more, as it was more courageous and offensive than its rival.
But, at the same time, Levante left angry because
Raúl García
placed the equalizer thanks to a penalty that the granota, with enough reason, put into question.
The referee pointed this out and the VAR did not deny him, because it is not his role to evaluate a play in which it is not clear whether there is contact or not.
In actions like the one carried out by
Vukcevic
and
Berenguer,
the referee's criteria prevail.
If he had said there was nothing, they would not have corrected him from above either.
It will be more or less liked, it will be more or less fair, but that is how the invention works.
Much earlier, after the first hour, Levante had gone ahead thanks to another penalty.
This one, unlike the later one, admitted no doubt.
Winner repeated the sin of youth with a reckless pass,
De Frutos
set up the race towards
Simón
and
Núñez
measured badly when trying to stop him: he did not touch the ball and yes to the player.
Roger Martí
did not miss from eleven meters, giving Levante an advantage that he did not expect, since Athletic had been the dominating team in the opening minutes.
A more defensive Levante
Sheltered in a 5-4-1, more defensive than usual,
Paco López's team
closed the way of the goal to a purposeful and intense Athletic but lacking precision in the final meters.
Despite their greater dominance,
Marcelino's team
had only gotten close to the goal in two plays in the first 10 minutes, one of them annulled by an offside just after
Muniain
hit the post.
The game continued to advance without much history until eight minutes after the restart came the action that marked the game.
Berenguer stole
Coke's
wallet
and then Vukcevic sought clearance, in an action that the referee considered a penalty.
Replays suggest that there was actually no contact, but it is difficult to say with complete certainty that there was not, so the VAR gave the go-ahead to
Díaz de Mera Escuderos
.
Raúl García, with the usual poise, beat
Aitor Fernández
.
From then on, both coaches began to think about Thursday's Cup match.
Marcelino
, who had already reserved
Yeray
,
De Marcos
and
Yuri
from the beginning
, took Muniain and Berenguer, his most active attackers, from the field.
Paco López, for his part, did the same with Coke,
Morales
and, at the end, with De Frutos and Roger.
Both De Frutos himself and
Iñigo Martínez
and
Núñez
had occasions to tip the balance, but neither succeeded.
They took the opportunity to take the measure facing the game that really matters to them and each one took a point home.
A tie that takes them away from Europe, but that is now secondary.
According to the criteria of The Trust Project
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