ANDl Athletic took a reality bath. In a game in which the winner fell at the last minute due to acute gastroenteritis, the team had more trouble than ever, with more than one footballer out of place and with large gaps. Iñaki Williams was forceful. “We have lacked ambition. As we have left, we cannot leave. They have eaten us in the first minutes. San Mamés has to be a fort and has escaped. When things depend on us we do not finish solving them, which is something that has happened to us in other years. It’s complicated. It is a game to make us watch it and to wake up, “he said. Athletic, who this course he had only lost with Rayo, also in San Mamés, makes it clear that he crosses when he puts himself at a disadvantage on the scoreboard in his stadium.
The team crashed with Cádiz. Again. Until last season, the people of Cádiz had only won at La Catedral in the Cup and their last two league visits are counted by victory. Lions stumble when least expected. Making Athletic a reliable team is one of Marcelino’s goals. And the Asturian, who until now had made his team fly, is preparing for a break in selections full of doubts. The night chosen to continue creating illusion ended in a slap.
The fans went home scared. The defeat prevents the third consecutive triumphs in San Mamés for an Athletic that in 11 days had only lost one game. You already have the second. The lions will have to overcome spirit and conviction. The team lived in jerks. The little illusion of the second period was generated by the actions of Nico Williams, chosen by Marcelino to give the team rhythm after the break. The technician made more moves. Without arriving at game time, he delayed Sancet to introduce Raúl García as a partner of Iñaki Williams and finished with Serrano for the battered Muniain. Serrano tested Conan and received a standing ovation from the audience.
Morcillo also joined the changes … and in the short time he was in the field put on Marcelino’s nerves. Especially in the last play of the game, with a frontal foul in which instead of going to finish off he threw himself to the band in search of a pass that was impossible to give if he did not want the referee to whistle the end. Crazy
