Athletic pays dearly for the start of the game and loses to Cádiz (0-1)

The Athletic Club has not been able to overcome a goal by Salvi Sánchez at the start of the match (minute 6), and has lost all three points against Cádiz on San Mamés.

The 0-1 final has punished a bad game of Athletic, which suffers its second defeat of the season, both in ‘La Catedral’, and is left without the prize of entering European positions to pass the league break in peace.

Salvi has beaten Unai Simon with a cross shot that has been poisoned to the international goal after playing in Iñigo Lekue.

With this result, Cádiz has ended a losing streak of seven games without winning, while Athletic has ended an opposite of five games without losing.

For minute 6, Cádiz has already advanced on the scoreboard. Although he had already warned before with two arrivals from Perea, the first at half a minute of play, and a corner.

A penetration to the area of Sancet It seemed to advance the 1-1, but the young Navarrese was between precarious and indecisive and in the end they stole the ball. It was not the only time it happened.

With Athletic trying to take over the game, the second great visitor chance came after a serious error by Nuñez in minute 32. Perea stole the ball and stood alone against a Simón who proved his international status.

And he did it again five minutes later. On that occasion, a shot from Lozano that he stopped in two halves.

A direct free kick to goal in a kind of semi-corner, which went high to Muniain, gave way to rest.

The Biscayan team tried to put one more gear into their game with Nico Williams on the field, but, although the arrivals on the area followed one another, they were run over and dull in the boots of the Williams, Vesga and Sancet.

The closest thing to a local occasion was Muniain’s header from a corner kick that came out very focused on Nuñez.

A pumped shot by Iñaki Williams that almost gave Ledesma a scare and some last attempts by the youthful Nico Serrano and Balenziaga were also unlucky and the match ended with the same victory from Cadiz last season in San Mamés (0-1).

Datasheet:

0 – Athletic: Unai Simón; Lekue, Nuñez, Yeray, Balenziaga; Berenguer (Nico Williams, m.46), Vesga (Raúl García, m.57), Dani García, Muniain (Serrano, m.76); Sancet (Morcillo, m.89) and Iñaki Williams.

1 – Cádiz: Ledesma; Iza Carcelén (Akapo, m.70), Haroyan, Juan Cala, Espino; Salvi Sánchez (Chapela, m.46), Jonsson (Negredo, m.84), Alex Fernández, Perea (Arzamendia, m.63); Nephew and Lozano (Fali, m.70).

Goals: 0-1, m.6: Salvi Sánchez.

Referee: Santiago Jaime Latre (Aragonese Committee). He showed a yellow card to the locals Yeray (m.26), Morcillo, while warming up on the band (m.68), and Nico Williams, and to the visitor Haroyan (m.85).