The solidity of Athletic surpasses Valencia to advance to the semifinals (1-3)

Euskaraz irakurri: Athleticen sendotasunak Valentzia gainditu du finalerdietara igarotzeko (1-3)

The Athletic Club will play again for the fourth consecutive year in the semifinals of the Copa del Rey after beating Valencia 1-3team that last edition deprived him of reaching the final.

Both teams came out with a lot of precautions, with few ideas in the offensive work and focusing on the defense.

But the match changed with the first goal of the match. A bad ball release from Diakhaby led to Athletic’s recovery in the upper zone and a good header from Inaki Williams was hunted by muniain to mark the first (0-1).

After the goal, nerves surfaced in Valencia. However, in an isolated action, diakhabyin offensive tasks, a great play was marked with a self-pass in the area and his cross to the far post ended up introducing it Of Marcos in own door trying to avoid Samu Lino’s shot (1-1).

Valencia barely enjoyed the tie, since just a couple of minutes later Athletic was ahead again, after a great offensive action by the Basque team in the Valencian area between Berenger and the partnership of the Williams brothers, in which Iñaki gave Nico for him to mark the 1-2 in the last minute of the first act.

After the restart, Athletic was not satisfied with the result and looked for the third.

Gattuso tried to shake his team with a triple change, but not for those. His team did not contribute anything in attack and Athletic found themselves with a penalty, in which the VAR warned of a clear kick from Cenk to Nico Williams, who vesga became the 1-3in the absence of a quarter of an hour, which left the tie sentenced.

Data sheet

1 – Valencia: Mamardashvili; Foulquier, Diakhaby (Cenk, m.46), Cömert, Gayà; Guillamón (Marcos André, m.75), Musah (Almeida, m.57)), Ilaix Moriba; Lino, Castillejo (Fran Pérez, m.57) and Cavani (Hugo Duro, m.57).

2 – Athletic Club: Aguirrezabala; From Marcos, Vivian, Yeray, Yuri; Herrera (Dani García, m.79), Vesga; Nico Williams (Raúl García, m.93), Muniaín (Sancet, m.79), Berenguer; Inaki Williams.

goals: 0-1, m.35: Muniain. 1-1, m.43: De Marcos, own goal. 1-2, m.45: Nico Williams. 1-2, m.74: Vesga, penalty.

Referee: Carlos Del Cerro Grande (C. Madrid). He admonished Diakhaby, Moriba and Cömert for Valencia, and Vivian, Sancet and Aguirrezabala for Athletic.