Euskaraz irakurri: Bere atean sartutako bi golek Athleticen porrota eragin dute Gironaren aurka (2-3)

He Athletic has suffered a painful defeat against Girona (2-3) in San Mamés in a crash in which the goals from Yuri Berchiche and Raúl García have not been able to counteract two goals scored by the Bilbao team on their own goal.

Summary of the Athletic – Girona match

The game has started in the worst way for the locals. As soon as the ball began to roll, in minute 4, Girona already opened the scoring with the help of Alex Garcia. From the right flank Tsyhankov has easily dribbled to yuri berchiche to then assist his teammate, who has placed the ball at the far post, away from the hands of unai simon (0-1).

The early blow has served for Athletic to wake up and put one more gear in search of the comeback. The ‘lions’ have tried to take advantage of the speed of Inaki Williams and look for centers to the area, putting the rival defense in trouble. Even so, the most dangerous occasions continued to be for Girona.

vesga He tried to get the ball played from the area, but his pass was intercepted by Castellanos, who would have scored the second if the Basque goalkeeper had not intervened, sending him to a corner.

And the second goal for the visitors came from a corner. Castellanos finished off the corner kick with a header, but, with bad luck, the ball collided with From Marcos, putting the ball into his own goal (0-2).

The corner was once again the protagonist in the goal scored by Iñaki Williams, but the goal was disallowed for offside.

In the 35th minute the prize for Athletic arrived. A good play on the left wing ended with a pass behind muniain to yuri for the full-back to cross a low ball from afar and score the first for his team (1-2).

But before going to rest, bad luck has struck again with Athletic. A foul from Girona has ended up combing it slightly Yeray and the ball has hit vesgawho has marked at own door (1-3).

The second half was an I want and I can not of a team from Bilbao that was not capable of taking the pulse of the stake, although the goal by Raúl Garcíawho took advantage of the mess that Valery got Gazzaniga into, opened a siege in the discount that could bear fruit in a new goal that meant the tie (23).

That third rojiblanco goal did not arrive, and Athletic will travel this week to Pamplona, ​​to face Osasuna in the Cup semifinal first leglicking the many wounds suffered on a black Sunday.

Data sheet

2-Athletic: Unai Simón (Agirrezabala, m.46); De Marcos (Capa, m.78), Yeray (Lekue, m.68), Paredes, Yuri; Vesga, Sancet (Morcillo m.78), Muniain; Iñaki Williams, Berenguer and Guruzeta (Raúl García, m.46).

3 – Girona: Gazzaniga; Arnau, Santi Bueno, Juanpe, Javi Hernández (Miguel Gutiérrez, m.61); Romeu, Aleix Garcia; Tsygankov (Reinier, m.80), Borja García (Valery, m.71), Riquelme (Iván Martín, m.71); and Castellanos (Stuani, m.80).

Goals: 0-1, m.4: Aleix García. 0-2, m.19: De Marcos, own goal. 1-2, m.35: Yuri. 1-3, m.46+: Vesga, own goal. 2-3, m.89: Raúl García.

Referee: Isidro de Mera Escuderos (Castilla-La Mancha Committee). He showed a yellow card to the locals De Marcos (m.14), Yeray (m.44) and the coach Ernesto Valverde (m.78), and to the visitors Castellanos (m.16), Santi Bueno (m.28), Arnau (m.36) and Oriol Romeu (m.72).

Nico Williams, out at the last minute with a sprained knee

The international player of Athletic Club Nico Williams He has been out at the last minute due to an injury in San Mamés.

The little Williams “suffered a sprain of the medial lateral ligament of his right knee in training yesterday”, as reported by the club.

Thus, Nico remains “pending evolution” with a view to the next matches, the first one this Wednesday at El Sadar in the Copa del Rey semifinal first leg against Osasuna.

Source: Eitb

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