Alavés and Athletic draw goalless under the rain from Mendizorrotza

The Deportivo Alavés and the Athletic Club they did not go beyond the tie (0-0) In a duel in which they did not take risks or hardly generate chances in a very tactical duel, with two well-planted squads that overcame the downpour that raged in Mendizorrotza on the twentieth day of LaLiga Santander.

The duel began with an accident, with a muscle injury of Unai Victor in the early stages, which forced him to leave the pitch.

From there it was the Bilbao team that tried to propose more with elaborate attacks and looking for the speed of Iñaki Williams with long balls.

The locals, for their part, were raising lines as the minutes passed to try to squeeze their rival closer to the Alava domains Unai Simon.

The two teams hardly generated danger in the first 25 minutes of play in which Manu Garcia he marked differences in the center of the field with good ball conductions that at times upset the defense of a well-planted Athletic, who did not take risks.

The set pieces were the best resource of the men of Marcelino Garcia Toral, who could not overcome the pressure of the people from Vitoria.

The scoreboard of both technicians marked the passage of a contained first half, without fanfare and with the two teams fulfilling their match plan.

Miguel De la Fuente he warned with a head that he left to the right of Unai Simon, after a good play of Martin Aguirregabiria Y Joselu Mato, and the action albiazul was answered by Iñaki Williams with a ball that crashed into the side of the goal net from the babazorro keeper.

This play encouraged the visitors who linked several dangerous plays, although they did not finish finishing, in what was the best moment of the Bilbao at the edge of the break.

After the break, Alavés bottled Athletic in a phase of the match in which the best chance came, when Ruben Duarte in the 55th minute he recovered a ball at the start of the Biscayan team and tried to surprise a forward Unai Simon with a Vaseline that the visiting goalkeeper first touched and then crashed on the crossbar.

It was ten minutes of constant rained centers to the area from which the team of Marcelino.

However, the script hardly changed from the first half. Everything pointed to the fact that a spark from a footballer could end up unbalancing the balance and it was the rojiblancos who were close to doing so.

First through a recovery of Iker Muniain who failed to complete the Biscayan squad and then with a hard shot from Alex Berenguer that forced to stretch Fernando Pacheco placeholder image in the 71st minute to avoid the first visitor goal.

The good moment of the people from Bilbao was also well counteracted by the team of Jose Luis Mendilibar who was not satisfied with the tie and went for the match in an open final stretch in which the score was not moved.

Datasheet:

0 – Alavés: Pacheco, Martín, Lejeune, Miazga, Duarte; Manu García, Moya, Luis Rioja (Édgar Méndez, min. 65), Jason (Escalante, min. 40), Miguel (Pellistri, min. 85) and Joselu.

0 – Athletic Club: Unai Simón; De Marcos, Yeray, Íñigo Martínez, Balenziaga; Berenguer (Serrano, min. 83), Dani García (Vesga, min. 83), Vencedor (Zarraga, min. 4), Muniain, Sancet (Raúl García, min. 60), Iñaki Williams (Nico Williams, min. 60) .

Referee: Jaime Latre (Aragonese Committee). He cautioned locals Lejeune (min. 26) and Duarte (min. 61) with a yellow card.