Athletic Club
31st round
EITB MEDIA
Published: 04/14/2024 20:46 (UTC+2) Last updated: 04/14/2024 22:19 (UTC+2)
Ernesto Valverde’s team took the lead in the 66th minute with a great goal from Oihan Sancet, against an opponent who played the entire second half with ten men, and Parejo, in stoppage time, tied the game at 1-1. The result leaves Athletic four points behind fourth place.
Read in Basque: A penalty in the 95th minute took two points away from Athletic, opponent Vila-real (1-1)
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Summary of the Athletic-Villarreal match (1-1)
The tie has left a bitter taste for the Basque team, which, after winning the Cup in Seville and enjoying a historic celebration in Bizkaia on Thursday, had three very important points in its hand in the fight for the Champions League. Villarreal’s goal has caused great controversy in San Mamés, given that it came as a result of a highly disputed penalty: The referee, Cuadra Fernández, punished a handball by Yuri, in an action in which the ball touched the arm of the Zarautz full-back after first hitting his thigh.
The preludes to the match have been marked by tribute to the Copa del Rey championswho have taken to the field between the corridor formed by the Villarreal players and the squad that won the Cup in 1984. The temperature in San Mamés has reached the maximum when Iker Muniain and Óscar de Marcos have raised the trophy and offered it to the red and white fans, who have practically filled the Bilbao stadium.
With Mikel Vesga, replacing Iñigo Ruiz de Galarreta, who was suspended, accompanying Beñat Prados in midfield, Yuri Berchiche took the first shot on goal of the match, from outside the area. In the eighth minute, yes, there was a play in which Villarreal had a great opportunity to take the lead, in a penalty missed by Gerard Moreno; Prados unintentionally stepped on Álex Baena inside the area, and the referee signaled the maximum penalty, but Moreno shot the post. The ball reached Villarreal’s own forward, who sent it into the net, but the goal was not worth it, because no other player had touched the ball.
Dani Vivian then prevented the score from 0-1, with a shot from Baena, and the match then entered a phase of equality. The game had a rhythm, and both teams were looking for speed, stealing to be able to run. In the 41st minute, a good play by Athletic on the right ended with a low cross from De Marcos that Guruzeta, in a very good position, was unable to finish. At half-time, like this, 0-0, with everything to decide; Villarreal had been closer to the goal, but Athletic was also playing strongly, and nothing had been said yet.
The second half started with a play that could be important: grocery storewho had already been shown a yellow card in the first half, lightly stepped on Prados, in a moment of play, and the referee, Cuadra Fernández, has expelled himshowing him the second card.
Ander Herrera replaced Mikel Vesga, shortly before Sancet took a good shot from the edge of the area. In the 66th minute, in a spectacular play, Athletic took the lead; Ander Herrera centered at the far post, for Guruzeta, who, with a header, left behind, a Jungle Sancetwho arrived with force and finished, without dropping the ball, close to the post. A beautiful goal.
Dani García and Álex Berenguer have left for Nico Williams and Mikel Vesga. In the final stretch, Athletic, despite their numerical superiority, seemed to be showing fatigue, and Villarreal pushed in search of an equalizer. has found it in the 95th minute, in extra time, in a penalty converted by Dani Parejo; that penalty has been very protested in San Mamésgiven that what has been signaled, after analyzing it in the VAR, is hand of Yuri, in a shot in which it seemed that the ball had touched the arm of the Guipuzcoan player after a rebound.
Datasheet
1 – Athletic: Unai Simon; De Marks, Vivian, Walls, Yuri; Meadows (Dani Garcia, m. 70), Vesga (Blacksmith, m. 55); Iñaki Williams, Sancet (Munian, 76), Nico Williams (Berenguer, 70); and Guruzeta (Villalibre, m. 76).
1 – Villarreal: Jorgensen; Femenía, Albiol, Yerson Mosquera, Alberto Moreno (Guedes, d. 68); Traoré (Ilias, d. 68), Parejo, Comesaña, Alex Baena; Gerard (Pedraza, m. 55) and Sorloth.
Goals: 1-0, m. 66: Sancet. 1-1, m. 95: Even, penalty.
Referee: Guillermo Cuadra Fernández (Balearic Committee). He sent off Comesaña, in the 46th minute, for a double warning (m. 34; m. 46), and Sergio García, from the Villarreal coaching staff. In addition, he has shown a yellow card to Prados (m. 10), Iñaki Williams (m. 31) and Yuri (m. 94), for Athletic, and Albiol (m. 34), at Villarreal.
Incidences: match corresponding to the 31st day of LaLiga EA Sports, played in an almost full San Mamés, with 50,061 spectators.
