Roughness without prize between Athletic and Valencia

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Everything was placid in San Mamés, except football, rough as sandpaper.

Disgusting;

a game that gets on the nerves of the fans.

Valencia left with a loud whistle after biting off a goalless draw in a show that was not, because the visiting team did not want to and Athletic could not despite trying until the last breath.

ATHAthletic

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Unai Simón, Yeray, Íñigo Martínez, Yuri, De Marcos (Alex Petxarromán, min. 82), Vesga (Oier Zarraga, min. 80), Dani García (Unai Vencedor, min. 45), Nico Williams (Berenguer, min. 64 ), Muniain, Raúl García (Villalibre, min. 64) and Williams

VALValencia

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Mamardashvili, Gabriel Paulista (Hugo Guillamón, min. 47), Vazquez Alcalde, Omar Alderete, Foulquier, Thierry Correia, Moriba Kourouma (Uros Racic, min. 65), Carlos Soler (Jesús Santiago, min. 96), Mouctar Diakhaby, Maxi Gómez and Yunus Musah (Gonçalo Guedes, min. 65)

goals

Referee

Isidro Diaz de Mera Escuderos

Yellow cards Yeray (min. 7), Mouctar Diakhaby (min. 25), Moriba Kourouma (min. 52), Hugo Guillamón (min. 71), Williams (min. 76), De Marcos (min. 87) and Unai Simón (min. 98)

Red cards Hugo Guillamón (min. 97)

In Bilbao they do not give credit.

Spring Saturday afternoon game, at a good time, with Athletic, moreover, in a good position to attack Europe;

almost unheard of to play without lights, without fear of them going out, like against Atlético;

with a soft breeze running through the stands.

How to stay for a picnic on the lawn when we're done.

Ricardo Bochini also came out to receive his loyalty award, and something will rub off on the footballers, one might think.

But nothing hit them, and they all hit: a lot of pushing, a lot of obstruction, some unbalancing tap.

And Athletic tried to play with rhythm, but Valencia made them uncomfortable, stopped the game, and the people from Bilbao went into the rag, as has happened in other games against Bordalás' team.

Muniain was not allowed to stir;

the Williamses seemed tied to an invisible rope that did not loosen for a moment.

Yuri tried everything on the wing and nothing came of it, and to this, the visitors, comfortable, orderly and unhurried, playing with the anxiety that can appear from one moment to the next, with a solid midfield and an effective defensive line and permeable.

They were all isolated skirmishes, more disturbing in Mamardashvili's area than in Unai Simón's, but the youngest of the Williams lacked skill and his brother and Raúl García, precision.

There, in the area, Gabriel Paulista reigned imperial until he retired injured and left his place to Guillamón, another Bordalás soldier, who ended up expelled, although in the discount of the discount.

The second half started the same and ended worse for Athletic, with their footballers tense, although the referee, with good judgment, decided that each injury, and there were many, to a Valencia player, should be resolved with the departure of the assists and the footballer in the band.

The football disappeared almost completely, and only reappeared with a ride by Williams that the goalkeeper took from him and the touch of Athletic's rebuke in discount time.

But the score ended as it began.

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