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After a fast and even first half, an error by Carlos Soler in midfield, when the ball came out, penalized Valencia in San Mamés.
The speed of the Williams and Munian's handling of the game undid Gattuso's squad in the second half, who physically no longer responded and did not exploit all the lateral free kicks he had.
This time, Soler, his sniper, was not fine.
Valencia, without a goal at the start of the championship, did not shoot between the three posts until the last play of the game in discount time, but Marcos André's shot crashed into the post with Gattuso kneeling in his technical area cursing luck in that action.
ATHAthletic
1
Unai Simón, Yeray, Daniel Vivian, Yuri, De Marcos, Nico Williams (Capa, min. 91), Berenguer (Oier Zarraga, min. 63), Vesga, O. Sancet (Unai Vencedor, min. 72), Muniain (Raúl García, min. 72) and Williams (Jon Morcillo, min. 91)
VALValencia
0
Mamardashvili, Thierry Correia (Foulquier, min. 74), Gabriel Paulista, Vazquez Alcalde (Lato, min. 61), Mouctar Diakhaby, Carlos Soler, Yunus Musah (Nico González, min. 61), Hugo Guillamón (Marcos André, min. 74), Samuel Lino, Hugo Duro (Maxi Gómez, min. 16) and Samu Castillejo
Goals
1-0 min.
41: Berenguer.
Referee
César Soto Grado
Yellow cards Daniel Vivian (min. 11), Yunus Musah (min. 22), Muniain (min. 67), Mouctar Diakhaby (min. 73), Unai Simón (min. 78), Yuri (min. 85) and Yeray ( minute 87)
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Video of the goals of Athletic-Valencia
The black and white captain's blunder came before the withdrawal to the locker room.
The youth squad played a horizontal pass over an Atletico rival that Nico Williams intercepted with a header.
The youngest of the Williams left for Vesga, who leaked a pass over Berenguer's breaking uncheck and the 7th shot adjusting his shot to the right post of Mamardashvili's goal.
Paulista, with his hands behind his back, did not make it to court.
The Georgian giant, who in the third minute of the game blocked a shot at goal by Berenguer himself as if it were a handball goal in what seemed like the first goal of the game, came to touch the ball.
It is not the first time that Gattuso's new Valencia, still under construction, has made this type of error when the ball is released, as they were common in pre-season friendlies.
Until the goal, the two teams rivaled each other in offensive display, peeking into the areas with the Williams assisting Álex Berenguer and Yunus, Thierry or Jesús Vázquez feeding the virtuous Samu Castillejo, who was wrong in choosing the shot.
On one side, Jesús Vázquez, 19 years old, challenged Nico Williams, 20 years old, who had trouble stopping in defense in one of the game's duels.
The black and white winger returned everything he suffered in defense to Athletic when he projected himself in attack.
So it was De Marcos who couldn't beat Vázquez.
Nico, a shot, exhausted the young side of the bat and then made Toni Lato suffer first and then Foulquier when he changed wings.
In the 80th minute, the VAR annulled a goal from the little Williams to a pass from his older brother for offside.
Muniain, honored by his club on the occasion of his 500 games with the lion's shirt, managed the rojiblanco eleven.
Playing on the inside in Ernesto Valverde's idea of play, unlike what happened with Marcelino, where he acted on the outside, the captain, better over the years, participates more in the game, is differential and makes his teammates play .
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