It came out. As if it were a magical appearance, the Navarrese footballer appeared in the grass in the 66th minute, because Valverde and had announced that he was not for too many minutes and his presence was fresh water in the desert for his team, and the fatality, of course, for the Alavés, that life is complicated with the results of the day.
1
One Simón, Vivian Dani, Berchiche, Marcos, Alvarez, Alvaro, Angel (Guruszeta, 54). Jaurizezar, Peio Canales
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Antonio Sivera, Moussa Diarra, Manu Sánchez (Nahuel Tenaglia, Min. 71), Santiago Mouriño, Facundo Garcés, Ander Guevara, Antonio Blanco (Carlos Martín, Min. 76), Carlos Vicente, Carles Aleñá (Carlos Benavídez, Min. 86), Jon Guridi (Pau Cabanes, Min. 86) and Toni Martínez (Asier Villalibre, Min. 71)
Goals
1-0 min. 70: Manu Sánchez
Referee JOSÉ LUIS MUNUERA MORERO
Yellow cards
Álvaro Djaló (Min. 32), Ander Guevara (Min. 93)
As if the alignment had been composed of Alfonso Guerra, “this team is not going to know the mother who gave birth to him,” he began to play against Deportivo Alavés with an unpublished and improvised attack front. Without a trace of the usual headlines, except Maroan, he appeared with Olabarrieta, Canales and Djaló, who add up to a few minutes in the League. The absences impose changes, also the European wear on Thursday.
Sancet sat on the sidewalk, but he wasn’t there to play 90 minutes, so Valverde did what he could half a field forward. In Alavés there wasn’t either. Coudet resigned, in principle, to the forcefulness of the Conquense striker, a habitual hammer of rival defenses.
With that panorama, much brilliance was not predicted in the attacker game of both teams. The Alavés ended in the first minute in a dried action, in which Guevara finished off very close and Unai Simón flaunted reflexes. After that scare the Vitorian team wrinkled in its field, because Athletic, although without gunpowder, pushed as if it had it.
From time to time the local parish was encouraged, or protested loudly in its disputes by land and air, and in a few minutes it came to excite itself with some dangerous approaches such as a center of Olabarrieta that was poisoning until it forced Sivera to intervene, or a precise combination between Yuri and Djaló that ended with a pass back from the defense that did not find a leg that did not find him. Already in the last minutes, the Bilbao team chained a couple of occasions, more for insistence than by inspiration, the best came out of the jurgence boot, which Sivera rejected with his fists.
But they were drops in the ocean, nothing significant. The offensive production did not correspond to the domain in the field. The second part remained the same. The rojiblancos benefits were improved somewhat with the entrance of Unai Gómez and Guruzeta, but there was not the Athletic to launch rockets. Until in the 66th minute everything changed. Sancet replaced the young Canales and the game took another dimension. No dribbles, nor great actions needed. Only the clairvoyance of the talented Navarrese footballer to think, send and play his own. It had only been four minutes since he was in the field when he received a ball from his back next to the bottom line, he lowered it with his chest and extended it to Guruzeta, who played the minimum to look for Maroan, who was already entering the second stick, although before the forward Alavés Manu Sánchez got in to push the goal in his own goal.
In his first light ball, Sancet sat chair, and continued to do so in the minutes he was in the field. With the Alavés hurrying his options, overturned in a rival field, but without auction because the Athletic centrals took everything out, he could enjoy his wide open field, turning to face and look for pass options. He put a few, for joy of his fans, when the alavesists left their rear tongued. It was a football lesson that lasted half an hour the deadline that Valverde had put to his presence in the field.
