Athletic de Bilbao – Real Sociedad – live from the UFO

As they say in loose matches, the fight dominated the match between Sociedad and Bilbao in blue and white (Photo: AFP)

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COPA DEL REY
END OF THE CALL 2019-2020
ATHLETIC BILBAO – REAL SOCIEDAD 0-1 (0-0)
Seville. Directed by: J. Estrada Fernandez
ATHLETIC: Simón – De Marcos, Yeray, I. Martínez, Yuri (Capa, 93.) – Berenguer (Villalibre, 76.), Dani García (Vesga, 76.), Vencedor (U. López, 68.), Muniain – I. Williams, Raúl García. Trainer: Marcelino
REAL SOCIETY: Remiro – Nacho Monreal, Le Normand, Zubeldía, Gorosabel (Elustondo, 93.) – David Silva (Guevara, 85.), Zubimendi, Merino, Portu (Barrenetxea, 88.) – Isak (C. Fernández, 93.), Oyarzabal . Trainer: Imanol Sheriff
Gólszerző: Oyarzabal (63-11)

RESUME

With the final of the Copa del Rey Athletic de Bilbao – Real Sociedad held in 2021 instead of 2020, due to the coronavirus epidemic, this match is already special, but we can also say that this match has become quite strange.

It was strange, for example, when IV. King Felipe of Spain took his place in the almost empty stadium of Seville, in an atmospheric Basque derby, while in Bilbao the fans took to the streets in the early afternoon to “warm up” the match in a fiery atmosphere – coronavirus here, restrictions there …

It was strange then to see the legend of the Bilbao club in the stands, who retired last summer at the age of 39, without winning the Spanish Cup in his long career. Aritz adurizt, who was still on the pitch last spring in the quarter-finals of the victory against Barcelona, ​​and has now been able to encourage him to be added to his name in the databases to be a cup winner ( while it is no longer active).

On the other hand, it is also unusual that he played a major role in last year’s Society Cup march, including his valiant 4-3 victory over his parent association Real Madrid (he scored a goal against the Madriders that lent him), in three goals and three assists for Norway Martin Ödegaard By the time of the cup final, he was already at Arsenal a few countries away against Liverpool. It is true that the Society began David Silva, who was still a Manchester City player at the time of last year’s big march, and then couldn’t imagine winning the 2019-2020 Spanish Cup …

And it became! After a very strange game … Bilbao showed the only goal shot in the first half, while Sociedad had much more possession of the ball. At the start of the second half, however, Bilbao beat themselves up, which meant that the team’s defender, Íñigo Martínez, scored the only goal of the match after a lurid maneuver by the Society. Martínez first hit the ball with his hand in front of the sixteen line, after a long video only Bilbao swam the penalty, then shortly after he overthrew Portu as the last man of the sixteen, after which the referee first turned the red card . to yellow after the video, but the legitimate 11 Mikel Oyarzabal changed to a goal. 0-1

Won only eight goal games in 90 minutes The Society, which returned to conquer the cup after 1987, is now for the third time in its history. So Ödegaard became the winner of the Spanish Cup with Liverpool 3-0 with Arsenal.

But to end the finale: Bilbao could improve against Barcelona in two weeks, in the final phase of the 2021 competition …

Real Sociedad reached the cup final more than a year ago, but only now could they play the final and lift the trophy (Photo: AFP)

MINUTE BY MINUTE

GAME OVER! SOCIETY WON!

93 min There are no situations, only substitutions: C. Fernández substituted Isak, Capa substituted Yuri, Elustondo substituted Gorosabel.

Eight minutes of overtime!

88 min The melodic Barrenetxea replaced Poru.

85 min He also replaces Sociedad: David Silva is replaced by Guevara.

76 min Beral replaced Villalibre and D. García was replaced by Vesga.

71 min Merino slapped his opponent for a yellow card.

68 min The first exchange arrives: in Bilbao, Vencedor was replaced by Unai López, born in San Sebastián.

Minute 65 GBADBAN TO BILBAO! This time, Scoiety fought a free kick in front of the goal, just twenty meters away. But Isak’s shot jammed the wall in line.

63. GOAL! LEAD THE SOCIETY! Stayed by 11 o’clock and moved to the right Oyarzabal He cruelly sewed it on the left side of the door.

59th minute DONE? Exposure and eleventh in favor of the Society? Martínez got a red card, knocked down Portu as the last man, but they are video! The red card was withdrawn, it became a yellow card.

49 min It was decided after almost three minutes of video, there was no penalty, a free kick could follow, which was easily expressed by the Bilbao team.

46 minutes VIDEO! Martinez crossed at the sixteen line but crossed the ball with his hand, questioning whether he was on the line or outside the sixteen.

STARTED AT 2, MIDDLE

AFTER A ONE-MINUTE EXTENSION, THE FIRST HALF ENDS. The second could only be better …

43 min Williams’ forehand pass was developed first by the defenders and second by the goalkeeper.

35 min Dani García received a yellow card after a collision.

32 min FINALLY A SITUATION! Martinez’s shot, just twenty meters away, was pushed by Remiro.

Great fight, lots of rain, little football: the chronicle of the first 30 minutes …

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– Real Sociedad Fútbol (@RealSociedad) April 3, 2021

31 min But with Marcos on the right, the defenders saved a corner, and Athletic did not make a situation with that either.

29 min Muniain cheated on the left, the defenders saved a corner, the first corner of Bilbao could have arrived, which did not go well.

28 min Oyarzabal’s right back. It was easily developed by Bilbao.

20 minutes 59 percent have possession of the ball, Sociedad, but the blues did not quite get to the shot.

19 min The Society finished the first corner of the match, but it did not become a situation, only a free kick …

16 min Dani García’s pass was headed by Monreal at sixteen, but the referee had already blown up the attack, while Raúl García and Oyarzabal kicked together., the latter had to be nurtured.

13 min The Society has more possession of the ball, but the only dangerous attack so far has been made by Bilbao in a quick counterattack just now. Now the Athletic goalkeeper had to go out, but Simón lived with the game, putting the ball right in front of the attackers.

11 min He had to wait more than ten minutes for the first shot: a cross ball from Williams hit the right of Raúl García, who fired from a very tight angle, about ten meters, but the ball slipped in front of the goal.

6 min It’s raining, the gates are not in danger yet.

THE MATCH HAS STARTED! Society started.

HISTORY

♦ Although the game takes place behind closed doors, the Drukkers marched through the streets of Bilbao in the afternoon to tune in to the derby with fiery spirits.

♦ It is a great loss for Real Sociedad not to be able to play due to a calf injury to team captain Asier Illaramendi.

♦ In the quarterfinals of the 2019-2020 cup series last February, Real Sociedad said goodbye to Real Madrid 4-3 and Bilbao 1-0 at Barça. Now the end of that call takes place. In the 2020-2021 season, the Company has already fired in the round of 16, while Bilbao could return to make the final decision in two weeks, then against Barcelona. It could be a great argument for the Society that last year’s team does not have the Norwegian Martin Ödegaard, who has scored three goals and three assists in the cup in 2019-2020 and has since joined Arsenal. True, Manchester City world champion David Silva, returning home from Spain, has since joined the squad.

The Society, playing in blue and white, won the December championship of the two teams (Photo: AFP, file)

♦ Of the two teams, the Society, which ranks sixth in the Spanish ranking with 45 points, is currently only three places ahead of Bilbao by ten points. However, the Society is not in good shape, losing the last two games after defeating Levante, losing 1-0 away from Granada and 6-1 at home away from Barça. It is true that in the three previous days, Bilbao also had only two points collected. The two teams have met once this season, winning the Cristian Portu Society goal 1-0 in Bilbao in December.

♦ Besides Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​Athletic Bilbao is the third club in Spain to never leave the first league since the national championship was launched in 1929, the success of this year’s Spanish Super Cup in 2009 , 2012 and 2015. The victory of the Copa del Rey, the next two cup finals now in two weeks and the silver medal of the Europa League 2012 show that the federation, which does not loosen its local ties, will continue to be competitive in the 2000s.

♦ Those who know the football map of Spain, extremely diverse in terms of ethnic and territorial traditions, know that it is connected by an inseparable link, but at the same time there is an inseparable tension between Bilbao and Real Sociedad, the Euskal Derbia, the two participants in the Basque derby. The representation of Basque identity defined the life and aspirations of both Athletic Bilbao, founded in 1898, and Real Sociedad, two-time and two-time champion established in 1909, even going beyond the limits.

♦ We are witnessing an absurdity in the history of football in Spain, where in two weeks two Copa del Rey finals will be played due to the entanglement caused by the coronavirus epidemic, both times with Athletic Bilbao: Bilba will play his Cup final against Real Sociedad, postponed since the spring of 2020, in Seville, and on April 17 will follow the final of the 2021 Cup against Barcelona, ​​also on paper.