Athletic 1-Atlético 0: I’ll take that
By: Paul | November 1st, 2009
Before yesterday, it had been over a month since Athletic won their last game. They started off strong, winning the first three matches of the season for the first time in a long time, the last of those being a 3-2 victory against Villareal (yes, it has been that long).
The game was played on what seemed to be a below-average level, which is something that can be expected from two teams that have seen a dip in form. Still, Javi Martinez’s lone goal was enough, and that’s something I can be satisfied with.
The next game will be played on Thursday at Nacional in the Europa League. I’m expecting another win, and hoping that Athletic can finally shake off bad form officially and come back strong into La Liga.
Category: Athletic Bilbao Team News
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we’ve got our problems, and there are a lot of times where our players look rather lost, but they’ve kept up the fight throughout all these games. Beating Athletico was great great fun despite the less then great performance.
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It’s a good win, an important result. I know Atletico have been very poor this season but they still had a strong line-up on paper. In the end Athletic rode their luck especially with the shots hitting the woodwork but sometime the luck goes your way and sometimes it doesn’t – today was Athletic’s time… or is it that Atletico’s luck is even worse at the moment?!
PS not even a yellow card for Ustaritz this time! And in my opinion a draw would be a perfectly acceptable result in Madeira!
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We were very, very lucky but hey, who said football was fair!
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ESPN Soccernet’s La Liga correspondent, Phil Ball has an article about the environment surrounding the Atletico match. Nice article — at least he tries to capture a little bit of the atmosphere of Sam Mames, even if he fails history 101.
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/columns/story?id=692836&sec=europe&root=europe
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