The Onion takes another win at Atletico, Bielsa Bilbao loses again

Last update 16 November, 2012 by Julio Muñoz

Atlético has installed in the cloud and does not go down. A bad game against Viktoria Plzen threatened to generate the first blur of an immaculate path. But Atlétic, With a goal at the last minute. A Rodríguez onion traclazo disarmed the resistance of the Czechs in a bad game of the rojiblancos, that they played without the usual intensity but that total fifteen consecutive wins in Europe. [Thus we have narrated Atlético-Vikoria Plzen]

Atlético Automatisms squeedd at the first glance. He moved with heaviness, Without sparkling spirit he has shown at this beginning of the season. It lacked intensity, some general attention and that point of determination that characterizes the team. Atlétic. He started with doubts, He continued without Diana in the adversary frame and closed the first part between the mutter of Calderón, that glimpsed danger in the course of the night.

Simeone turned the pieces again in search of a comfortable ecosystem in which it is not distinguished if Emre or Mario Suárez plays, Polishing or Godin and asenjo or curtois. However, Something did notice. The Noria of the changes weakened to the defense, less resounding than other times by the right side (Kader) and by the center. This contagion effect crossed other areas of the field and the team did not find its game dynamics. Adrian, with a lot of encouragement, He tried to provide individual solutions but the front phenomenal has not yet acquired the form and range of last year. His penetrations died in the front of the area or the background.

In that athletic indefinition it was appreciated that the Viktoria was not as weak as the Hapoel on the first day. The Czech team showed ease, technique and depth. A couple of midfielders with level, Rajoral and Draida, complicated the existence to the colchonera defense and in a loss of EMRE, The Calderón visualized the rival goal.

Asenjo neutralized a shrazo of Pro Chazka with the night stop, feline stretched to the squad. The Viktoria grew up and Simeone had to use her first swords. Tiago and Raúl García gave more consistency to their team, More influx on arrival and game alternatives. The game advanced, however, leading and thick, Between inaccuracies of the mattresses and the threat of a counterattack of the Czechs.

Rodríguez's perseverance was not transmitted as a distribution strap and Atlétic. Viktoria was applied effectively in defense and stretched without shyness. Atlético sought hasty solutions and distant shots because there was little fluidity in the combination and little depth. Nothing came out. But he kept the faith until the end and won the prize. A huge trolazo of onion Rodríguez one minute from the conclusion gave him the triumph that he sought underated this time.

The Bilbao of evil to worse

The Athletic Club of Bilbao has not been able to restore the wounds that the poor start of the League and its European campaign are causing it. Prague Sparta rummaged on Thursday defeating Bilbao by 3-1 On the second day of the Europa League at the Generali Arena in the capital of the Czech Republic.

Zapotocný, former Udinese side, opened the scoring thanks to a powerful shot in which Iraizoz could do more. The second, before the break, With Balaj's head shot he finished killing the rojiblancos, This Thursday with the colors of the ‘Ikurriña’. The third was transformed by Husbauer by penalty, It is missing that the referee whistled unfairly within the area. Marcos made the Czech win in the minute 72.

Bilbao had no party control
In a wet afternoon and suction cup we had to wait until the minute 20 For one of the two goalkeepers to feel the danger of the goal, Castillo arrived on the left and put a very touched center that Jarosik cleared leaving him for Marcos, His diverted auction was about to touch him Aduriz de Tacón.

When three minutes later it seemed that Athletic could take the game a serious sparta notice with a shot to the young Kadlec's stick, He wanted to place after being alone before Iraizoz after receiving a magnificent pass on the back of the Bilbao defense.

After thunder came the lightning two minutes later when Zapotocny released a shoe from 24 meters that folded his hands to a flour Iraizoz. The goalkeeper may have had to reject from fists the powerful shot that saw his position come. The Czech goal warned the lions that they couldn't fail anymore and that they had to demonstrate their theoretical superiority.

And he tried three minutes later when Marcos collected a rejection on the front and his powerful and placed shot forced Vaclik to stretch to clear the ball and with him all the danger that Athletic created in the first half.

The occasions followed for local players in the face of the visitors's game, who were missing ideas and the calm necessary to look for them.

The sounds of the Czech auctioneer storm were heard again in the minute 34 When Krejci managed. Once again came the ray that knocked out scared lions.

Husbauer picked up a Basque rejection on the front, He was scrupled to the right wing to put a long and pumped center to the second stick that Balaj, No defense brand, He headed to pleasure. The ball still had time to touch Aduriz's noses before he ended up getting out of Iraizoz.

In the minute 40 The men of omenlav lavicka already had half -slaughter made with the 2-0 While Bielsa's were waiting for a talk of his, of those that suggest how the parties are lost even if there are no explanation for this.

No changes in the second part
Neither of the two coaches introduced changes in the beginning of the second part, Normal in Sparta that the game began with its best men while the Athletic bench was heated to him men like Llorente or Ander Herrera.

Those who stayed on the grass of Generali Arena wanted to demonstrate a change in attitude and Ibai did it when in the 48 He released a foul from the right wing that fell in the middle of the pot where Gurpegi managed to finish off almost goal, The Vaclik goalkeeper, With a prodigious hand, He avoided it.

Two minutes later the lions had the goal opportunity again, Iturraspe suck from the front to the base of the vaclik post that he managed to clear with his stretch, The rejection rondó between Ibai and Aduriz that were not able to shout.

In skinny dog ​​everything is fleas
The referees who invented a penalty against those of Bilbao in the minute was added to the Athletic's mistake 54 When the Portuguese of Sousa pointed to Kadlec's lack of Castillo when he was admitted to the area.

Husbauer transformed the maximum penalty impeccably with a shot adjusted to the right stick of Iraizoz that saw the ball arrive at the networks from the left post deceived by the Czech player. He 3-0 in the minute 55 Bielsa seemed to Bielsa too punishment for the Europa League runner -up.

The Rosarino remembered the bench players and ten minutes later were playing Isma López, Ander Herrera and Fernando Llorente. In it 72 Consolation arrived for the Bilbao, Muniain reached the sparta kitchen and already stuck to the lime of the background gave the mortal pass that Marcos only had to push the ball so that on the scoreboard, 3-1, The honor of the lions appeared.

There were almost twenty minutes left for the heroic and Llorente walked close to tightening the result in the 80 When he did not reach the excellent pass to the hole that Ander Herrera put after driving the ball through the front of the Czech area.

Those of Marcelo Bielsa, current runner -ups of the competition, They are not even the shadow of that version that amazed the ‘Old Continent’ just a few months ago. Sad, No speed in his game and with Fernando Llorente on the bench, Life is more difficult for rojiblancos.

But Bielsa is still in his thirteen. The ‘conflict’ last Monday, When he expelled Rioja from training, He has done nothing but envive the embers and solidify the theories that conspire with a broken costume, that he does not believe in his coach's speech. “That peace fails does not mean that there is a lack of union”, The Argentine said in the previous.

The best news for the Basques has been the return of Ander Herrera after overcoming an injury that has had a month out of competition.