Athletic starts this week the final stretch of the season. The lions have a marathon ahead until on May 24 and 25 ends the 2024-25 season that began on August 15 with the visit of Getafe to San Mamés. There will be seven or eight games in 25 days, depending on whether the lions reach the final of the Europa League or not. In the first case it will be a meeting every three and a half days and in the second, every three.
The team of Valverde He receives Manchester United on Thursday in the first leg of the Europa League semifinal in an appointment that San Mamés will fill out and on Sunday he visits the Real at the Anoeta derby, already knowing that Imanol Sheriff will not continue to lead the Txuri Urdin next season. On the 8th the return to the Red Devils. As expected, the appointment has aroused great expectation in Bizkaia, as happened thirteen years ago when the team then led by Marcelo Bielsa He visited Old Trafford. 15,195 members have requested one of the 3,186 inputs available. Many will go to the English city without a town.
On Sunday 11 he has to return to the League to play another derby, in this case against Alavés in San Mamés. The greeting are fighting for permanence. The Bilbao will visit the Getafe de Embroidery On Thursday 15, although this date is pending confirmation as LaLiga pointed out when the schedules corresponding to day 35 made public: “matches subject to modification depending on the possible participation of Athletic in the UEFA EUFA EUFA EUFA EUFA EUFA Europa League and its possible affectation to day 37”. It all depends on whether Valverde's team plays the continental final. In this case, the colise of the Coliseum would be ahead of Wednesday to play against Valencia in Mestalla on Saturday 17 and thus have four days of recovery for the game for the title that will be played in San Mamés on Wednesday 21.
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After visiting the Che, there would only be a confirmed meeting, Barça's visit to San Mamés on May 24 or 25 at a unified schedule. The lions will have the only clean week between two commitments in case of not taking the ticket to the meeting that the champion of the second continental competition will decide.
Valverde He clearly expressed it last Tuesday in the previous one to receive the UD Las Palmas. “This game comes very fast, then we have a week to prepare the first leg of the semifinal and then it is crazy. Everything followed, to see how we administer it. There is nothing left. What remains is everything decisive,” he said.
The triumph against the Canaries certified a European square for the next season and left the Champions League stroke. Bilbao are rooms with 60 points, six above Betis and eight of Villarreal, although the yellow ones have one less match, the postponed against Espanyol that will be played today in ceramics. The gap is considerable and more considering that the fifth position will also lead to the Champions League.
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Now the great goal is the European final and once in it, win it for the first time in history. Athletic has a season sprint ahead of glory.
