As logic dictated, there was no miracle in Old Trafford. He Athletic Club de Bilbao dreamed for a few minutes with the comeback thanks to a Goiso de Mikel Jauregizarbut it was overwhelmed in the final stretch of the game. The first leg and that Painful 0-3 in San Mamés It was too much for an Athletic who runs out of the historical opportunity to play the final of the Europa League In his stadium.
In any other situation, to think about tracing a 0-3 to United in Old Trafford would be treated for madness, of thought that only a fool could have, but this United, the worst in the history of the Premier League and defined as its coach as the worst English team to be able to raise a European title-affirmation corroborated by the data-, anything can happen.
That is why when Mikel Jauregizar put the leather on the squad At half an hour, in a play caused by a concatenation of errors of Harry Maguire, there were few in the tier of Old Trafford who thought “my mother, which is coming.”
The lions advanced with a goal from Mikel Jaureguizar. / Associated Press/LaPresse / LAP
That goal had been a oasis in the attempt to come Of the Bilbao, that beyond a couple of shooting without danger of Berenguer, they were well contained by the English, happy with the 0-0 and with the spaces that were generated in the opposite field.
It was a IDONE PARTY FOR GARNACHO THE HOJLUND They will take advantage of some to kill this and clear any hint of comeback of the Athletic's head, but, of course, this is United, and the goal of Jauregizar caused the legs to tremble and that the English leave to go to rest. “What if they go back to us, what?”
Who would leave a disaster like that. If in the Vatican new Pope was being chosen, here in Manchester it would be necessary to change to the pointedman.
But to this Athletic, Without the Williams brothers nor its top scorer, Oihan Sancetin attack, it cost him horrors to create. That is why every time they approached three quarters of court, the occasion ended in a remote shot. And one can enter you, but that they go inside three in a space of ninety minutes is already much more complicated.
Little by little the flame of a comeback that only approached the Bilbao imaginary in that shot of Jauregizar was extinguished. He could not be tangible, perhaps because of the casualties or by the first leg errors and, although Athletic competed again, as thirteen years ago, this time the result was much more bitter.
Manchester United celebrates Athletic Club. / ADAM VAUGHAN / EFE
There will be no end in San Mamés or a European title that always escapes them. The executioner of the last hope was Mason Mount, who with a turn inside the area and a right auction ended up lying the last miracle's dream. Casemiro, Rasmus Hojlund and Mount again, from almost the center of the countryside, already with the team surrendered, they have been sentenced a long -dead match.
The league is missing and try to qualify for the Champions League, but the aftertaste that is left to Valverde is that trains, such as playing a European final in your stadium, only pass once in a lifetime.
