A solitary bit of Borja Iglesias cut the streak of two consecutive defeats in the League and keeps Betis in the fight for fourth place that the verdiblancos have with Atlético, Barcelona, Villarreal and Real Sociedad. Athletic did not appear at the Benito Villamarín and not even Fekir’s expulsion in the final stretch for an attack on Muniain got the rojiblancos into the game.
BET
ATH
Betis
Rui Silva; Sabaly, Pezzella, Bartra, Miranda (Ruibal, 70′); Paul (Edgar, 88′), Guido; Canals, Fekir, Juanmi; Borja Iglesias (Carvalho, 73′).
Athletic
Unai Simon; De Marcos, Vivian, Yeray, Yuri (Balenciaga, 59′); Berenguer, Vencedor (Serrano, 84′), Vesga (Zarraga, 71′), Muniain; Sancet (Raúl García, 84′), Iñaki Williams (Nico Williams, 59′).
Goal
1-0 M. 20 Borja Iglesias.
Referee
Mateu Lahoz (Valencian Committee). TA: Pezzella (25′), Miranda (28′) and Canales (80′) / Yuri (8′), Berenguer (16′), Nico Williams (78′), De Marcos (80′), Sancet (80′ ). TR: Fekir (79′).
Incidents
Benito Villamarin. 45,000 spectators.
Andalusians and Basques printed a devilish rhythm to the first part. But in this situation, Betis found itself much more comfortable, whose Fekir’s hand transitions always carried poison. The French returned to congeal another fantastic party. Until she lost her mind and saw the red one. He threw his team on his back. He knows that Canales is not in his best moment and he had to pull the car again.
After a couple of serious arreones arrived the first green and white goal, the work of Borja Iglesias. Before, Juanmi had forgiven a very clear one-on-one with Unai Simón in which the one who filled the cunt with the ball. El Panda, however, later took advantage of a mild cross from Miranda from the left to head the ball into the net at the far post.
Marcelino saw that things were not working and decided to make a move after the break by bringing in Balenziaga for Yuri and exchanging the Williams. But only Munian generated any danger on the goal of Rui Silva, who returned to the eleven after having been a substitute in recent games. The captain of the ‘Leonese’ brushed the goal after putting a precious little straw on Bartra and finishing off with the toe.
Later he was the protagonist in the action that dynamited the meeting. She went to touch his face Fekir reproaching the Frenchman for a certainly unnecessary adornment in a control and he scrambled giving him a karate drag kick that earned him expulsion.
Even so, Athletic did not manage to get into the game, gray as it has rarely been seen this season. Even in numerical inferiority the approaches were Betis. Day to forget for the rojiblancos, who see how Europe is complicated for them.