
Athletic did not find a way to break down Valencia’s defensive wall, which resisted the final rush of the Bilbao team. / Manu Cecilio
These have been the keys to the match, in which the rojiblancos have had to settle for one point

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Athletic returned to play the game that Valencia wanted and was lost in a sea of protests
Nobody should be surprised by what was seen yesterday in San Mamés. The script had been written for months – there was a history of three games that allowed to conclude what was going to happen – and it was reproduced with the precision of a Swiss watchmaker. Athletic knew that Valencia would propose little, that it would stop the game, that it would waste time, that it would cut off the r

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