Part 2: Athletic Club vs. Racing Santander – Spanish La Liga Review
Racing Santander tried their best to score a few goals and did get some shots on target. On the other hand, Athletic Club tried their best to defend their two-goal lead and played good counter attacking football. Racing were playing more directly and looked
as if they might get through on goal.
The Racing striker was fed by Colsa and he found himself alone in front of goal. However, he could not comprehensively finish the ball into the net as Gorka Izairos made sure that he rushes forward to make himself bigger. A great chance was denied as the
visitors were left stranded between a two-goal margin at San Mames.
On the other hand, Athletic Club were trying to enjoy most of the ball during the second half. The Los Leones were trying their best to sit back and enjoy the possession of the ball as they had a two-goal lead that looked to be comfortable enough to give
them the well-deserved three points. They tried to sit back and had at least eight men behind the ball to defend the goal advantage. By keeping possession of the ball and defending tightly, they were accomplishing the time-wasting strategy as they tried to
play it safe.
Even though http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Adrián-c3701 Gonzales to add another striker up front as their
coach Miguel Angel http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Martinez-c24468.
It was Kennedy Bakircioglu who won a free kick on the left flank and decided to take himself. The Racing midfielder delivered an inch-perfect set piece and Ivan Bolado managed to get away from his marker and easily headed past http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Gorka-Iraizoz-c15189 to pull one back.
It looked as if Racing finally found the spirit to start a comeback against the over-defensive Athletic Club side.
The goal gave them the extra energy to think that they might find an equalizer. However, the hosts tried to play it calm and tossed the ball amongst each other to keep the pressure on Racing. The visitors barely got the ball for the last five minutes as
the home team was trying to keep the one goal advantage intact. However, there was some last minute action as http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Pedro-Munitis-c29620 got a red card after he roughly tackled David Lopez. With a man down, there was definitely no chance for Racing to equalize and Athletic
Club got the well deserved victory.
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