Criticism has hit the white team for the supposed failure to draw at San Mamés

There was a time when drawing at San Mamés was blessed glory. For large teams, it is understood that for the little ones it was ecstasy. First of all, see the statistics, which from time to time help. Madrid have faced Athletic in Bilbao in 88 league games. He has won 31. Worse has gone to Barca, who has triumphed only in 26 of his 87 visits. Who was going to say it. And some of the defeats of both have not occurred at times when Athletic was a team bestiality, times of Zarra in black and white, but in others in which the Basque team was a hazellore. Well, at this point in life all that matters between little and nothing. Madrid arrived on Saturday at San Mamés and their conquest was reduced to a draw (1-1).Stand up in arms, then, Real Madrid before disaster size. Madrid have tied at San Mamés. The tragedy is served.


The so-called best league in the world, which at times only is from Spain (and not always), has entered a dynamic in which everything that Barça and Madrid do not win, play against whom they play, is a failure of both . It will be said that they have more power and more money than the rest, it is true. But in football there is still the element of surprise and, although it is strange, it is still a sport in which two teams play. The ninguneo to which it is put under any rival with which the two colossuses are measured, with the exception of the Athletic one, is delirious. And speaking of Atlético, his coach, Diego Pablo Simeone, is accustomed to emphasize the difference in budgets between Barça and Madrid and their team. The Argentine is not right in his complaining speech, although it is striking that again and again you forget to highlight the budget difference between your Athletic and, what do I know, the Eibar, or the Ray, or put the team you like. On those occasions he suffers a sudden Simeone blockade, for whom the monetary distances between his team and the plebe, however sidereal, are a minor issue.


But we were with the stumble, not to say disaster, not to say hecatomb, of Madrid in San Mamés. Where was a huge Athletic and, even so, could win, which prevented the formidable performance of Unai, young Athletic goalkeeper, who stopped what is not written. A few hours before, in San Sebastian, Barça had beaten Real Sociedad (1-2), helped by a ruling by Rulli, goalkeeper from San Sebastian. It happens that the successes of one and the error of another have caused Barça to remain alone in the lead and that Madrid, alas, enters into a dangerous drift. Everything would be the other way around if, say, Unai does not reject the missile that Asensio sent him and Rulli clears the ball as a category goalkeeper is supposed to do.


The always critical reader will say that this is very similar to that of grandmother, wheels and bicycle. Right. But it is that the tendency to exaggeration that invades us begins to be stomagante. Even more if the tie of Madrid in Bilbao joins the fact that Cristiano ended his drought in Juve and marked himtwo goals to that football-playing machine called Sassuolo. It is then when so many who enjoy so much in the middle of the apocalypse underline how much Madrid has lost with the loss of Christian. And they question, because until now they had not been able to do it, the performance of Bale, the player called to lead this team, that in San Mamés had a gray performance that only gave him to give him a prodigious goal pass to Isco. Bale is that footballer whose incidence in the game of Madrid is insignificant, as it shows that in the last 10 official matches he has played his contribution is only 10 goals and three assists. The last time Bale played a game of Madrid without participating in at least one goal was on the 33rd day of the last League, when the team, with him on the bench and led by Cristiano,