In the Basque derby and the duel of the 22nd round of the Spanish La Liga, there was no winner at the San Mames stadium, the players of Athletic and Real Sociedad played 1-1.
Guedes in the 37th minute put the guests from San Sebastian in the lead and Real Sociedad led for a long time. Problems arose for the visitors in the 83rd minute when Brais Mendez blushed and Real Sociedad had to defend with one less player.
As the end approached, the domestic attacks became more and more fierce, and in the 88th minute De Galarreta nice shot to equalize at 1-1. Athletic was close to a complete turnaround in the end, but still did not score a second goal from two good chances.
Croatian football player Luka Sucic he was in the initial away team, and was replaced in the 63rd minute. Due to an earlier red card, Duje Ćaleta-Car did not compete for Sunday’s duel.
Real Sociedad remained eighth, while Athletic moved up to 11th in the table.
Getafe and Celta drew goalless
Getafe and Celta players played scoreless game this sunday. The expectedly tough game did not offer many real opportunities in front of any goal and everything ended with a division of points and a goalless match.
With that, Celta has drawn for the ninth time this season in the championship and is the La Liga record holder in that regard with Elche. Celta remained in seventh place, while Getafe took a step forward and are now 15th in the standings.
Betis beat Valencia in the finish
Betis players beat Sevilla Valencia 2-1 after a turnaround. The visitors could have taken the lead already in the 13th minute, but then Pepelu did not realize the shot from the penalty spot. Despite that, Valencia took the lead a little later, in the 20th minute, Rioja was the reason why the fans in the stands fell silent.
Betis equalized just three minutes later when Avila converted a penalty for 1-1 and then each team kept a point in their pockets until the 88th minute. Then, with some indecision in the visiting defense, Fornals was concentrated and was the scorer for Betis’ final celebration of 2-1.
With this victory, Betis climbed to fifth place in the ranking.
La Liga, round 22:
Athletic Bilbao – Real Sociedad 1-1 (De Galarreta 88 / Guedes 37)
Getafe – Celta 0-0
Betis – Valencia 2-1 (Avila 23-11m, Fornals 88 / Rioja 20)
Real Madrid – Rayo Vallecano 2-1 (Vinicius Junior 15, Mbappe 90+10-11m / De Frutos 49)
Saturday:
Oviedo – Girona 1-0 (Chaira 74)
Osasuna – Villarreal 2-2 (Munoz 20, Budimir 45+2 / Moreno 17-11m, 70)
Levante – Atletico Madrid 0-0
Elche – Barcelona 1-3 (Rodriguez 29 / Lamine Yamal 6, Torres 40, Rashford 72)
Friday:
Espanyol – Alaves 1-2 (Fernandez Jean 15 / Blanco 27, Boye 71)
(Hina | Photo: Real Sociedad)
