Valverde Breaks finally his maleficio in Saint Mamés

They say that the statistics in the sport are to break them. This same will have thought Ernesto Valverde this Saturday after the victory of the FC Barcelona in front of the Athletic Club in Saint Mamés. And it is that the Barcelona technician had been unable to add any triumph like visitor in the Basque stadium.

Valverde Has finish with this maleficio that had prevented him go of Saint Mamés with a smile. Until the moment, Valverde had fit four defeats in League and a tie in the Glass of the King in the five clashes in Saint Mamés like technical visitor. Tonight it finish the bad series.

The Barcelona technician bet by an eleven competitive headline, although with the surprises of Gomes in the left extreme and Roberto in the side. The Portuguese went back to be bad and Valverde took in changing it, but the luck was of his part and the interventions of Ter Stegen avoided a fright.

The history, broken

As we already explain before the party, in his stage like footballer Valverde contested three parties in Bilbao like visitor. The two first were with the Espanyol and in both fell defeated the group blanquiazul, by 2-1 in the season 1986-1987 (Sarabia and Urkiaga/Orejuela) and by 2-0 in the 1987-1988 (Urtubi, of penalti, and Uralde). A year later, already in the rows of the Barça, went back to fall by 3-2 (Mendiguren 2 and Uralde/Bakero and Julio Saltworks).

Already like technician, the one of Viandar of the Edge confronted in four occasions the Athletic in League adding other so many defeats. In the campaigns 2006-2007 and 2007-2008, with the Espanyol, lost by 2-1 (Urzaiz 2/Jonatas) and 1-0 (Garmendia), respectively; in the 2009-2010 with the Villarreal by 3-2 (Llorente 2 and Javi Martínez/Cani and Cazorla); and in the 2012-2013 with the Valency by 1-0 (Muniain).