“This has only just begun,” reassures Mujika

On Sunday in Navarra, Amorebieta conceded its first defeat of the season in a duel with lights and shadows practically in equal parts. Some logical flaws in the Zornotzarra team at this point in the championship, even more so with the important conditioning factor that Urritxe’s team have due to their profound renewal of the squad. The Blues still have a long way to go until they are the team that Haritz Mujika wants. Putting all the new pieces together takes time.

But it is beginning to intuit quite clearly what the Pasajes coach wants from his team. Order, intensity and a lot of overflow on the wings, where Amorebieta has plenty of arguments to do damage. And goal, especially goal. Probably less offensive zones are reached than Mujika and his coaching staff would like, but the effectiveness is being very high. There are already six goals for Urritxe’s squad at the start of the season, top scorer along with Castellón.

Urko Izeta has started the season at a very high level, leaving glimpses of his quality in each game and scoring his first two goals. Eneko Jauregi also adds a couple of hits, a more physical striker with a lot of ability to come from the second line. Gorka Iturraspe, whom the coach seems to be dosing after his injury during the season, and Toni Herrero have also scored in the first three competition dates.

Where more gaps are being seen is when it comes to stopping the attacks of the rivals. Although it has improved compared to the first two matchdays, in which Amorebieta was clearly outplayed by Sabadell and SD Logroñés, Osasuna was able to overcome the first lines of pressure too easily. In favor of the Biscayans, it must be said that they managed to reduce the number of dangerous arrivals in their area, but the disconnections and specific errors cost the game. The first goal comes in a succession of mismatches inside the area that allow Yoldi, faster than his peer, to anticipate in the small area to score. The second is the product of a poor clearance by the central defenders.

«They have started much better than us, which has cost us to enter the game, and they have advanced on the scoreboard. Then we were able to tie them and in the second half we changed our attitude, the way we approached the match, and we were better. But when we were better, his second goal came, “Mujika recounted after the match.

“A loss is always bad news. We have to face it as it has come. This has only just begun and we must continue forward, already thinking about adding the next three points at home, ”said the man from Pasajes. A clash in which they will receive Barça Atlètic, the subsidiary of the Blaugrana team, on Sunday from seven in the afternoon.

Urritxe’s coach, by the way, made a complaint in the Tajonar press room about the time of the match and how hot it was. «The federation will also see if it changes these schedules because it was too hot. We have suffered a lot », he snapped. However, either things change a lot or the blues will have no choice but to get used to it. Last Friday the schedules of everything that remains for the first round were announced, and Amorebieta will have to play eight more games at vermouth time.