Valverde, from 4-0 at Anfield to 4-0 at Camp Nou

The arrival of Jon Uriarte to the presidency of the Athletic Club of Bilbao brought achieve a new face for the bench. After Marcelino García Toral took the decision to terminate his agreement with the Basque entity, Ernesto Valverde was the elected to do charge of the first team. Like this then , on 30 June of this year it confirmed the return of the ex technician of the FC Barcelona, the one who went back to Saint Mamés to fulfil his third stage like trainer of the 'lions'.

The return of the 'Txingurri' carried a lot of illusion to the followers bilbaínos, that were witnesses of a big start suspender belt by part of his team. The 'rojiblancos' began enrachados the local championship, winning 5 of the 7 parties contested between August and September and situating in European places. However, the last month has been an authentic nightmare for some Basques that do not know the victory in what it goes of October, with 2 ties and 2 defeats in his have.

Precisely, the last 'varapalo' received by the Barça has been very hard for the Athletic. The 'lions' visited the Spotify Camp Nou the past Sunday, in the return of Ernesto Valverde to which went his house between 2017 and 2020. In spite of being an extremely complicated rival, the bilbaínos were surpassed in his whole from the first minute and the square of Xavi Hernández gave them a review of period, marking 4 goals to achieve the three points.

This goleada, besides, had a meaning no very beautiful for Valverde. And it is that the historical Spanish trainer did not lose a party by 4 goals of difference from does more than 3 years, when the FC Barcelona visited Anfield Road on 7 May 2019 to contest the turn of the semifinals of the UEFA Champions League in front of the Liverpool. That traced back represented the start of the end of the era of Valverde in the Catalan group, those who sacked him 8 months afterwards.

The word of the trainer

When finalising the meeting in front of the culés, Ernesto attended to the media and showed his side more autocrítico when affirming that "we have not been neither near to win, is an evidence. We have tried the beginning launch them the pressure, but they went out well and afterwards have punished us in the arrivals. In ten minutes have done us three goals". Now, the technician will look for to give him a twist to his complicated present in Bilbao, where will receive the visit of the Villarreal next Sunday.