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Last Updated: February 26, 2024, 00:00 IST
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Nico Williams was despatched off with two fast yellow playing cards to depart Athletic Bilbao with 10 gamers simply earlier than halftime in its 31 loss at Real Betis within the Spanish league on Sunday.
BARCELONA, Spain: Nico Williams was despatched off with two fast yellow playing cards to depart Athletic Bilbao with 10 gamers simply earlier than halftime in its 3-1 loss at Real Betis within the Spanish league on Sunday.
The Spain winger received his first card for a foul and compounded that by incomes a second reserving for his apparently sarcastic applause of the referee.
The loss meant Athletic didn’t make the most of Atletico Madrid’s 2-2 draw at backside facet Almeria on Saturday. Athletic remained in fifth place at three factors behind fourth-place Atletico. Betis moved into sixth, seven factors behind Athletic.
Chimy Ávila scored his first objective for Betis since becoming a member of from Osasuna within the winter switch window to take the thirteenth-minute lead. Yuri Berchiche added an personal-objective earlier than Williams was despatched off within the fortieth.
Gorka Guruzeta’s objective gave Athletic some hope within the 52nd, however Betis midfielder Johnny Cardoso added a 3rd with a strike from the sting of the realm within the 67th.
In the primary half, an assistant referee needed to depart the match after she ran right into a tv digital camera and reduce her head.
LAST-GASP EQUALIZER
Darwin Machis’ objective deep in damage time snatched Cadiz a 2-2 draw with Celta Vigo in a gathering of two groups in peril of relegation.
Iago Aspas and Williot Swedberg gave Celta a 2-0 benefit earlier than Juanmi Jiménez pulled one again for the hosts within the 66th. Rafa Benítez’s facet was nonetheless eyeing a victory till Machis curled a shot in from the nook of the realm simply earlier than the ultimate whistle.
Celta, in seventeenth, remained the final workforce clinging to security whereas 18th-place Cadiz was within the drop zone at three factors behind.
“You think you have it in the bag, you are up 2-0, and they score two goals on plays we could have stopped, so it is obvious we missed an opportunity,” Benítez mentioned. “We didn’t know how to manage those final minutes.”
Leader Real Madrid hosts Sevilla later Sunday.
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