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One year gap in athletics
Athletic ended their competitive year on Monday with a crushing defeat against Espanyol in San Mamés, their fourth game of the league season. Rojiblancos took the lead BerengarHowever, after 6 minutes, the Perico team equalized the score with a wonderful goal of a player. rosemary And at the start of the second half Pere Mila The winning goal was scored after a serious defensive error by a local player. team of Valverde He forced the match late, but could not get the goal that would at least lead to a draw.
After the game, the coach recognized the team’s lack of play and established a comparison between the previous season and the current season. “It’s been a good year, but it’s true that we haven’t had the results we wanted this half-season. We’ve lost a lot of games, our numbers are worse than last year, when we were at the highest level, and this season we’re nowhere near where we were last season. We’ve had our problems and we’ve had injuries, but we have to do better,” he admitted.
The data for the same matches are very clear (25). Last year, 19 players played in the league (which was played until the end of the first round) and 6 in the Europa League, but this time 18 played in the regular tournament, 6 in the Champions League, and 1 from Ourense in the cup competition. The team had a bad result when you look at the numbers. At this time last year, the Lions had added 15 wins in all competitions (10 in the league and five in the Second Continent Tournament), but now have only nine wins (7+1+1 in the cup). Although the draw record was higher than the current one (7/4), the number of losses was very large and was a complete blow. Last season they played just three games (two away to Barça and Girona, and one at home against Atlético), now they have played 12, nine in the league (four against San Mamés, five away) and three in the Champions League.
The team’s ranking in the two tournaments it participated in at the end of 2024 is also very important. The Bilbao team is 4th in the league with 36 points, two behind third-place Barça, and second in the UEL with leaders Lazio on 16 points. They currently sit in 8th place in the domestic tournament with 23, occupying 6th (Betis) and 5th place, the last European competition at the moment, and 5th and 10th place occupied by the surprising Espanyol, with one game remaining, against Real Madrid in the Super Cup race in January. They are in 28th place in the Champions League.
The Lions can finish the first round with a maximum of 26 points if they defeat Osasuna on January 3 in their first match of 2026. That average will reach 52 points by the end of the season. In 38 days with 24 wins and 25 losses in the league, they needed 70 bags to win the title of champion. Everyone believes that it is almost impossible to reach this position, but in order to achieve the European targets set at each level (European League or Conference) in August, we need to significantly improve our numbers in the second round, starting with the visit to Mallorca in Son Moi.
Chinwuri acknowledged this in his last press conference of the year, even warning about how compressed the classification had become. “You have to look with one eye forward and the other behind you. If you want to win what you want, the second round has to be better. Any result is a step forward, any result is a step back,” he said. In any case, he also sent a message of hope, saying, “We have to cherish each and every game.There’s still a lot left to do, and there are many league games ahead.”
Source: Mundo Deportivo
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One of the two new teams on the Formula 1 grid is preparing to introduce its car for the 2026 season. The Audi team will officially reveal the new car at a special event in Berlin on Tuesday, January 20.
Audi has fully taken over Sauber’s project ahead of the 2026 season and will start its first Formula 1 championship as a factory team and power unit manufacturer. The team has also retained a significant portion of its 2025 Sauber structure, including team boss Jonathan Whitley and drivers Gabriel Bortoleto and Nico Hulkenberg.
This will make Audi the fourth team to submit designs for its 2026 car, after Red Bull, Racing Bulls and Haas. The presentation will take place in the German capital in the format of a full-fledged seasonal launch.
Following the main event, a separate event will be held in Berlin on Wednesday, January 21 for selected fans and media to take a closer look at the new car and its livery.
The presentation will start on January 20 at 20:00 Kyiv time. During the event, the team will reveal the car’s full design for the 2026 season.
Let’s remember that Audi had previously put the 2026 car on the track during promotional races at the Barcelona-Catalonia circuit in early January, but only a limited number of images were released at that time.
Formula 1. Presentation of the first Audi car. Watch LIVE online
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Formula 1 driver Nico Hulkenberg can count on a multimillion-dollar bonus in his first season with Audi if he can repeat the results in the 2025 season.
Last season, the German pilot reached the Formula 1 podium after 250 races for the first time in his career and finished the British Grand Prix in third place. At Silverstone, Hulkenberg was ahead of seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton and scored 15 points in one go.
Hulkenberg scored 51 points at the end of the 2025 season.
On the eve of Audi’s first season, specialized media reported that the 38-year-old pilot signed a contract providing a bonus of 50 thousand euros for each point earned in the 2026 season.
Given the large-scale changes in Formula 1, even the pilots themselves cannot yet predict the balance of power in the peloton. However, if Hulkenberg scores 51 points again, the bonus can reach 2 million 550 thousand euros in addition to his base salary at Audi.
If Nico manages to win the race and score the maximum 25 points, this will immediately earn him a bonus of 1,250,000 euros.
The team will present the appearance of its first car today at 20:00 Kyiv time.
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Thomas Berman, the younger brother of Haas Formula 1 team driver Oliver Berman, will officially take part in Italian Formula 4 and Euro 4 in the 2026 season.
Thomas will represent the VAR team colours.
The 16-year-old Briton spent last year in British Formula 4, where he scored one win and finished eighth in the final season standings.
But the ones that are considered the most prestigious and promising are the Italian and European Formula 4 championships. They are often chosen by young pilots for further career advancement. In addition, Thomas’ older brother Oliver Berman also competed in these series and became the Italian Formula 4 champion in 2021 with 11 wins.
Let us also remind you that Ukrainian Alexander Bondarev will compete in the same championships with the Prima Racing team in the 2026 season. The Ukrainian pilot does not hide his ambitions and has repeatedly expressed his intention to fight for the championship title.
Bondarev now participates in Middle East Formula 4 in preparation for the European leg of the season. After the first stage, he took first place in the general rankings and became the leader in the rankings.
Thomas Berman will compete in the Formula Winter Series as part of his preparations.
The competition between the current “four” promises to be extremely high, and the appearance of the younger brother of the Formula 1 pilot will only increase interest in the series.
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