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Kickoff: 21:00 CEST / 20:00 BST / 3:00 PM EDT / 12:00 PM PDT

Venue: Estadio Olimpico Lluis Companys

Referee: Juan Martinez Munuera


Lineups:

Barcelona: Marc-Andre ter Stegen - Alejandro Balde, Inigo Martinez, Andrea Christensen, Joao Cancelo - Gavi, Oriol Romeu, Ilkay Gundogan - Joao Felix, Ferran Torres, Fermin Lopez

Subs: Inaki Pena, Ander Astralaga, Ronald Araujo, Marcos Alonso, Hector Fort, Unai Hernandez, Lamine Yamal, Marc Guiu

Athletic: Unai Simon - Yuri Berchiche, Aitor Paredes, Dani Vivian, Oscar de Marcos - Inigo Ruiz de Galarreta, Dani Garcia - Nico Williams, Oihan Sancet, Inaki Williams - Gorka Guruzeta

Subs: Julen Agirrezabala, Inigo Lekue, Imanol Garcia de Albeniz, Peru Nolaskoain, Malcom Adu Ares Djalo, Alex Berenguer, Ander Herrera, Benat Prados, Unai Gomez, Asier Villalibre, Raul Garcia


Match Events:

10' - Ferran center to Joao Felix who hits the crossbar

14' - Unai Simon with a huge save on Fermin Lopez

16' - Yellow card for Gavi

27' - Substitution for Athletic: Inigo Lekue on for Yuri Berchiche

37' - Yellow card for Dani Garcia

41' - Yellow card for Oriol Romeu

45+1' - Nico Williams has a solid chance but ter Stegen makes a stop with his leg

45+2' - End of half

58' - Felix's shot rebounds to Fermin Lopez as Unai Simon makes a double save

60' - Substitution for Barcelona: Lamine Yamal and Araujo on for Oriol Romeu and Christensen respectively

64' - Felix finds Yamal on the right side, but the latter can't get his shot on target

67' - Substitution for Athletic: Adu Ares and Benat Prados on for Guruzeta and Inigo Ruiz de Galarreta respectively

73' - Yellow card for Adu Ares

76' - Substitution for Athletic: Berenguer and Unai Gomez on for Nico Williams and Dani Garcia respectively

79' - Substitution for Barcelona: Marcos Alonso and Marc Guiu on for Balde and Fermin Lopez respectively

80' - Joao Felix finds Marc Guiu in open space. Marc Guiu is one on one against Unai Simon and gets a goal on his first touch. Barcelona 1, Athletic 0 -- link

83' - Yellow card for Marc Guiu

89' - Yellow card for de Marcos

90+4' - End of game. Barcelona 1, Athletic Club 0


Match Stats - via Livescore.com

Barcelona Athletic
xG 1.45 0.53
xA 0.55 0.84
Possession 62% 38%
Shots on target 7 3
Shots off target 4 5
Blocked shots 1 2
Corner kicks 4 7
Offsides 4 4
Fouls 11 18
Yellow Cards 3 3
Red Cards 0 0

Standings:

Team GP W L T GF GA GD Pts
Real Madrid 10 8 1 1 21 7 +14 25
Girona 10 8 1 1 24 13 +11 25
Barcelona 10 7 0 3 22 10 +12 24
Atletico Madrid 9 7 1 1 23 8 +15 22
Real Sociedad 10 5 2 3 18 12 +6 18
Athletic Club 10 5 3 2 16 10 +6 17
Rayo Vallecano 10 4 2 4 12 13 -1 16
Real Betis 10 3 2 5 12 14 -2 14
Osasuna 10 4 5 1 11 14 -3 13
Valencia 9 3 4 2 10 11 -1 11
Getafe 10 2 3 5 13 16 -3 11
Las Palmas 10 3 5 2 6 9 -3 11
Sevilla 9 2 4 3 14 13 +1 9
Villarreal 10 2 5 3 12 16 -4 9
Cadiz 9 2 4 3 8 12 -4 9
Alaves 10 2 5 3 8 14 -6 9
Mallorca 10 1 4 5 12 16 -4 8
Celta Vigo 10 1 6 3 10 18 -8 6
Granada 10 1 6 3 15 25 -10 6
Almeria 10 0 7 3 13 29 -16 3

Upcoming Fixtures:

Barcelona: vs Madrid, 10.28, 16:15 CEST

Athletic: vs Valencia, 10.29, 18:30 CEST


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[–] HenryReturns@alien.top 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Barca is like playing FIFA irl , literally just spawns academy players , makes them debut , and have instant results.

[–] Alive-Ad-4164@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

People thought la masia was washed

[–] Civil-Broccoli@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Is this people here in the room with you?

[–] Call_me_Tetsuo@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

At some point in the last couple of seasons I remember we had a game where Sergio Roberto and Jordi Alba were the only La Masia graduates in the match day squad. La Masia looked well and truly done for.

[–] ComplexLivid7798@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Love to see Felix thriving under a real team. Would be great to see Barca make whatever moves necessary to keep him.

[–] westgate141pdx@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Love to see Joao thriving both in goals and assists. Such a talented player.

[–] The_Vulgar_Bulgar@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Barca looked a completely different side, and I'm unsure what changed. I was so extremely skeptical of them after that first-half display, but they came out swinging, and could've had a barrage of goals.

I was positively surprised by Guiu as well. He didn't have too many chances to impress, but he scored that crucial goal, and I enjoyed his very positive playstyle. Excited to see more.

[–] DinglieDanglieDoodle@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Romeu slows things down, his awareness of the pitch is relatively small and takes a bit of time to expand when he’s facing away from the opponent’s goal. When he doesn’t get the chance to see and settle because he got pressured immediately, you see him apparently needlessly holding the ball up protecting it and risk losing the ball on Barca’s side of the pitch. (If you keep an eye out on it, you will notice moments like these happening too often, it will appear like he’s inviting pressure for no reason and not playing the ball away, it’s because he’s unsure of doing anything)

Now I also notice his defenders and keeper being a extra wary of passing to him if he doesn’t have way more space, because he turns slow and makes decisions slow.

He works best letting Frenkie do the attacking part of the job.

[–] Fatun3rd@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Barca's midfield was kind of shaky, it didn't seem like the midfielders were on the same page. Their defence was pretty good in the second half, especially after Araujo came on. I'm convinced that Joao Felix is just an average player, he has skill but usually has low football IQ.

Bilbao were mostly solid, they just were not great at anything. Their offside trap was not good.

[–] FuanMDM@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

bro what? Joao was the best player among everyone

[–] GSNadav@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I'm convinced that Joao Felix is just an average player, he has skill but usually has low football IQ

??? His decision making under pressure in the final third was top tier this match

[–] Skill3x@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

You watched this game and your takeaway is that Joao Felix is average??

[–] MakIRAQ@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Joao Felix was MoTM, what a performance by him.

Martinez had a really good game. His forward passes were on point today and one of them made the goal possible.

Happy for Guiu, it must feel like heaven.

[–] Stupidrookie1414@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] JS569123@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Should have been MOTM really, either him or Simon

[–] ThemosttrustedFries@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Joao Felix continues delivering. Ernesto Valverde is doing a great job at Atletic Club Bilbao.

[–] acousticburrito@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Yes. Best player on your team. Pay the 80M.