Barca occupies second seat in the standings after defecting Bilbao

2021-02-11 02:36

Barca occupies second seat in the standings after defecting Bilbao

Barca beat Bilbao 2-1.

BARCELONA - Two goals from Lionel Messi, and Antoine Griezmann ended Barcelona's 2-1 victory over Athletic Bilbao in the 21La Spanish League 2020/2021 jornada, Estadio Camp Nou, Monday (1/2) early morning WIB.


Messi opened the faucet Los Azulgrana's winning goal in the 20th minute, before Bilbao equalized through Jordi Alba's own goal in the 49th minute.

It is fortunate that Barca have a striker as sharp as Griezmann. The former Atletico Madrid striker brought Barca winning 2-1 again with his goal in the 74th minute.

These results make Barca move up to second place in the La Liga standings with the same number of points as Real Madrid in third. Los Cules are 10 points behind Atletico Madrid in first place.

On the other hand, this defeat kept Bilbao in 11th place. Marcelino Garcia's men have just collected 24 points from seven wins, three draws and 10 defeats.

Athletic Bilbao immediately stung Barca's defense at the second interval of the match. The result was that Frenkie de Jong had to receive a yellow card after committing a foul on Bilbao players.

Four minutes later, in the 49th minute, the visitors managed to equalize through an own goal from Barca full-back Jordi Alba.

Starting from the movement of Iker Muniani who then released the bait directly in front of Barca's goal, Jordi Alba, who intends to cut the bait, instead directs the ball into the net himself. Temporary score to 1-1.

The two coaches made substitutions, from Barca's camp Ronald Koeman pulled out Miralem Pjanic and was replaced by Sergi Roberto. For the Athletic Bilbao camp, Marcelino Garica made two rotations.

The two Bilbao midfielder Unai Vencendor and Oscar de Marcos were replaced by Mikel Vesga and Alex Berenguer.

The collaboration of four Barca players led to Antoine Griezmann's sweet goal in the 74th minute. The French passport striker opened fire with his left foot from the center of the Bilbao goal, after receiving Oscar Mingueza's pass. Score 2-1 for the superiority of Los Azulgrana.

Koeman looked happy after his team scored the second goal. The man from the Netherlands clearly did not want to fall back for the second time against Athletic Bilbao. The reason is, Barca was humiliated by Bilbao in the Spanish Super final on 18 January.

Bilbao have a golden opportunity in the 80th minute through Yuri Berchiche's cross scheme. It's just that the ball that plunged into Ter Stegen's goal was unable to be headed by striker Inaki Williams.

Barca's game began to slack off entering the 82nd minute. Bilbao also tried this opportunity to continue to dismantle the Los Cules defense area.

Koeman added a defender by bringing in Clement Lenglet to replace Griezmann in the 83rd minute. There were no more goals created until the end of the match the score 2-1 for Barca remained.





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