Goals and highlights: Barcelona 4-0 Athletic Bilbao in LaLiga

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The match ends. Barcelona 4-0 Athletic de Bilbao.

GOAL BARCELONA! Scored by Memphis Depay.

The referee adds three minutes to the match.

GOAL BARCELONA! Scored by Luuk De Jong.

Barcelona: Busquets and Aubameyang are out; Nico and L. De Jong are in.

Iñaki is encouraged with a goal-bound shot, but Ter Stegen is unhesitatingly left with the ball.

Athletic: Villalibre leaves and Iñaki Williams enters.

Barcelona: Adama leaves and Memphis enters.

Scored by Dembelé.

WHAT A GOAL FROM OUSMANE DEMBELE 🚀

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GOAL BARCELONA! Scored by Dembelé.

Yellow card for Piqué.

De Jong has the first with a shot from outside the box that goes over the visitors' goal.

Athletic de Bilbao: Vesga and Zarraga come off, Nico Williams and Dani García come on.

Barcelona: Gavi and Ferran come off; Frekie De Jong and Dembélé come on.

FERRAN AGAIN! Unai Simón saves Barcelona's second goal after a powerful shot that Ferran pulled out.

ADAMA! Powerful shot that passes close to the right post.

Yellow card for Balenziaga.

Lekue's deflection after a Ferran shot that was heading straight for goal.

Yellow card for Sergio Busquets.

Athletic de Bilbao: Yeray and Raúl García are out; I. Martínez and Sancet are in.

The second half starts

The first half ends. Barcelona 1-0 Athletic de Bilbao.

The referee adds three minutes to the first half.

Scored by Aubameyang.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang with a goal against Bilbao. He can’t stop scoring ⚡️⚡️⚡️

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GOAL BARCELONA! Scored by Aubameyang.

FERRAN! Shot on goal where Unai Simón rejects to the center, but on the rebound, Bilbao's defense moves the danger away.

Raúl García got to the byline to send in a shot-cross that Ter Stegen saved well. The visitors showed improvement.

VESGA! Powerful shot from Mikel that passes close to Ter Stegen's crossbar.

Athletic Bilbao's first arrival after a shot from the front by Zarraga that ends up being caught in two times by Ter Stegen.

GAVI! A cross into the box where Gavi was all alone, but his first-time shot goes over the crossbar.

First fifteen minutes of the match. The visitors have not been able to reach Barcelona's area.

Pedri attempted a cross into the box that no one was able to finish and the goalkeeper kept the ball.

Sergiño Dest was making a mistake by laying the ball off to Villalibre, but he sprints in to correct his mistake.

First minutes of the match. Barcelona has already reached the opponent's area twice but without much danger.

The match starts!

Unai Simón, Lekue, Vivian, Yeray, Balenziaga; Vencedor, Vesga, Zarraga, Serrano; Raúl García y Villalibre.

Ter Stegen, Dest, Piqué, Araujo, Sergio, Dani Alves, Adama, Pedri, Ferran, Aubameyang, Gavi.

It is worth remembering that these two teams have already faced each other this year in the Copa del Rey, where, after a great game by Athletic de Bilbao, the Basques eliminated Barcelona in extra time in the round of 16 of that competition by a score of 3-2.

The Athletic Club player, who suffered an injury on February 3 against Real Madrid, returns to Marcelino's squad for today's match. Nico Williams was a key player to eliminate Barcelona in Copa del Rey.

In the most recent match between the Culés and the Basques, played last August of last year, Athletic Bilbao began winning, but after a Memphis Depay goal in the 75th minute, the score was level at 1-1.

Memphis and Lenglet, who were injured, have already been medically cleared and are available to Xavi Hernandez's coach for this afternoon's match against Athletic Bilbao.

With the respective sanitary measures in place, both Barcelona and Athletic Club de Bilbao are already at the Camp Nou Stadium for the match that is minutes away from kick-off.

 

In the last five matches played between Barcelona and Athletic de Bilbao, the blaugranas have the balance in their favor with three victories, for only one draw and one defeat that occurred in August 2019.

The venue for this match is the Camp Nou stadium, the stadium that hosts the soccer matches of FC Barcelona's first team. It was built in September 1957 and is located in the city of Barcelona, Spain. It has a capacity for a little more than 99 thousand spectators. It is currently the largest stadium in the entire European continent.

With just under an hour to go until the match between Barcelona and Athletic de Bilbao kicks off at Camp Nou, can Barcelona continue their winning streak to stay in the Champions League places or will the visitors be the ones to pull off the surprise at the home of the Culés? Follow our coverage on VAVEL USA.

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Iñaki Williams| This Spanish player, who plays as a striker and sometimes as a winger, is the most important player in Athletic's offense. Williams is a player who contributes a lot up front and is quite participative, in fact, he accumulates 6 goals in the season being the top scorer of his club so far this soccer year. He has just scored in the most recent match against Real Sociedad.

Frenkie de Jong | The Dutch midfielder has stepped up in Barcelona's recent games and is responding to the demands of his coach, Xavi Hernandez. De Jong has been more decisive in recent matches and, has dared to shoot from midfield, a quality that has become more frequent at Camp Nou. He has scored in his two most recent games.

Unai Simón, De Marcos, Vivian, I. Martínez, Yuri B., Berenguer, Dani García, Vesga, Muniain, Raúl García e I. Williams.

Ter Stegen; Dest, Piqué, Araújo, Jordi Alba; Busquets, Frenkie de Jong, Pedri; Adama, Aubameyang y Ferran.

The central referee for this Barcelona vs Athletic Club will be Guillermo Cuadra; Jose Luis Gonzalez, first line; Miguel Angel Ortiz, second line.

On the other hand, the squad led by Marcelino García, has not been able to get out of the mid-table overall and although it seems far away to be in European competition positions, Athletic Bilbao must take advantage of the long road that still remains of the 2021-2022 season in LaLiga. Los Leones are coming off a resounding 4-0 win over Real Sociedad at the San Mames stadium. The rojiblancos are in eighth place with 37 points from 9 wins, 10 draws and 6 defeats.

The blaugrana squad led by Xavi Hernandez, has had a somewhat irregular start of the year and if they want to reach Champions League positions, Barcelona has to take advantage of home games to continue climbing positions. The Cules are coming off a big 4-2 win in Italy against Napoli in the Europa League so they will be looking to continue the momentum this Sunday in the home league. Incidentally, in LaLiga, Xavi's men are also coming off a 4-1 win away to Valencia. They are currently in fourth place with 42 points from 11 wins, 9 draws and 4 defeats.

This afternoon, Sunday's activity corresponding to the 26th matchday ends in the city of Barcelona with a very attractive match. The Camp Nou Stadium will host a match where two teams want to go for the three points and not leave the European competition places. On the one hand, Barcelona will need to take advantage of its home advantage against Athletic Bilbao, which wants to surprise at the home of the Cules.

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