Athletic Bilbao

[Klippybo]

OCTOBER

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Malaga 3 (Portillo 17, 67, Juanmi 81)
Athletic Bilbao 3 (Iraola 19pen, Muniain 77, Aketxe 78)

An entertaining draw but it is 2 more dropped points as we just have not kicked into gear yet. We were missing a few players here and I was forced to give a rare start to Enric Saborit and Ager Aketxe.

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v

Deportivo La Coruna 2 (Alex Rubio 82, Luis Fernandez 83)
Athletic Bilbao 3 (Griezmann 4, Iturraspe 8, Susaeta 15)

Finally I managd to field a full strength side and for the first 15min we were on fire but after that we were poor and let them back into the match but we held on to the points.

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UEFA Champions League Group A

v

Athletic Bilbao 3 (Muniain 32, 90, Ibai Gomez 70)
Manchester City 2 (Aguero 16, Toure 48pen)

What a victory this is. Man City were the better team and led twice but we kept battling and levelled twice before Muniain struck an injury time winner.

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v

Athletic Bilbao 3 (Griezmann 6pen, 77, Iturraspe 28)
Real Betis 2 (Cejudo 18, Uche 59)

Iturraspe has found a bit of scoring form for some reason which is all good. Now for Muniain and Unai Lopez to get on one too.

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v

Athletic Bilbao 4 (Aurtenetxe 2, Ibai Gomez 19, Unai Lopez 44, Espericueta 61)
Getafe 1 (Rusescu 70pen)

A very nice win which was highlighted by the fact that 3 of my backups scored a goal each.

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v

Atletico Madrid 4 (Siqueira 12pen, Herrmann 32, Leo 58, 62)
Athletic Bilbao 4 (Muniain 2, Iturraspe 44, Villalibre 76, 90)

Another crazy high scoring draw as both sides went for it here. As it was my sub, Asier Villalibre, saved us with 2 goals late on.

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[TD]3-3[/TD]
[TD]Ruffier[/TD]
[TD]Iraola[/TD]
[TD]San Jose[/TD]
[TD]Laporte[/TD]
[TD]Saborit[/TD]
[TD]Espericueta[/TD]
[TD]Benat[/TD]
[TD]Susaeta[/TD]
[TD]Aketxe[/TD]
[TD]Muniain[/TD]
[TD]Guillermo[/TD]
[TD]Villalibre, Ramalho[/TD]
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[TD]Ruffier[/TD]
[TD]Iraola[/TD]
[TD]San Jose[/TD]
[TD]Laporte[/TD]
[TD]Balenziaga[/TD]
[TD]Iturraspe[/TD]
[TD]Herrera[/TD]
[TD]Susaeta[/TD]
[TD]Griezmann[/TD]
[TD]Unai Lopez[/TD]
[TD]Muniain[/TD]
[TD]Guillermo[/TD]
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[TD]3-2[/TD]
[TD]Ruffier[/TD]
[TD]Iraola[/TD]
[TD]San Jose[/TD]
[TD]Ekiza[/TD]
[TD]Balenziaga[/TD]
[TD]Iturraspe[/TD]
[TD]Herrera[/TD]
[TD]Susaeta[/TD]
[TD]Ibai Gomez[/TD]
[TD]Unai Lopez[/TD]
[TD]Muniain 2[/TD]
[TD]Benat, De Marcos, Villalibre[/TD]
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[TD]3-2[/TD]
[TD]Ruffier[/TD]
[TD]Iraola[/TD]
[TD]San Jose[/TD]
[TD]Laporte[/TD]
[TD]Balenziaga[/TD]
[TD]Iturraspe[/TD]
[TD]Herrera[/TD]
[TD]Susaeta[/TD]
[TD]Griezmann* 2[/TD]
[TD]Unai Lopez[/TD]
[TD]Muniain[/TD]
[TD]Guillermo[/TD]
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[/TD]
[TD]4-1[/TD]
[TD]Ruffier[/TD]
[TD]De Marcos [/TD]
[TD]San Jose[/TD]
[TD]Laporte[/TD]
[TD]Aurtenetxe[/TD]
[TD]Espericueta*[/TD]
[TD]Benat[/TD]
[TD]Ibai Gomez[/TD]
[TD]Griezmann[/TD]
[TD]Unai Lopez[/TD]
[TD]Muniain[/TD]
[TD]Ruiz de Galarreta, Xiker, Villalibre[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]

[/TD]
[TD]4-4[/TD]
[TD]Ruffier[/TD]
[TD]Iraola[/TD]
[TD]San Jose[/TD]
[TD]Laporte[/TD]
[TD]Balenziaga[/TD]
[TD]Iturraspe[/TD]
[TD]Herrera[/TD]
[TD]Ibai Gomez[/TD]
[TD]Griezmann[/TD]
[TD]Unai Lopez[/TD]
[TD]Muniain[/TD]
[TD]Ekiza, Villalibre 2, De Marcos[/TD]
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SUMMARY

We picked up a bit this month but we still dropped a few points in the league when we got high scoring draws against Malaga and Atletico Madrid. We did win 3 league games however and are currently sitting in 5th place but we still need to improve.

We got a fantastic victory over Manchester City in the Champions League during the month which sees us sitting pretty at the top of the group with a 2pt lead so hopefully we can stay there!!!

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PLAYER OF THE MONTH
ANDER ITURRASPE
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LA LIGA
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Andre Villas-Boas takes over at Atletico Madrid
David Moyes is the new manager of Sevilla

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B TEAM WATCH

Gernika 1-2 Bilbao Athletic
Bilbao Athletic 4-1 Barakaldo
Toledo 1-5 Bilbao Athletic
Bilbao Athletic 2-0 Mirandes
S.D. Logrones 0-2 Bilbao Athletic
Bilbao Athletic 2-0 Lanzarote

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TURKEY

UEFA World Cup Qualifiers Group 4

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Turkey 3 (B.Basacikoglu 33, M.Erdinc 74, 75)
Northern Ireland 0

Lineup -O.Kivrak, A.Ozturk, O.Toprak, S.Kaya, C.Erkin, N.Sahin, O.Ozyakup, B.Basacikoglu*, H.Calhanoglu, A.Turan (S.Kurt), B.Yilmaz (M.Erdinc)

This was the first time that I could pick my full strength side out and we did ok but it took until Erdinc came on until we made it safe. Bayern Munich winger Sinan Kurt made his debut here as did Alpaslan Ozturk.

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UEFA World Cup Qualifiers Group 4

v

Turkey 5 (S.Kaya 19, Ojog og22, B.Yilmaz 27, 87pen, Y.Malli 51)
Moldova 1 (Stadiiciuc 18)

Lineup - O.Kivrak, A.Ozturk, S.Aziz (O.Tufan), S.Kaya, C.Erkin, Y.Malli, O.Ozyakup (A.Potuk), G.Tore, H.Calhanoglu (S.Kurt), A.Turan, B.Yilmaz*​

 

[Lippo255]

Loving this mate, nice layout etc. just wish you would go easy on Deportivo!!!

 

[ozey]

iturraspe

hay. been following, been a good read. how has iturraspe been? ive signed him on my arsenal save(summer,first season) he looks like he would fit in well in my team. what role you play him?

 

[Klippybo]

Hi peeps - my game has been crashing after every game and it has been doing my head in. I get to play a game and then it crashes. Will try and fix it or see if another save comes into play.

 

[Munt]

Unfortunate that the games been crashing, been loving this story, hopefully you can get it fixed!