Basque-ing in Bilbao

[gthame1992]

Screenies for Ross Barkley (Starts At Everton), James Forest (Starts At Glasgow Celtic) and Gary Hooper (Starts At Glasgow Celtic).

 

[ZebraheadRob]

Ahhhh!! Not bad not bad! Thank you ))

 

[Klippybo]

Screenies for Ross Barkley (Starts At Everton), James Forest (Starts At Glasgow Celtic) and Gary Hooper (Starts At Glasgow Celtic).

Neither have moved.
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[Klippybo]

(the Basque flag)

NOVEMBER

Bilbao through in Europe
Malaga thrash Real Madrid 4-1
Espanyol and Las Palmas change managers
Spain lose 2 friendlies

Some decent results were to be had in November. Good wins over Valencia and Atletico Madrid plus an amazing comeback against Sporting Lisbon as we were 3 down after 72min! Youngster Alfredo is really developing nicely and will be in the first team squad next season methinks. Perez Villaroya and De la Torre are doing fine jobs also.

Athletic Bilbao 4-2 Valencia
San Jose 2, Garcia 2(1pen)

UEFA Champions League Group G
Sporting Lisbon 3-3 Athletic Bilbao
Sanz 2, Llorente

Granada 2-2 Athletic Bilbao
Garcia, Aitor Herrera

Copa del Rey 4th Round 2nd Leg
Athletic Bilbao 2-0 Pontevedra
Sanz, Paz (og)

Athletic Bilbao 2-0 Atletico Madrid
San Jose, Perez Villarroya

UEFA Champions League Group G
Panathinaikos 0-1 Athletic Bilbao
Alfredo

PLAYER OF THE MONTH
CESAR AZPILICUETA

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SPAIN

Friendlies

Spain 2-3 England
Garcia, Fabregas

Italy 2-1 Spain
Garcia (pen)

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[stevenUK1]

Looking good at the top of the table. Loving this story. You looking at winning everything as well as an unbeaten season?

 

[Klippybo]

Looking good at the top of the table. Loving this story. You looking at winning everything as well as an unbeaten season?

Unbeaten season never even entered my head............. UNTIL NOW!!!! lol. Gonna post an update in a few minutes, dont think I got beat in December...

 

[wonderkid360]

I have a feeling You've won the title already...

 

[Klippybo]

DECEMBER

Bilbao beat Sao Paulo to win Club World Cup
10pt lead at the top with a game in hand
Benfica are up next for us in Europe
Donadoni now Sporting Gijon manager - his 5th job in Spain

A good month, winning every game but not very convincingly it has to be said. I suppose young players can be inconsistant so maybe thats why we are winning by the odd goal rather than by 3 or 4!

Real Valladolid 2-3 Athletic Bilbao
Aitor Herrera 2, Ugalde

UEFA Champions League Group G
Athletic Bilbao 4-1 Shakhtar Donetsk
Llorente 3(1pen), Barandiaran

Athletic Bilbao 2-0 Mallorca
Vadillo, Garcia (pen)

Espanyol 1-2 Athletic Bilbao
Muniain, Ander Herrera

Athletic Bilbao 2-1 Getafe
Muniain 2

FIFA Club World Cup
Semi Final
Toluca 0-3 Athletic Bilbao
Llorente (pen), Ugalde, Cidoncha

Final
Sao Paulo 1-2 Athletic Bilbao
Ugalde, Aitor Herrera

PLAYER OF THE MONTH
OSCAR UGALDE
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[Klippybo]

NEW SIGNING - ANTOINE GRIEZMANN

JANUARY

Bilbao set undefeated record (36 games) then lose next game
Club stalwart Oscar De Marcos leaves for Villarreal for £4m
Antoine Griezmann arrives from FC Porto for £2m
Francisco Jesus loan deal from Villarreal made permanent for £2.3m
Aitor Herrera claims both World Player of the Year gongs again

We keep chugging along however unconvincing the performances are we still keep winning (for the most part)! Got a great win away to Real Madrid but then 2 games later we lost to Barca unfortunately. In the Copa del Rey new signing Antoine Griezmann scored on his debut against his first club Real Sociedad in the derby!
I saw Griezmann was transfer listed for £2m so snapped him up after I got a bid for Oscar De Marcos. De Marcos was a great player for me who played everywhere on the pitch for me at one point except gk and cd! In total for Bilbao he made 246 apps scoring 38 goals under my management.

Copa del Rey 5th Round
1st Leg
Real Zaragoza 1-1 Athletic Bilbao
Aitor Herrera

2nd Leg
Athletic Bilbao 4-0 Real Zaragoza
Muniain, Ekiza, Aitor Herrera, Aurtenetxe

Real Madrid 1-2 Athletic Bilbao
Muniain 2

Copa del Rey QF 1st Leg
Real Sociedad 1-1 Athletic Bilbao
Griezmann

Real Betis 0-1 Athletic Bilbao
Muniain

Copa del Rey QF 2nd Leg
Athletic Bilbao 4-0 Real Sociedad
Aitor Herrera, San Jose, Ander Herrera, Susaeta

Barcelona 4-2 Athletic Bilbao
Vadillo, Ander Herrera

Copa del Rey SF 1st Leg
Real Madrid 1-1 Athletic Bilbao
Ekiza

PLAYER OF THE MONTH
ANDER HERRERA

(isnt he looking young for being 29 lol)

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[stevenUK1]

JANUARY

Bilbao set undefeated record (36 games) then lose next game
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Gutted! Was so hoping for an unbeaten season. Everything looking good though.

 

[Klippybo]

FEBRUARY

2 slip ups but 2 thrashings dealt out
Valencia await in Copa del Rey final
Garcia dropped - Sanz takes over up front
Spain beaten by Malia

Decent month. Went 2 down to Levante before battling back to draw. Had over 30 attempts at goal and still Garcia couldnt score so I gave Sanz a go against Real Madrid to great effect! Two fantastic 6-0 wins in the league was let down by another 2-2 draw when we came back from 2 down again but this time we had a goal disallowed also. 12pts clear!

Athletic Bilbao 2-2 Levante
Vadillo, San Jose

Copa del Rey SF 2nd Leg
Athletic Bilbao 2-1 Real Madrid
Sanz 2

Sporting Gijon 0-6 Athletic Bilbao
Sanz 2, Vadillo, Ekiza, Muniain 2

Athletic Bilbao 6-0 Villarreal
Muniain, Sanz (pen), Ekiza, Vadillo 3

Osasuna 2-2 Athletic Bilbao
Sanz 2

Real Zaragoza 0-2 Athletic Bilbao
Sanz, Ekiza

UEFA Champions League 1st Round 1st Leg
Benfica 0-2 Athletic Bilbao
San Jose, Ugalde

PLAYER OF THE MONTH
JOSE CARLOS SANZ
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SPAIN

Friendly
Mali 3-2 Spain
Aitor Herrera, Busquets

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[Klippybo]

MARCH

Derby day defeat for Los Leones
Bilbao knock out Benfica - Arsenal up next in quarter finals
Only 1 decent player in this years youth take
10 man Spain thrash San Marino

The good parts of the month were over shadowed by the disaterous derby match against Real Sociedad - at least Garcia scored at last! The rest of the month was really comfortable to be honest. This years youth intake was pretty poor with one potential decent player (4 stars) - unfortunately he is an AMC which of course is Aitor Herrera's position and I have about 6 other decent young AMCs in the youth ranks already!

Real Sociedad 3-1 Athletic Bilbao
Garcia (pen)

Athletic Bilbao 2-0 Malaga
De la Torre, Griezmann

Athletic Bilbao 1-0 Las Palmas
Sanz

UEFA Champions League 1st Round 2nd Leg
Athletic Bilbao 3-1 Benfica
Barandiaran, Mongongu (og), San Jose

Sevilla 0-3 Athletic Bilbao
Sanz, Perez Villarroya, Ekiza

PLAYER OF THE MONTH
STEPHANE RUFFIER

(at a push)


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SPAIN

Euro Championship Quals Group J
Spain 6-0 San Marino
Bojan, Aitor Herrera, Muniain 2, Sanz, Amici (og)
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[wonderkid360]

That was a bad loss to Mali

 

[kandersson]

6-0 vs San Marino how dare you XD

still a fantastic story mate

 

[Klippybo]

That was a bad loss to Mali

A crazy game. When I picked my team Sergio Ramos and Azpilicueta required a rest and they were my only 2 right backs in the squad. Played Ekiza there and he got a rating of 5.8. Mali were 3 up at half time and had a goal disallowed but at the end of the game the stats showed they only had 2 shots on goal as we scored 2 own goals while we had about 25 shots on goal!

 

[Klippybo]

APRIL

Bilbao secure league title with 6 games left to play
Arsenal knock out Bilbao in Champions League
Man Utd thrash Barca 7-0 in Champions League
Mallorca relegated

Lost our hold of the Champions League trophy with an away goals defeat to Arsenal. Pretty gutting to be honest. Real Madrid and Barcelona also fell at the same stage. We wrapped the league up with a win against Mallorca and will field a lot of youngsters in the final few league games.

Athletic Bilbao 4-1 Espanyol
Aitor Herrera 2, Moravek (og), Vadillo

Valencia 0-5 Athletic Bilbao
Aitor Herrera, Vadillo, Sanz 3(2pens)

UEFA Champions League QF 1st Leg
Arsenal 0-0 Athletic Bilbao

Athletic Bilbao 4-0 Real Valladolid
Barandiaran 2, Sanz, Cidoncha

UEFA Champions League QF 2nd Leg
Athletic Bilbao 1-1 Arsenal
Muniain
(Arsenal won on away goals)

Mallorca 1-3 Athletic Bilbao
Aitor Herrera, Muniain, Mario (og)

Athletic Bilbao 3-1 Granada
Garcia (pen), Cidoncha, Santano

Athletic Bilbao 3-1 Osasuna
Garcia 3(1pen)

PLAYER OF THE MONTH
AITOR HERRERA
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[tommyd156]

Can you post a screenshot of the Man Utd vs Barcelona game please?

 

[stevenUK1]

Well done on winning the league again, easy win by the looks of things. Unbeaten season next year please - Gutting about the Champions League.

 

[wonderkid360]

Stupid arsenal!

 

[AJ0207]

Screenshot of your team please mate? Just read it from the beginning, quality.