Klippybo
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Txetxu Rojo
1965-82
Forward
541 apps, 67 goals
Txetxu spent his entire career with Athletic and also managed the club twice so is a club legend. He didnt win any trophies while playing for Athletic despite having such a long career although he did win 18 caps for Spain, scoring 3 goals.
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SEPTEMBER
Lineup - Simon, Capa, Yeray, Martinez, Yuri (Rodrigues), Guevara, Raul Garcia*, I.Williams (N.Williams), Muniain (Unai Lopez), Cordoba, Villalibre
Derby day joy for us as we beat Real Sociedad 3-1. Villalibre netted his first goals of the season with his 2nd being a 25 yard lob over their keeper and Cordoba netted for the 3rd game running as we easily beat our fiercest rivals. ****** off that we conceded an injury time goal though.
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UEFA Champions League Group A
Lineup - Simon, Capa, Yeray, Martinez, Rodrigues, Guevara, Raul Garcia (Vencedor), I.Williams, Muniain (Unai Lopez), Cordoba, Villalibre (N.Williams)
We returned to European football and got taught a lesson here. We deserved a point but Inter scored 2 first half goals and sat back and we couldnt find a way past them. Frustrating but this was always going to be a tough fixture for us.
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Lineup - Simon*, Capa, Yeray, Martinez, Rodrigues, Guevara, Raul Garcia, I.Williams (N.Williams), Muniain, Cordoba, Villalibre
An astounding result and performance. We were truly terrific and thumped Atletico Madrid who only lost 1 league game last season and finished 17pts ahead of us. Kevin Rodrigues finished from a narrow angle to put us ahead in the first half and we were clinging on but when Villalibre broke away to score it was game over and Koke headed into his own goal to gift us a 3rd.
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Lineup - Simon, Capa (Areso), Yeray, Martinez, Rodrigues, Guevara, Raul Garcia (Sancet), I.Williams, Muniain, Cordoba (Berenguer), Villalibre
We maintain our 100% start to the season with a narrow victory over Alaves. Villalibre could have had a hat-trick as he had an early goal disallowed and a late penalty saved.
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Lineup - Simon, Capa, Yeray, Martinez, Rodrigues (Berenguer), Guevara, Raul Garcia*, I.Williams (N.Williams), Muniain (Sancet), Cordoba, Villalibre
Another victory and another clean sheet!!! Villalibre scored another 2 goals as he has started the season on fire and Ander Capa scored with a fine individual effort. Unfortunately for us Villalibre went off injured in the last minute and he is out for 3-4 weeks.
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UEFA Champions League Group A
Lineup - Simon, Capa*, Yeray, Martinez, Rodrigues (Yuri), Guevara, Raul Garcia (Sancet), I.Williams, Muniain, Cordoba, N.Williams (Serrano)
Another stupendous result as we thrash Ajax. My big dilemma here was who to start up front and I put faith in young Nico Williams and he duly put us ahead in the 1st minute. His brother then had us 2 up at half time and the 2nd half was a procession. Capa amazingly scored 2 terrific goals and the only downside was the last minute goal conceded.
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SUMMARY
Well its fair to say that this month was well above expectations!!!! On paper we had some tough games with a derby against Real Sociedad, Atletico Madrid away and Inter and Ajax in the Champions League with a couple of other matches to boot. In the end we won all but one very convincingly. In the league we won all 4 matches - Sociedad were beaten 3-1 before we rocked up to play Atletico Madrid and we beat them 3-0. To follow that up we defeated Alaves and Espanyol which means we top the league with 6 wins out of 6, with 5 clean sheets and our next match is away to Valencia who also have a perfect start to the league campaign.
In the Champions League we were beaten 2-0 away against Inter Milan which was a tad harsh but then we thumped Ajax 5-1 in a terrific performance so that has us in good stead to qualify.
Looking at the league table the big 3 are all struggling so its vital that we take advantage of this but I fully expect Real Madrid especially to come back to form. Barcelona? Maybe not.
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PLAYER OF THE MONTH
ASIER VILLALIBRE
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LA LIGA