On opening night of the 2019\/20 La Liga season, Athletic Bilbao managed a 1-0 win over Barcelona, as Aritz Aduriz struck a dramatic overhead kick winner.<\/p>\n
A first half injury to Luis Suarez forced the Barca boss into a reshuffle, with Griezmann moved to a more central role.<\/p>\n
The Catalans took more of a grip of the second half after a less-than-convincing opening 45 minutes but still failed to find the breakthrough.<\/p>\n
It looks like Barcelona still haven\u2019t found a way to play without Lionel Messi<\/p>\n
The rationale of signing of Griezmann from Atletico Madrid was that the Frenchman would give Barcelona a way to play without Messi. However, Griezmann looked out of sync and unsure of his role throughout. There is still work to be done to integrate him.<\/p>\n
Inaki Williams was the man who stood out for most of the match, causing Barcelona problems until he was withdrawn for the match-winner Aduriz. That new nine-year contract is already looking like a shrewd move for Athletic Club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On opening night of the 2019\/20 La Liga season, Athletic Bilbao managed a 1-0 win over Barcelona, as Aritz Aduriz struck a dramatic overhead kick winner. A first half injury to Luis Suarez forced the Barca boss into a reshuffle, with Griezmann moved to a more central role. The Catalans took more of a grip of the second half after a less-than-convincing opening 45 minutes but still failed to find the breakthrough. It looks like Barcelona still haven\u2019t found a way to play without Lionel Messi The rationale of signing of Griezmann from Atletico Madrid was that the Frenchman would give Barcelona a way to play without Messi. However, Griezmann … Continue reading “Athletic Bilbao beats Barcelona on Opening of La Liga”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":19292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1639],"tags":[1738,124,1737],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19291"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19303,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19291\/revisions\/19303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}