La Liga - Athletic Bilbao VS Valencia

ahead of them oan sanset first start for Alvaro jalo inaki Williams and leading the line Gorka gurua gurua who was not in the standing 11 for the trip to Barcelona he was on the bench as is niiko Williams today on the bench for the Bas let's hear from their manager anesto Val who's been speaking ahead of kickoff we have only played two games so we are doing fine there's still a long way to go so far we are beting the results from last season we tied againsta at home and lost against Barcelona at the stadium our goal is to stop the parallels today because we also died when you are not winning there's always the goal to collect three points and today we have a chance we expected quite a lot from Athletic Club this season uh young exciting Dynamics Team with a a great manager at the helm um haven't quite seen it yet from Athletic Club in their opening two matches but maybe tonight is a is a chance for them to get their first win yes um yes as the coach was saying it's it's a moment for them to like push the gas a little bit you e they've lost their two matches so far this season of Valencia they took the lead in both of those games against bar and shelo Ruben Baraka wanted a Winger he was looking for a Winger he's brought in Luis Roka put him straight into the starting 11 as well they need to start picking up Point yeah yeah it was a good start of the of the two games for Valencia but what you were saying is exactly the the main thing about Valencia today is rafao playing wide finally with rioa Ando Lopez playing in the in the winds is important for Rafa to play alongside uro up front he also taga coming into the team replacing J me last campaign playing on On LAN at bayi and the double pivot is gamon instead of of jaera more defensive approach alongside pepelu well let's see if those small glimpses of of good football from Valencia we saw mainly against Bara playing at home they can keep it today at some for 90 minutes but I don't think it it will be easy for them let's take a look at the head-to-head battle that we've picked out for this game and we focused on the two Strikers the two main number nines ugodo and Gorka Guru they were two of the top scoring Spaniards in La Liga EA Sports last season I think it's fair to say that quite a lot of people were surprised that ugodo managed to get 13 goals last season he'd only scored one the previous campaign everybody was surprised that gor Guru feta managed to get 14 goalss terrific goal hold from both of these Strikers um interesting forwards being produced by these are not typical maybe Spanish not necessarily technical good Runners good at jumping good in the air in a moment where the season just started right and we've seen like this conversations all the time about well players are not Fe yet or they're not at the best capacity so when you have players that perhaps technically they obviously extremely good but like they bring other things that have to do more with their physicality it seems like sometimes they need a little bit more time to just uh pick up their Pace but but yeah I think it's a very interesting head tohe and very similar players and different in there in their way um but I think these are going to be players that are going to be giving more to the teams the more the season passes um but yeah hopefully it's going to be a good start for for them specifically for for atle I feel um this is going to be the game for them to start moving forward but I also I agree with Baraka when he was saying like you know apart from what has happened in these two games do see the same thing I think there's very interesting about Valencia that are going to come together uh very soon uh before we go our player to watch for this game is U footballer making his first start for Athletic Club having been signed in the summer Alvaro jalot who um is a player you might not know too much about because he was born in Madrid then he moved to the B country played in football teams youth teams in the B country then went to Braga and played in braga's Youth Academy before exploding into their first team and being signed by Athletic Club last season and joining now so he certainly want to watch out for yeah yeah and he's playing his best position left a player in my opinion he might just need to improve when taking decisions but he still young the C Club of our friend Carlos car let's see how he can he can perform in La Liga but it's a great addition for for atletic Club he might have been the replacement of Nico William now they have another option with B with hyaki with jalo and Nik they have a very very deep scad yes keep your eye on Alvaro making his first start for Athletic Club this evening in that game against Valencia at San mes we just about run out of time we'll leave you with that game Athletic Club against Valencia but remember goal goes in between V the lead and leganes we will bring you coverage and show you that goal scored here on La Liga live my thanks to R and Manu for joining us here in the Studio we'll be back at halim with analysis of the opening 45 minut e e e e e e e e [Music] [Music] [Music] Wednesday night action begins in Bill b where it is slightly overcast and there has been a shadow cast Over the season so far of both of the teams in action it does remain early in the campaign but the points all for Athletic Club and Valencia has certainly left room for improvement tough picture and an un three both looking for their first win whil the visitors are still to register points in 20124 2025 after taking one point from their first two matches Athletic Club are back at Su this evening having pushed football club Barcelona to the Limit this past weekend they are being tipped for Champions League football but need to set things up in terms of results not easy some of the injury problems they're experiencing as for Valencia a limited budget and the most youthful Squad in the league make the task a tricky one for full season in The Dugout for they had Barcelona on the ropes on Match day one before suffering a fight back at M then they were overturned on the road byto they disappointing showing rotations TI this the typical early season strip as some added spice to this one is one of the League's most historic fixtures with a new look as of late Athletic Club against Valencia kicks off at 7:00 I'm Bishop joined by Mano viira for this one Manu it's difficult to know what to expect from these two teams in terms of their final result this season what we can expect tonight is plenty of intensity hello dunan yes plenty of intensi is through that boat teams didn't have the start of the Season we all expect both are winless not showing a great image probably but last campaign and both were having a great campaign mainly the host lookas samame is beautiful this is a classic feature of the spanic of the Spanish football and I'm really looking forward for for this game let's just have a listen to the athletic fans before a look at the starting lineups [Music] well a party atmosphere around about 10 minutes ago there were still fans making their way in it is an end of August encounter now for aide who brought some joy to SZ last season with their win in the CER Del re a long awaited Trophy rtic Club Aid zabala the goalkeeper for that cup campaign start between the six today Bo gets his debut on the left y Vivan and DeMarcos complete the defense har gizar and Pros the double pivots jalo s inaki Williams and gor goretta complete the first 11 today a couple of Home debuts for some exciting players for uh in a way by a couple of the absences yich unavailable today fora Val and that means the highly touted ad boo is included at left back today we've seen the Athletic Club L it we've seen the Valencia Captain pepo these are the players who join him now Georgie madash in goal more on him in a little while vul TGA mosa and jzos Vasquez in the back line ahead of them pepelo and gamon in the middle Diego Lopez and new signing Luis Roka either side and up top Otoro with the new signing to return e for Val back on loan from Silla It is rfir Well Oscar dearcos takes on the captain's AR another campaign for him have been expected maybe to move on to past just new or hang up his boots at the end of last season he's here for Just One Last Ride and he will be skippering Athletic Club tonight this game as we say comes in the aftermath of both sides failing to pick up a win in in the opening two games difficult fixtures uh this one will be a tough one as well we can't predict intensity in the dress room he and his assistants and the players were all insisting play like they did here last season when they had a very positive showing Athletic Club going from left to right Valencia in The All White Strip going from right to left about to get this under two in La Li EA in this busy 15 20 minutes into there are some of the new arrivals SPO was actually picked up in January from o this is his first opportunity to shine the game is go a roar goes up as the fans supporting Los Leones today make their presence and immediately we have a clash of heads last one of the because of Jose scarer maybe the other player who took the hits indeed it was oh just that little push from gam KN set into MOS and man looks both players suffering yeah yeah it's a it's a clash of of trains 20 seconds into the game they might be still a little bit Co is is difficult with those knocks in in your head let's hope both our Rivals and set very very strong what we can say about Christian mosa s seems okay let's hope Christian mosa is all right now he's been checked by by the doctor but not a good start to to have this strong impact the referee telling Sunset to go and check by the doctors of course Sunset the main concern he appears to have cut his elbow on the grass not drawn from that e e bench he is available today but S A KN against Barcelona means he's out of the starting lineup yeah had a a tricky summer we all know about the noise around he's staying in in Bilbo or not short period of of holidays as many players that went to to play the Euros or the or the cop America his summon is been he been tricky and probably didn't have look e e e e e e e was dropped by R after a red car and he was it was a then it was difficult for for h to all of us comes a free kick mamash goes for the punch away it's not completely cleared as that one Loops over off the crossbar and then headed over the top on the followup golden opportunity for Athletic Club Sun set off the rebound can only head over a specul attempt there from inaki we'll see maybe from the whether it was a shot or an attempted cross I think it was intentional Tri just sure he like no especially if you say that this is the m [Music] is one of the options to come on in the second half maybe terms of sideline players Valencia were waiting right until the last on search he cannot he has not featured CH Dominic Fran Perez and MTAR diabi are out for Athletic Club yri per gim all with very degrees of injury problems the middle of the game I saw it's lag saw the thing everybody's also everybody's n is also e back Hill from [Applause] William he's been overshadowed as of late inaki Williams by his younger brother who's one of the sensations of Spanish football inaki Williams has it all as well including longevity had that long long record four consecutive games in the Liga and not being missed having contributed in some capacity he's a real Talisman for this side his way on Sunset making the run down the right it's a foot race for the ball Vasquez follows Sunset turns it's cut into the middle played towards space but moscara is able to hold up Gorka G seter enough to stop him from breaking through got a set in the striker whove scored 14 times in the Le last season yes L start of wura this season I think so far is all about oet playing very well in between line we saw Last Action dropping white he looks sharp in a very good moment of of Forman that compact block of Baraka he always tries maybe very good option for for atletic cl to try and find between lines in set oh thrown back into the defense keeps it in play that was a bad choice from Vasquez you're in danger here for the strike closed down but the deflection is headed byaki Williams athletic just keep on finding a way through and also hopefully no cight issues here let's hope on that pirates game um we don't have any issue with there I don't trust this I don't trust e then minut position is going to be any like let me jump off and see what going you know sometimes it just pulls it's used to putting on two devices and sometimes does that when it's more between three e is it stiff yeah yeah know for the quality of your page rather