MADRID: Barcelona was given wet time by Bilbao’s athletics but escaped from their trip to San Mames with a point when Memphis the incredible depay soared a 1-1 draw to Catalan on Saturday.
The depay found a net with half a 15-minute left-foot volley from time in Basque country for his first goal in La Liga since moving to Barcelona from Lyon.
Ronald’s side Koeman had been impressed in the first match of the post-lionel messi era when they beat Real Sociedad 4-2 last weekend, but they were lucky to depart with the point of this game.
It was a difficult night for their defense in particular, with Gerard Pique coming after half an hour and Eric Garcia was expelled at the time of cessation to drop Inaki Williams.
Former Manchester City Garcia defender reportedly received news about his grandfather’s death just before the match and struggled for 90 minutes, allowing this to Martinez to stay away from him to head in the second round.
Athletic will feel they should win despite having several key players, among them goalkeeper Unai Simon, who has not performed at the start of the season after helping Spain reach the Euro 2020 semi-finals and then the Tokyo Olympic final.
Barcelona did not change from their opening victory which meant another start to pedri, a brilliant young midfielder who also played at Euro 2020 and the Olympics and is now arranged to get a two-week vacation.
Martin Braithwaite, who netted twice against Real Sociedad, missed the initial caregiver for the visitors when he lit up after playing with the depay.
Athletics, with 11,000 fans they were allowed to enter 53,000 San Mames’s capacity for this match because of the restrictions on Coronavirus gradually loosely in La Liga, then saw Oahan Sancet turned and crashed into a shot from the Cross from 12 meters.
Pique then came to be replaced by Ronald Araujo, suggested that Koeman should not play the central defender who was reported to have struggled with a minor injury before the match.
Aruojo has a goal that was denied in the first semester stop for violations by Braithwaite, and Uruguay defender must then clean the line from Alex Berengguer just a few seconds after restarting.
Athletics are looking for revenge for their losses to Barcelona Messi in the Copa del Rey final in April and they went ahead in the 50th minute when Martinez attacked the corner very magnificently, forward in front of Garcia to divert the ball to a distant corner.
While Garcia played for Spain at the European Championship, a fellow central defender Martinez chose not to join Luis Enrique’s forces because he was not “physically or mentally” 100 percent.
Koeman responded by interesting Braithwaite and pedri and sent Sergi Roberto and Yusuf Demir, an 18-year-old Austria International signed in July with loans from Vienna Rapid.
Frenkie De Jong crashed into a blade with brilliant efforts before the depay leveled a quarter of an hour from the time, controlling Sergi Roberto’s ball on the tap and crashing into a brilliant strike past goalkeeper Julen Agirrezabala in his close post.
Garcia then denied athletics the opportunity for the last Gasp winner when he cut Williams right outside the area.
Elsewhere in La Liga on Saturday, Carlos Soler’s late penalty allowed Valencia to leave Granada in a 1-1 draw, while last season’s European League winner Villarreal was held 0-0 at Espanyol.
Mallorca which was promoted was a level with Barcelona and Valencia at four points after a 1-0 win at the Alaves with the deceased’s goal.
The champion ruled Atletico Madrid host Elche on Sunday before Real Madrid went to Levante.