Barcelona vs Athletic Club Highlights, La Liga 2024-25: FCB 2-1 ATH, Barca win second consecutive match

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La Liga, Barcelona vs Athletic Club LIVE: Table

Here's how the top 5 teams of the La Liga points table looks like after the Barcelona vs Athletic Club match.

La Liga, Barcelona vs Athletic Club LIVE: Man of the match

Lamine Yamal

La Liga, Barcelona vs Athletic Club LIVE: FCB 2-1 ATH FT

Full-time statistics: Barca end the match with 65.6% ball possession and Athletic with 34.4% ball possession. Barca got a total of 13 shots and 5 of them on target. While Athletic got a total of 9 shots and 2 of them on target.

La Liga, Barcelona vs Athletic Club LIVE: Full-time

90+5' Athletic's attacks in the second half came after long breaks and rarely and with Lewy getting the second goal of the match, the visitors haven't been able to penetrate that Barca defense and now it seems a fight almost broke out with the referee showing 3 yellow cards before blowing the final whistle.

The referee signals the end of the game.

FCB 2-1 ATH

La Liga, Barcelona vs Athletic Club LIVE

90+3' Fermin is a deadly addition to the team and the oppositions know that very well. As he tries to make a run, he is taken down near the midfield.

La Liga, Barcelona vs Athletic Club LIVE

90' Barca make a number of changes with almost no time left on the clock officially.

The referee signals 5 minutes of additional time.

Eric Garcia, Gerrard, and Victor in - Marc Bernal, Balde, and Yamal out for FCB.

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88' Raphinha makes a run with a good pass from Lewandowski in the midfield but he is taken down Lekue who receives a yellow card. Barca win a free-kick far from the goal, get the ball in to Cubarsi who just couldn't get a control of the ball with a kncok to the head as well.

La Liga, Barcelona vs Athletic Club LIVE

85' With less than 5 minutes of the official time left on the clock, Barca don't look like they're in a hurry to get the game moving forward at all times. They're happy to move the ball around but Athletic are still looking to get more goals and Barca have to remember that.

FCB 2-1 ATH

La Liga, Barcelona vs Athletic Club LIVE

83' Yamal and Nico, the two youngsters have been a menace throughout the field. Nico went as deep as the end of his own half in the first half to defend. This time, Yamal does the same and he does it against his friend, Nico.

La Liga, Barcelona vs Athletic Club LIVE

81' The gameplay has slowed down a little but Barca still looking to make trouble in the final third.

Guruzeta and Herrera in - Inaki Williams and Pados out for ATH

La Liga, Barcelona vs Athletic Club LIVE

79' The goal for Lewy was coming from the very beginning of the match with two shots hitting the bar and two more saved. This time, Raphinha gets a cross in again from the left flank, reaches Pedri who gets a shot in but it's puched away by the gk but only as far as Lewy who puts it at the top of the net.

FC Barcelona vs Athletic Club LIVE: GOOOOOOOAL

75' Lewandowski with the second goal of the match for Barca.

FCB 2-1 ATH

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74' ATH on their probably third promising attack in this half of the game which ends up in a corner for the away team, taken long, it finally reaches Nico who takes a little too long to get a shot in and it ends up at the hands of MATS.

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72' Barca with another attack and Lewy with another chance. It just hasn't been his day but Lewy hasn't stopped on account of that is trying again and again to get on that scoresheet and maybe get that winning goal for Barca.

Adu Eres in - Berenguer out for ATH.

FC Barcelona vs Athletic Club LIVE

70' ATH haven't had a lot of chances in this half of the game and the ones they did, they haven't been able to make the most of it and Barca have bene able to get the control of the game back at their feet again and again.

FCB 1-1 ATH

FC Barcelona vs Athletic Club LIVE

67' Balde this time, trying to trick ATH players and get into the opposition box but he's brought down and FCB win a free-kick which reaches the other side of the field and the chance is wasted.

FC Barcelona vs Athletic Club LIVE

65' Another golden chance for Barca with a wonderful cross from Raphinha from the right flank reaching Lewy in the middle of the box but ATH gk does exceptionally well to save it.

FCB 1-1 ATH

FC Barcelona vs Athletic Club LIVE: Substitution

63' Sancet and Vesga out - Unai Gomez and Jauregizar in for ATH

Ferran Torres out - Fermin Lopez in for FCB.

FCB vs ATH, La Liga 2024-25 LIVE

61' Athletic on the attack after some time now with a shot in which didn't seem that dangerous initially but if MATS didn't get a hand on it, that could've gone in. ATH win a corner and the ball is collected easily by MATS and with that Barca go on a fast and systematically beautiful counter-attack.

FCB vs ATH, La Liga 2024-25 LIVE

59' Chaos near the Athletic half, with Raphinha, Lewy, and every Barca in the final third trying to break in the Athletic defense who are fighting to keep them away and all falling down one after the other.

FCB vs ATH, La Liga 2024-25 LIVE

57' And Barca do exactly that and Berenguer is forced to bring down Yamal on the left flank and receives a yellow card. Barca win a free-kick, gets a beautiful ball in near the far post to Lewy who was standing unmarked? He gets a shot but it hits the bar! For the second time in this game.

FCB vs ATH, La Liga 2024-25 LIVE

55' Barca with most control of the ball still and that's expected but most of the ball is still being played inside the Athletic half. However, Barca don't look like they're in any hurry. They're looking to build up play steadily.

FCB 1-1 ATH

FCB vs ATH, La Liga 2024-25 LIVE

53' Ferran Torres runs inside the box with a good pass from Raphinha near the midfield but Ferran's chip over the gk was poor and it ends up at the hands of the gk and then the linesman decides to raise the flag for offside. Torres, an important part of that attack needs to do better at finishing.

FCB vs ATH, La Liga 2024-25 LIVE

51' Berenguer determined to create something at the Barca end has done well in the last few minutes and Inaki joining him but Barca defense is doing well to keep it in control.

FCB vs ATH, La Liga 2024-25 LIVE

49' It doesn't take Barca much time to get control of the ball and get into attacking mode themselves. Yamal running through the left twice, getting some important crosses in but the ball hasn't found the back of the net at the end of it.

FCB vs ATH, La Liga 2024-25 LIVE

47' Athletic begin the second half the same way they began the first half, feet on full throttle towards the final third.

FCB vs ATH, La Liga 2024-25 LIVE: Kick-off

45' Second half begins.

FCB vs ATH, La Liga 2024-25 LIVE: Second half to begin

Welcome back to the Barcelona vs Athletic Club LIVE coverage. With the players already on the field, the second half is set to commence soon.

FCB vs ATH, La Liga LIVE: FCB 1-1 ATH HT

Half-time statistics: We go into the break with all square at the Olympic stadium. Barca have a significantly higher ball possession rate of 70.7% with Athletic having 29.3%. However, both teams have still been equally effective in front of the goal with Barca getting a total of 7 shots while 3 of them were target and Athletic getting a total of 6 shots but only one of them on target which was enough for them to make it all-square.