MEXICO CITY, MEXICO.
The Barcelona manages to keep the fight for LaLiga with Real Madrid by winning 1-0 at Athletic Club Bilbao, thanks to the lonely annotation of Croatian Ivan Rakitic on matchday 31 of the Spanish championship.
From the start of the game the process was very locked with a Athletic betting because of the repercussions to do damage at the Camp Nou and the set blaugrana devoid of ideasdespite playing most of the time in the field opposite.
Lionel Messi tried to open the defence on several occasions, but the combinations with Luis Suarez and Arturo Vidal have failed to give fruitconcluding the first half scoreless.
Already in the part complementary to the tone of the meeting was not changed, although Quique Setién sought more dynamism in the field with the earnings of the young homegrown Riqui Puig and Ansu Fatihowever, the local continued to generate more danger on the arc of Unai Simón.
It was not until 71 minutes, when Ivan Rakitic, who entered to change to the 64’ by Sergio Busquets, found a ball of Messi within the visitor area and without thinking twice pulled out a powerful cross shot that beat Simon and it meant the 1-0 final.
Since about the end of the meeting, Arturo Vidal came close to extend the lead to passbut a great save from Unai Simón prevented the chilean him to be present in the marker.
With this result the Barcelona reaches 68 units, surpassing by three the Real Madrid that you will receive tomorrow at Mallorca; while the Athletic Club was left with 42 points in the tenth position of the table.
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