The Bilbao coach, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Spain-c3011.
Athletic Bilbao recently won their La Liga fixture against Real Valladolid, as they managed to run out 2-0 winners at the San Mames.
Bilbao most recently lost one of their most important players, Javi Martinez, as Bayern Munich decided to buy the Spanish holding midfielder during the summer transfer window.
The Spanish side, who were able to surprise the footballing audiences last season, have not managed to impress as this season has kicked off and Bielsa believes that his team is still unstable even though they have won all three points recently.
Without Javi http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Martinez-c24468 Bilbao are definitely going to suffer as he was their main player in the centre of the pitch. Moreover, when they didn’t have the first-choice defenders due to injury, Martinez was the man who filled in the void left by them and played
as a centre-back to save Bilbao’s season.
It was because of him that Bilbao managed to win to silver medals, Copa del Rey and the Europa League.
Bilbao faced http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Barcelona-c38604 in the Copa del Rey final and lost, and they faced Atletico Madrid in the Europa League final and a brace scored by Falcao helped the Madrid-based side win the European title.
Since Bilbao didn’t take the right start into the Spanish La Liga season, they were able to win 2-0 against Valladolid and Bielsa stated that this win should only be a starting point.
While speaking about Bilbao, Bielsa stated:
“This will be valuable if it is a starting point as for now it just represents an interruption of the sequence of two defeats.”
“There was tension in the group linked to the irregular performances, by the instability of the team. It has not been a regular summer here and that can cause concern.”
Bilbao are currently happy to keep their first-choice striker, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Fernando-Llorente-c13671, but Javi Martinez will be missed by them.
The Spanish giants will be facing Espanyol in the next La Liga fixture and Bielsa will have to make sure that his team does not suffer anymore.
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