Champions Barcelona suffer defeat on the opening day of the La Liga season after a sublime winner by Aritz Aduriz hands Athletic Bilbao victory.
A sublime winner by 38-year-old striker Aritz Aduriz handed Athletic Bilbao victory over champions Barcelona on the opening day of the La Liga season.
"Sometimes football is so beautiful and when you least expect it a ball like that comes to your feet and goes into the net," he said.But the visitors - without the injured Lionel Messi - struggled to impress despite fielding newThere were no such concerns for Aduriz and Athletic after the striker - who will retire at the end of the season - threw himself into the air and acrobatically volleyed past Marc-Andre ter Stegen to earn his side a first league win over Barcelona since 2013.
"When I saw him shaping to shoot I knew exactly what would happen, it's an area of the game he utterly dominates and I wasn't surprised by the strike at all," said Valverde.Do Barca need Neymar? La Liga's big questions"He is the first to arrive at training and the last to leave. You might lose some sharpness with age but you never lose your hunger or your competitiveness," he added.
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