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Match report
Football Elite
Division 1: Round 15 (setup 3, season 8)
FC Basel
v.
Athletic Bilbao
Formation:
3-4-3
Overall form:
Home form:
Roman WEIDENFELLER1Daniel ARANZUBÍA Aguado
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
19
Overall form:
Home form:
WILLIAN Borges da Silva2Andoni IRAOLA Sagarna
DANTE Bonfim Costa Santos73Jon AURTENETXE Borde
Blaise MATUIDI4MARIO SUÁREZ Mata
Stephan LICHTSTEINER5Alberto Tomas BOTÍA Rabasco
THIAGO Emiliano da SILVA67Miguel TORRES Gómez
Francisco Román Alarcón Suárez, ISCO7Markel SUSAETA Laskurain
Lukas PODOLSKI886Carlos Alberto VELA Garrido
Ezequiel Iván LAVEZZI96EDUARDO Alves da Silva
Henrikh MKHITARYAN7106Daniel PAREJO Muñoz
James David RODRÍGUEZ Rubio116OSVALDO Lourenço Filho
Mr D Spears-GellarManager
Serge GNABRY12José Manuel JURADO Marín
Alessandro FLORENZI13Mirko PIGLIACELLI
Valon BEHRAMI14Ryo MIYAICHI
Domenico BERARDI15Fernando AMOREBIETA Mardaras
Julian BRANDT16Marc ALBRIGHTON

FC Basel 3 Athletic Bilbao 1
(Half-time: 2-1, Attendance: 38,461, Stadium: St. Jakob-Park, Referee: Juan Manuel BRITO ARCEO 8)
10 Lichtsteiner, 43 Podolski, 72 WillianScorers35 Susaeta
Substitutions
Sendings off
Bookings8 Osvaldo, 30 Parejo
8Corners5
17Fouls11
8Offsides7
8Shots on6
7Shots off7
15Total shots13
3Shots saved4
54%Possession46%
Man of the match: Lukas PODOLSKI
5MARIO SUÁREZ beat a number of FC Basel players and drove an effort over.
8OSVALDO booked.
10GOAL!! A refined set-piece enabled LICHTSTEINER to slide the ball home. (1-0 FC Basel)
11EDUARDO flicked a simple chance past the righthand post.
17A penalty box scramble resulted in MARIO SUÁREZ tapping the ball wide.
24VELA's shot was well held by the 'keeper.
30A poor foul on DANTE by PAREJO results in a booking.
35GOAL!! The FC Basel 'keeper got into a muddle with a backpass from DANTE and SUSAETA was able to roll the ball into the net. (1-1)
43GOAL!! A delightful ball from MATUIDI left RODRÍGUEZ in the clear, he made the Athletic Bilbao 'keeper commit himself before nudging the ball to PODOLSKI to score. (2-1 FC Basel)
 
49A fine run was ended by a good save by the advancing Athletic Bilbao 'keeper.
55RODRÍGUEZ touched the ball through a crowd of players but ARANZUBÍA was a match for it as he dived to his left.
57A shot from PAREJO held little difficulty for WEIDENFELLER.
60A good ball from PAREJO on the left fell to VELA who sliced his effort wide.
63A lovely effort from MATUIDI scraped the outside of the post.
65WILLIAN headed wide.
65A cross from ISCO left LICHTSTEINER in lots of space but he fluffed his shot.
72GOAL!! A scuffed THIAGO SILVA shot fell to WILLIAN who made no mistake from just outside the area. (3-1 FC Basel)
84The 'keeper dived to his left to save a fierce shot from Athletic Bilbao's IRAOLA.
85A neatly crafted cross from MARIO SUÁREZ, was lashed goalbound by VELA only for the 'keeper to claw away.
87A pin-point pass fell to PODOLSKI and his right foot shot flew narrowly over.
90A looping shot from PODOLSKI was pushed round the post by ARANZUBÍA.
90+4The motionless 'keeper stared in disbelief as a backpass from LICHTSTEINER dropped just wide.