One of the toughest matches of any season for Barcelona has arrived: the Blaugrana travel to the Basque Country tonight for a meeting with Athletic Bilbao, and this definitely will not be an easy game for the La Liga leaders.
Athletic have always been a tough team to beat at home, but over the last few years they’ve become a powerhouse thanks to one man: current Barcelona manager Ernesto Valverde, who had a lot of success with Bilbao and made them one of the top teams in the league.
Now Valverde is with the Blaugrana, of course, but Athletic remain a strong, tough team that plays with passion and are very well supported by their amazing home crowd, and there’s no way they’ll make things easy for Valverde and his men tonight.