Nine, souls: a dramatic 0:1 for Barcelona over Athletic Bilbao in San Mames - voila! sport

The 25th round of the Spanish league reached its climax tonight (Sunday) when the leader Barcelona was hosted in San Mames by Athletic Bilbao and returned from it with a precious 0:1, the second week in which they won on the edge of a goal after a Sergio Busquets assist to Rafinha and the gap from Real Madrid again Standing at 9 points, a week before the El Clasico next Sunday at Camp Nou.

Even earlier, the fourth Real Sociedad settled for a 1:1 at Mallorca, but the fifth Betis also ended with the same result against Villarreal, while Sevilla escaped from the red line thanks to an important 1:2 against Almeria.

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in great shape.

Rafinha celebrates in San Mames (Photo: GettyImages, Juan Manuel Serrano Arce)

Athletic Bilbao - Barcelona 1:0

Xavi and his players survived another thriller, achieved their ninth 0:1 of the season and maintained a 9-point lead over Real Madrid exactly one week before the big El Clasico at Camp Nou.

If last week Barcelona beat Valencia 0:1, in a game in which Gabi and Robert Lewandowski were missing, among other things, and had to play with ten players following Ronald Araujo's suspension, tonight in San Mames they got Gabi and Lewandowski back, for the second week in a row they took the lead from Sergio Busquets' goal Rafinha owes a lot of thanks to Marc-Andre ter Stegen, the team's goalkeeper who saved it in the closing minutes, as well as to the screen referees who disallowed an equalizing goal by the Basques in the 87th minute following a hand touch in the center circle, while stealing the ball on the way to an equalizer that was disallowed from a kick by Ignacy Williams

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Rafinha swings his right leg and kicks into the net (Photo: Reuters)

Second goal for Rafinha in a week, again from Busquets' cooking (Photo: GettyImages, Juan Manuel Serrano Arce)

the progress of the game

2nd minute: Torres received a ball from the right, swung his leg and sent a sharp shot near the crossbar and out.

Good chance for Barcelona in the opening.

17th minute: A deep ball towards Lewandowski found him alone in front of Agirsbala, who reacted excellently, went down to the ball and prevented the Pole from scoring.

Minute 33: Ignacy Williams kicked a strong ball and Stegen headed to the corner, from which Raul Garcia hit the crossbar.

What a mistake by the Basques.

Just before halftime, Barcelona took the lead.

Second week in a row that Busquets cooks for Rafinha, who swung his right leg and from the box kicked into the far corner of Agirsvala, a ball that was only stopped in the net.

The linesman waved a flag to the diver, the screen referees overturned the decision and the goal was confirmed.

52nd minute: Balde quickly passed two Bilbao players and picked up a measured ball to the center of the box, Lewandowski powerfully hit a ball that went inches near the crossbar and went out.

71st minute: Berenger got into a very dangerous situation, the best of Bilbao, but he kicked Ter Stegen's crossbar and Barcelona saved.

79th minute: A double pass by the Basques led to a tremendous kick by Moniain outside the area, Ter Stegen with a big leap over the top.

Excellent minutes of Athletic pressing to get an equalizing goal.

Ignacy Williams was sent one-on-one against Ter Stegen who this time could no longer save, but the screen referees disallowed the goal following a touch by Munianin when he grabbed a ball to De Jong in the middle of the field.

Minute 90+3: Barcelona survives almost against all odds.

First, Ter Stegen prevented a goal from Mauri, Marcus Alonso prevented an equalizer in the return ball when he stood on the goal line and kept away.

breaking a drought of almost five months.

Lee Kang-in (Photo: GettyImages, Alex Caparros)

Mallorca - Real Sociedad 1:1

A fourth game without a win for the fourth in the table, which lost its advantage on the ground where it won in its last two visits.

David Silva set up Carlos Fernandez who beat Frederic Rajkovic already in the third minute and celebrated his first league goal of the season, but Mallorca, despite the lack of their top goalscorer and the yellowed Dat Moric, managed to equalize through the legs of the Korean Lee Kang-in in the 50th minute.

A goal by visiting Robin Le Norman was disallowed in the 61st minute and teammate Mikel Marino was sent off in the final minute, five minutes after Mallorca almost completed a turnaround with Amat Andiaye's cross.

An alarming moment.

Yassin Bono (Photo: GettyImages, Fran Santiago)

Sevilla - Almeria 1:2

A critical victory for Jorge Sampaoli's team, who were in 19th and penultimate place and jumped up to 13th thanks to these three precious points in the bottom battle.

Almeria, which is also below the red line and has not won an away game in La Liga since February 2015 (16 attempts), actually took the lead with a quick goal by defender Sergio Aquiema in just 100 seconds, but Sevilla recovered despite a serious injury to goalkeeper Yassin Bono who is on a stretcher ( 37).

Argentina's Lucas Ocampos equalized from the penalty spot in first-half added time and compatriot Erik Lamela completed the turnaround with a strike in the 73rd minute, 10 minutes after coming off the bench and precisely after two huge Almeria misses.

First league goal after about five months.

Erik Lamela (Photo: GettyImages)

Villarreal - Betis 1:1

Both teams missed an opportunity to get closer to fourth place Real Sociedad and the status quo was maintained.

The 40.5-year-old Pepe Reina miserably dropped Rodri's cross and saw Borja Iglesias tap home from a meter in the 38th minute to give Betis the lead, but Yermi Pino equalized in the 57th minute after a wonderful header from Ramon Tratts and a goal confirmed by VAR.

Betis fifth with 42 points, Villarreal sixth with 38.

what a mistake

Borja Iglesias pushes after the gift from Pepe Reina (Photo: GettyImages, Aitor Alcalde)

• Spanish League 2022/23

  Group	games	victories	draw	losses	gates	points
  1	Barcelona	25	21	2	2	8-47	65
  2	Real Madrid	25	17	5	3	19-50	56
  3	Athletico Madrid	24	13	6	5	19-38	45
  4	Real Sociedad	25	13	6	6	24-33	45
  5	in flight	25	12	6	7	26-33	42
  6	Villarreal	25	11	5	9	24-29	38
  7	We saw it	25	9	8	8	28-29	35
  8	Osasuna	25	9	7	9	24-22	34
  9	Athletic Bilbao	25	9	6	10	27-33	33
  10	Majorca	25	9	5	11	26-22	32
  11	Celta de Vigo	25	8	7	10	34-29	31
  12	Girona	24	8	6	10	38-38	30
  13	Seville	25	7	7	11	40-29	28
  14	Valladolid	25	8	4	13	35-19	28
  15	Espanyol	25	6	9	10	39-31	27
  16	Cadiz	25	6	9	10	37-20	27
  17	Valencia	25	7	5	13	28-28	26
  18	Getafe	25	6	8	11	34-25	26
  19	Almeria	25	7	4	14	44-29	25
  20	Alecha	25	2	7	16	49-19	13

The 25th round in the Spanish league will close with the meeting between Atlético Madrid and Girona (Monday, 10:00 p.m.).

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