Our retinas still have the imprint of that impressive clash between Athletic and Barça in the previous round, and now Real Madrid head to San Mamés.
Alfredo Relaño reacts to Real Madrid's 1-0 LaLiga win over Athletic Club on Wednesday, in a game the Basques deserved to take something from.
At the end of the game, the Athletic Club players jumped euphorically and embraced as Marcelino beamed with the scenes resembling that of a title win.
Alfredo Relaño discusses the evolution of the Spain team under Luis Enrique, noting that the head coach has moved on from a promising generation that didn't deliver.
A clash between Athletic and Granada in LaLiga staged at San Mamés at this time of the year would have passed off inadvertently as just another game.
There were nasty scenes at Cornellá on Saturday, when Athletic Bilbao's Iñaki Williams was subjected to monkey chants by a section of the Espanyol crowd...
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