Bilbao claims Basque derby for first victory
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October 3, 2011, Monday
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FORWARD Fernando Llorente scored a goal in each half to give Athletic Bilbao a 2-1 win at Real Sociedad in the Basque derby for its first La Liga victory of the season at the sixth attempt yesterday.
The Spain international opened the scoring in the 34th minute to give Bilbao a halftime lead. Sociedad's Inigo Martinez scored the equalizer with a long-range effort from the halfway line, but Llorente gave Bilbao's Argentine coach Marcelo Bielsa his first league win since joining the club in the offseason with his second in the 70th.
Bilbao climbed out of the bottom three to five points from six games, two behind its north-coast neighbor in ninth.
On Saturday, a stunning overhead kick from Brazilian international Julio Baptista earned Malaga a last-gasp 3-2 victory over Getafe that put it top of La Liga.
Baptista, who is known as the "Beast", hovered in the air over the penalty spot in stoppage time and lashed his shot into the top corner to leave the big-spending south-coast club on 13 points from six games, ahead of Valencia on goal difference.
A goal from Sergio Canales earned Valencia a 1-0 home win over promoted Granada earlier in the day.
Later yesterday, third-placed Real Betis (12 points) was hosting Levante, fourth-placed Barcelona (11) was at Sporting Gijon and Real Madrid (10) visited Espanyol.
In Italy, Napoli shot to the top of Serie A with a controversial 3-0 win at 10-man Inter Milan on Saturday as Claudio Ranieri suffered his first defeat in charge and was sent off at halftime.
Earlier, Bojan, Pablo Osvaldo and Simplicio were on target as fourth-placed AS Roma beat Atalanta 3-1.
Yellow card
After an end-to-end start at Inter the game turned dramatically on an incident four minutes before the break when Joel Obi was handed a second yellow card for bundling over Christian Maggio on the edge of the box.
Julio Cesar saved Marek Hamsik's resulting penalty but defender Hugo Campagnaro followed up to give Napoli the lead.
Ranieri was sent off for remonstrating with the referee as the teams trooped off at halftime. "He ruined a beautiful game," the Inter coach said. "He was not on his game. What he could get wrong, he did get wrong."
The Spain international opened the scoring in the 34th minute to give Bilbao a halftime lead. Sociedad's Inigo Martinez scored the equalizer with a long-range effort from the halfway line, but Llorente gave Bilbao's Argentine coach Marcelo Bielsa his first league win since joining the club in the offseason with his second in the 70th.
Bilbao climbed out of the bottom three to five points from six games, two behind its north-coast neighbor in ninth.
On Saturday, a stunning overhead kick from Brazilian international Julio Baptista earned Malaga a last-gasp 3-2 victory over Getafe that put it top of La Liga.
Baptista, who is known as the "Beast", hovered in the air over the penalty spot in stoppage time and lashed his shot into the top corner to leave the big-spending south-coast club on 13 points from six games, ahead of Valencia on goal difference.
A goal from Sergio Canales earned Valencia a 1-0 home win over promoted Granada earlier in the day.
Later yesterday, third-placed Real Betis (12 points) was hosting Levante, fourth-placed Barcelona (11) was at Sporting Gijon and Real Madrid (10) visited Espanyol.
In Italy, Napoli shot to the top of Serie A with a controversial 3-0 win at 10-man Inter Milan on Saturday as Claudio Ranieri suffered his first defeat in charge and was sent off at halftime.
Earlier, Bojan, Pablo Osvaldo and Simplicio were on target as fourth-placed AS Roma beat Atalanta 3-1.
Yellow card
After an end-to-end start at Inter the game turned dramatically on an incident four minutes before the break when Joel Obi was handed a second yellow card for bundling over Christian Maggio on the edge of the box.
Julio Cesar saved Marek Hamsik's resulting penalty but defender Hugo Campagnaro followed up to give Napoli the lead.
Ranieri was sent off for remonstrating with the referee as the teams trooped off at halftime. "He ruined a beautiful game," the Inter coach said. "He was not on his game. What he could get wrong, he did get wrong."
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