Athletic Bilbao vs Sporting Lisbon 3-1 Highlights 2nd leg April 2012

Athletic Bilbao will be hosting Sporting Lisbon in the Europa League semi-final 2nd leg on Thursday, 26 April 2012. On the first leg of Bilbao should recognize the benefits of Lisbon with a score of 2-1, however does not mean that the chances of Lisbon to reached the final to be larger. Llorente and colleagues Opportunities also still wide open, they are just need 1-0 to advance to the final round.

This season is pretty good achievement record for Bilbao, Llorente et al have penetrated the Copa Del Rey final and will face Barcelona, and now they have a chance to penetrate the European league final. Bilbao has never been beaten at home in the European league this season, they won four victories and three draws. Scored 11 goals and conceded 6 goals.

Sporting in the performance of on-fire to reach six victories and one draw in their last seven games. Bilbao coach Sa Pinto rate is very strong when playing at home, Pinto pointed to Manchester United who are victims of Bilbao at San Memes. United were forced to give up 1-2 and eventually be eliminated.

Sporting have a poor away record in the league of Europe this season, Insua et al only able to achieve a victory from seven European leagues away performances, 3 draw and 3 others ended with the defeat. Scored 7 goals and conceded 9 goals.

Athletic Bilbao vs Sporting Lisbon

Competition: UEFA Europa League (semi-finals 2nd leg)

Date: Thursday, 26 April 2012

Timing: 21:05 CET

Ground: San Mamés (Bilbao)

Referee:‬ M. Atkinson‎

Possible Starting XI:

Athletic Bilbao: Iraizoz, Iraola, Amorebieta, Aurtnetxe, Martinez, Susaeta, Iturraspe, Herrera, Llorente, De Marcos, Muniain.

Sporting Lisbon: Rui Patricio, Polga, Insua, Pereira, Xandao, Schaars, Izmailov, Fernandez, Capel, Elias, van Wolfsinkel.

Match Results and Highlights

[Athletic Bilbao 2-1 Sporting Lisbon]

17' [1 - 0] M.S. Laskurain
44' [1 - 1] R.v. Wolfswinkel
45' [2 - 1] I. Gomez
88' [3 - 1] F. Llorente

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Sporting Lisbon 2-1 Athletic Bilbao Highlights Goals Videos 19/04/2012

Sporting Lisbon welcome the visit of Athletic Bilbao at José Alvalade stadium to have 1st leg semi-finals UEFA Europa League on this Thursday 19 April 2012. This match will be interesting because the two teams are the strong teams from their domestic competitions. Sporting represent Portuguese Liga Sagres while Bilbao from Spanish La Liga. Both teams also the teams who eliminated duo Manchester from this competition. Sporting defensive player Daniel Carrico comes back to the fold following absent in the 2nd leg in the quarter-final tie versus Metalist because of suspension. Bruno Pereirinha and also Oguchi Onyewu resumed complete training a week ago nevertheless will not really function within the starting XI.

Marcelo Bielsa’s men defeat Man utd within the two legs in their previous 16 tie, and sent Schalke within the last round in the contest. They received 2-2 at home to Schalke 04, but nonetheless advanced 6-4 on aggregate. Bilbao got a 4-2 steer in the 1st leg, nevertheless Schalke two times revealed they were up for the battle by taking the lead via Klaas Jan Huntelaar and also Raul. The home side demonstrated excellent strength to draw level the two times, along with strikes from Ibai Gomez and also Markel Susaeta to safe the 2-2 draw.

Bilbao may also trust the come back of striker Iker Muniain, that skipped Sunday's 1-0 win having an eye trouble, in addition midfielder Carlos Gurpegui, who was simply contained in the team the very first time since a knee personal injury sidelined him within Oct. Defensive player Javi Martinez is halted, but Bielsa even now involved him the team.

Match: Sporting Lisbon vs Athletic Bilbao

Competition: UEFA Europa League (1st leg semi-finals)

Date: Thursday 19 April 2012

Timing: 21:05 CET

Venue: José Alvalade (Lisbon)

Referee:‬ J. Eriksson‎

Possible Starting XI:

Sporting Lisbon (4-4-2): Rui Patrício; Anderson Polga, E. Insúa, Daniel Carriço, Xandão; S. Arias, S. Schaars, M. Izmailov, Capel; Elias, S. Ribas.

Athletic Bilbao (4-4-2): Iraizoz; Iraola, F. Amorebieta, San José, Aurtenetxe; Javi Martínez, Susaeta, Ander Herrera, Muniain; Llorente, De Marcos.

Match Results and Highlights

[Sporting Lisbon 2-1 Athletic Bilbao]

54' [0 - 1] J. Aurtenetxe
76' [1 - 1] E. Insua
80' [2 - 1] D. Capel

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