The Athletic Bilbao Courier
Match8 May 2027
Athletic Bilbao tear Osasuna apart
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 6‑0 against Osasuna, and it could have been more.
Match10 May 2027
The season ends: position 4 for Athletic Bilbao
The last league game has been played and the table has stopped moving: 79 points. The summer begins on Monday, and so does the argument about what it all meant.
Player ratings10 May 2027
A brace, and Nico Williams takes the afternoon — 8.56
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Nico Williams provided it, and the 8.56 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad10 May 2027
A day Oihan Sancet will not forget
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Player ratings10 May 2027
No sign of nerves from Yan Diomandé at 20 — 8.55
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Yan Diomandé did not need any: 8.55, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad10 May 2027
Defences have started doubling up on Nico Williams
20 goals and a season average of 7.40 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Player ratings10 May 2027
Vintage Yuri — 7.87
At 37 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.87, and nobody on the pitch better.
Squad10 May 2027
Words exchanged at Athletic Bilbao
Kepa Arrizabalaga and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad10 May 2027
A row about effort at Athletic Bilbao
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Oihan Sancet was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
In brief
- Match Oihan Sancet among the goals in a wild afternoon
- The terraces The crowd has taken to Yan Diomandé
- Market One of our own: Daniel Díaz joins the Athletic Bilbao first team