Barcelona vs Athletic Bilbao

27 February 2022 · La Liga · 2021/22 · Referee Guillermo Cuadra Fernández

Full time 4 – 0

Half-time: 1–0

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang 37’
Ousmane Dembélé 73’
Luuk de Jong 90’
Memphis Depay 90+4’

Match summary

Barcelona won comfortably, 4-0 at home to Athletic Bilbao. Barcelona led 1-0 at half-time.

In the first half, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang put Barcelona ahead from a corner in the 37th minute. In the second half, Ousmane Dembélé made it 2-0 in the 73rd minute, set up by Frenkie de Jong, Luuk de Jong made it 3-0 with a header in the 90th minute, set up by Ousmane Dembélé, and Memphis Depay made it 4-0 in stoppage time, set up by Ousmane Dembélé.

The chances backed that up: Barcelona created 3.26 expected goals (xG) from 17 shots to Athletic Bilbao's 0.33 from 6.

Match stats

17 Shots 6

7 Shots on Target 3

5 Corners 0

2 Yellow Cards 1

0 Red Cards 0

3.24 xG 0.33

3.24 Non-penalty xG 0.33

8 Deep Completions 1

Key events

Barcelona Athletic Bilbao

Kick-off

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

1-0

37’

Half-time1-0

Ousmane Dembélé
Assist: Frenkie de Jong

2-0

73’

Luuk de Jong
Assist: Ousmane Dembélé

3-0

90’

Memphis Depay
Assist: Ousmane Dembélé

4-0

90+4’

Full-time4-0

Bookings

Card times are not on file for this game, so they are listed without a minute.

Barcelona

Gerard Piqué
Sergio Busquets

Athletic Bilbao

Balenziaga

How the chances added up

Running total of expected goals (xG) for each side through the match. xG rates each chance by how often similar shots are scored. A goal is marked where it was scored.

Barcelona 3.26 xGAthletic Bilbao 0.33 xG Goal

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Shot map

Every shot and where it was taken from.

Athletic Bilbao attacking Barcelona attacking

Size shows xG Goal On target Off target or blocked

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Player stats

Player	Pos	Min	G	A	Sh	xG	xA	KP
Marc-André ter Stegen	GK	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Dani Alves	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.20	2
Gerard Piqué	DEF	90			2	0.20	0.00	0
Ronald Araújo	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Sergiño Dest	DEF	90			1	0.03	0.00	0
Pedri	MID	90			0	0.00	0.05	1
Sergio Busquets	MID	89			1	0.03	0.00	0
Gavi	MID	69			1	0.42	0.02	1
Adama Traoré	FWD	84			0	0.00	0.06	1
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang	FWD	88	1		3	0.29	0.07	1
Ferrán Torres	FWD	69			5	0.74	0.42	1
Ousmane Dembélé	Sub	21	1	2	2	0.12	1.45	3
Frenkie de Jong	Sub	21		1	0	0.00	0.16	2
Memphis Depay	Sub	6	1		1	0.83	0.00	0
Luuk de Jong	Sub	2	1		1	0.59	0.00	0
Nico González	Sub	1			0	0.00	0.00	0

Player	Pos	Min	Sh	xG	xA	KP
Unai Simón	GK	90	0	0.00	0.00	0
Íñigo Lekue	DEF	90	0	0.00	0.00	0
Dani Vivian	DEF	90	0	0.00	0.00	0
Yeray Álvarez	DEF	48	0	0.00	0.00	0
Balenziaga	DEF	90	0	0.00	0.00	0
Oier Zarraga	MID	69	1	0.11	0.00	0
Unai Vencedor	MID	90	0	0.00	0.02	1
Mikel Vesga	MID	69	1	0.03	0.16	2
Nicolás Serrano	MID	90	1	0.02	0.00	0
Asier Villalibre	FWD	79	2	0.10	0.00	0
Raúl García	FWD	48	0	0.00	0.05	1
Iñigo Martínez	Sub	42	0	0.00	0.00	0
Oihan Sancet	Sub	42	0	0.00	0.08	1
Dani García	Sub	21	0	0.00	0.00	0
Nico Williams	Sub	21	0	0.00	0.00	0
Iñaki Williams	Sub	11	1	0.08	0.00	0

Starters first, then substitutes. xA is expected assists.

Before kick-off

Barcelona win 63% Avg odds 1.52

Draw 23% Avg odds 4.26

Athletic Bilbao win 14% Avg odds 6.78

Chances implied by the average closing odds, with the bookmaker margin removed.

Form going into the game

Barcelona D W W D W

Athletic Bilbao D W W L W

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Previous and next meeting

Previous meeting: Athletic Bilbao 1-1 Barcelona, 21 Aug 21 Next meeting: Barcelona 4-0 Athletic Bilbao, 23 Oct 22 All Barcelona vs Athletic Bilbao meetings

Shots, expected goals and player data from Understat. Results and odds from football-data.co.uk. Referee data before 2025/26 from the Transfermarkt datasets project.