Madrid (AFP)

Barcelona spilled of entrance! Private Lionel Messi convalescent, then injured Luis Suarez, the outgoing champion lost to Bilbao on an incredible chisel veteran Aritz Aduriz (1-0), Friday in the opening match of the Spanish Championship. What to sharpen Barcelona's lust for Neymar ...

At the San Mamés stadium, the Catalans found the amounts by Suarez (32nd), released moments later touched on a calf, then by Rafinha (44th). And while the Frenchman Antoine Griezmann was disappointing for his debut in the official match with Barça, Aduriz (38) scored with a scissor acrobatic soon after coming into play (89th), just days after announcing that he would retire at the end of the season.

This defeat on the wire is already putting pressure on the Catalan club and its coach Ernesto Valverde, very weakened at the end of last season despite the conquest of a second Liga in two years.

According to the results of his rivals, Barça could accuse from the first day three lengths behind Real Madrid who moves Saturday in Vigo (17:00 / 15:00 GMT) and on Atletico, which receives Sunday Getafe (22:00 / 20:00) GMT).

- Difficult negotiation -

This is not ideal for starting a season and this will undoubtedly influence the sporting choices of the Catalan leaders, engaged in a difficult negotiation with Paris SG to try to bring back Neymar, gone with a crash in 2017 in exchange for 222 EUR million. The operation was also complicated Friday since Barça has accepted an "agreement in principle" to lend to Bayern Munich the Brazilian Philippe Coutinho, which could have been a possible currency in the "Ney". .

While the Catalans are busy in the offices, the truth of the ground was particularly cruel for them Friday. The first 20 minutes, in particular, were very complicated between the pressing Basque and the accelerations of Iñaki Williams.

With a shot stretched 25 meters (7th), then a shot angle shot (15th), the center forward of Bilbao forced the Barcelona goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen to two decisive parries.

Captain Messi, insufficiently recovered from a muscular problem on his calf, was sorely lacking. And his accomplice Suarez quickly had to leave the lawn (34th), not to mention the absence of Coutinho, preserved in the rostrum to avoid derailing his loan in Munich ...

- Febrile Griezmann -

In short, Valverde had to compose: he launched a trio very inexperienced in the midfield with Sergi Roberto, Carles Aleña and the Dutch rookie Frenkie de Jong. If the latter has floated, the two young Catalans have pained. And when Suarez was injured, Valverde unsuccessfully repositioned Griezmann in the axis of the attack and launched the Brazilian Rafinha.

The latter was perhaps the best Barcelona, ​​forcing the goalkeeper Unai Simon to divert on his own cross a wound shot (44th). Rafinha also found the base of the post, well launched by the French Ousmane Dembélé (52), author of an encouraging match.

All the reverse of Antoine Griezmann, who has struggled to exist and wiped constant whistles because of his past as a player of Real Sociedad, the rival club of Athletic. Febrile, the rookie rookie of the summer of Barcelona missed a control (5th), dared a charge too brutal on an opponent (12th) and heels for nobody in the surface (17th). And he did not convert any of his frank opportunities (70th, 83rd).

For Aritz Aduriz, however, the story is beautiful: last week, he announced he wanted to hang up the crampons at the end of this season, when he will be 39 in February.

And having already made a hard time at Barça with a hat-trick one night of the Spanish Supercup in 2015 (4-0), the Basque veteran kicked off his final campaign with a magnificent chisel that knocked the champion down. title of his pedestal.

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