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Barcelona planned to travel to Bilbao on Friday to face its LaLiga match against Eibar in Ipurua on Saturday at noon (1:00 p.m.) . However, the call for an independence strike in response to the Supreme Court's ruling to the procés leaders has caused the Barca expedition to advance their trip one day, in anticipation that the strike can paralyze El Prat airport and put Your arrival to Euskadi on time is at risk.

The original plan of Ernesto Valverde's team was to fly to Bilbao on Friday, spend the night in the capital of Biscay and travel by bus to Eibar on Saturday morning, then return to Barcelona from Bilbao airport. The solution to the problem seemed obvious: sleep in Bilbao since Thursday. So Barça got down to work and started by going to Athletic to ask for Lezama's facilities so Valverde could train his players on Friday.

Athletic, as usual in these cases, did not put any problem. Even less taking into account the past of 'Txingurri' in the club rojiblanco and the excellent relations that it maintains with important employees of the entity and with part of the board of directors of Aitor Elizegi , despite not coinciding in time as president and coach .

The problem, however, came with the call to his reference hotel in Bilbao, the Carlton , in the city center. The response to Barça's request was that it was not possible to extend the stay to the previous night. The reason is the National Congress of the Spanish Society of Endocrinology and Nutrition, which is held in Bilbao from this Wednesday until Friday, with about 1,200 attendees. Almost full of hotel beds, not only Carlton, but all the important hotels in the capital of Biscay. It is unviable to make room for an expedition of more than 30 people.

Given the inability to spend the night Thursday and Friday in Bilbao, Barcelona has been forced to completely alter its travel plan. He will fly to Vitoria Thursday , where he will sleep both nights, train on Friday at the Alavés facilities and on Saturday morning he will travel to Eibar to play his game. The return of Valverde to Lezama will have to wait for the best occasion.

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