Athletic Club 3-2 APOEL: result and report
Europa League · Thursday 16 February 2017
Result
Athletic Club 3-2 APOEL
Europa League · Thursday 16 February 2017, 20:05 UTC · half-time 1-1
Athletic Club 3-2 APOEL: match report
Athletic Club beat APOEL 3-2 in the Europa League on Thursday 16 February 2017. The half-time score was 1-1.
Georgios Efrem opened the scoring in the 36th minute. Athletic Club's goals came from an own goal by Giorgos Merkis (38'), Aduriz (61') and Iñaki Williams (72'). APOEL scored through Georgios Efrem (36') and Giannis Gianniotas (89').
Discipline: Athletic Club received 2 yellow cards; APOEL received 4 yellow cards.
Going into the game Athletic Club were 44th on 10 points from 6 and APOEL 40th on 12 points from 6. This fixture belongs to an earlier Europa League season and is kept for reference.
Athletic Club lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and APOEL in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Igor De Camargo of APOEL (7.8), ahead of Iñaki Williams (7.3).
Going into the match Athletic Club's last five read D-W-W-L-W and APOEL's W-L-W-L-W.
Key events
- 9'Yellow card · Georgios Efrem
- 13'Yellow card · Giorgos Merkis
- 25'Yellow card · Raúl García
- 36'Goal · Georgios Efrem
- 38'Own goal · Giorgos Merkis
- 48'Yellow card · Aymeric Laporte
- 52'Yellow card · Giannis Gianniotas
- 61'Goal · Aduriz
- 64'Yellow card · C. Yamberé
- 72'Goal · Iñaki Williams
- 89'Goal · Giannis Gianniotas
Team news
Athletic Club line-up (4-2-3-1)
Gorka Iraizoz Moreno, Aymeric Laporte, Óscar de Marcos, Mikel Balenziaga, Yeray Álvarez, Beñat, Iturraspe, Muniain, Iñaki Williams, Raúl García, Aritz Aduriz
APOEL line-up (4-4-2)
Boy Waterman, Zhivko Milanov, Giorgos Merkis, Nikolas Ioannou, Cédric Yambéré, Georgios Efrem, Vinicius, Nuno Morais, Giannis Gianniotas, Facundo Bertoglio, Pieros Sotiriou