Athletic Club 5-3 Genk: result and report

Europa League · Thursday 3 November 2016

Result

Athletic Club 5-3 Genk

Europa League · Thursday 3 November 2016, 18:00 UTC · half-time 3-1

Athletic Club · Genk · Europa League predictions

Athletic Club 5-3 Genk: match report

Athletic Club won against Genk 5-3 in the Europa League on Thursday 3 November 2016. It was 3-1 at half-time.

Aduriz opened the scoring in the 8th minute. Athletic Club's goals came from Aduriz (8'), Aduriz (24', penalty), Aduriz (44', penalty), Aduriz (74') and Aduriz (90+4', penalty). Genk scored through L. Bailey (28'), Wilfred Ndidi (51') and Tino-Sven Sušić (79').

Discipline: Athletic Club received 1 yellow card; Genk received 5 yellow cards.

Going into the game Athletic Club were 110th on 3 points from 3 and Genk 10th on 14 points from 9. 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 Genk in a 4-1-4-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Aritz Aduriz of Athletic Club (10.0), ahead of Yeray Álvarez (8.0).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Athletic Club wins, 0 draws and 1 for Genk.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 6'Yellow card · Tino-Sven SušićGenk
  • 8'Goal · AdurizAthletic Club · 1-0
  • 24'Penalty goal · AdurizAthletic Club · 2-0
  • 28'Goal · L. BaileyGenk · 2-1
  • 38'Yellow card · IturraspeAthletic Club
  • 42'Yellow card · Bojan NasticGenk
  • 43'Yellow card · Omar ColleyGenk
  • 44'Penalty goal · AdurizAthletic Club · 3-1
  • 51'Goal · Wilfred NdidiGenk · 3-2
  • 74'Goal · AdurizAthletic Club · 4-2
  • 79'Goal · Tino-Sven SušićGenk · 4-3
  • 87'Yellow card · Alejandro PozueloGenk
  • 90+3'Yellow card · Wilfred NdidiGenk
  • 90+4'Penalty goal · AdurizAthletic Club · 5-3

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Athletic Club 0, draws 0, Genk 1.

Team news

Athletic Club line-up (4-2-3-1)

Iago Herrerín, Aymeric Laporte, Óscar de Marcos, Mikel Balenziaga, Yeray Álvarez, Iturraspe, Muniain, Susaeta, Mikel Rico, Raúl García, Aritz Aduriz

Genk line-up (4-1-4-1)

Marco Bizot, Jakub Brabec, Bojan Nastic, Omar Colley, Timothy Castagne, Tino-Sven Sušić, Thomas Buffel, Alejandro Pozuelo, Wilfred Ndidi, Leon Bailey, Ally Samatta