Genk 2-0 Athletic Club: result and report
Europa League · Thursday 20 October 2016
Result
Genk 2-0 Athletic Club
Europa League · Thursday 20 October 2016, 19:05 UTC · half-time 1-0
Genk 2-0 Athletic Club: match report
Genk defeated Athletic Club 2-0 in the Europa League on Thursday 20 October 2016. It was 1-0 at half-time.
Jakub Brabec opened the scoring in the 40th minute. Genk's goals came from Jakub Brabec (40') and Wilfred Ndidi (83'). Athletic Club did not score.
Discipline: Genk received 1 yellow card; Athletic Club received 4 yellow cards.
Going into the game Genk were 24th on 11 points from 8 and Athletic Club 105th on 3 points from 2. This fixture belongs to an earlier Europa League season and is kept for reference.
Genk lined up in a 4-3-3 and Athletic Club in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Wilfred Ndidi of Genk (8.5), ahead of Alejandro Pozuelo (8.2).
Key events
- 24'Yellow card · Aduriz
- 40'Goal · Jakub Brabec
- 59'Yellow card · Raúl García
- 64'Yellow card · Tino-Sven Sušić
- 83'Goal · Wilfred Ndidi
- 90'Yellow card · Iker Muniain
- 90+4'Yellow card · Iñigo Lekue
Team news
Genk line-up (4-3-3)
Marco Bizot, Jakub Brabec, Bojan Nastic, Omar Colley, Timothy Castagne, Tino-Sven Sušić, Alejandro Pozuelo, Wilfred Ndidi, Nikolaos Karelis, Thomas Buffel, Leon Bailey
Athletic Club line-up (4-2-3-1)
Iago Herrerín, Aymeric Laporte, Iñigo Lekue, Mikel Balenziaga, Yeray Álvarez, Mikel San José, Iturraspe, Muniain, Iñaki Williams, Raúl García, Aritz Aduriz