Real Madrid which is undoubtedly the richest football team in the world suffered their third defeat of the season when they lost 1-0 to Athletic Club Bilbao in San Mames stadium. Unlike the multi-million Euro team, the Athletics does not have the star power and have also spent just 2 million Euros this season. Majority of the members of the Athletic team are from the Basque district which also explains their wonderful relationship with the fans.

There was some early action in the match and the goal from the Athletic striker Fernando Llorente in the second minute of the tie proved to be the decisive strike. The striker used the corner which was taken by Fran Yeste to score the only goal of the match which proved to be the difference between the two sides by heading it beautifully after getting the better of the Real Madrid mid-fielder Lassana Diarra. The Athletic received a tremendous amount of support from the crowd in San Mames and seemed in total control of the game right from the beginning.

Real Madrid did get some momentum in the later part of the match and Karim Benzema, the French striker even threatened to level the score just before half time. The atmosphere was electric in the second half as the crowd sat expecting a fight back from Real Madrid with Kaka and Cristiano Ronaldo looking for the equalizer. However, both Kaka and Cristiano Ronaldo looked off colour and it did make a major difference to the eventual score.