Valencia managed to beat Bilbao and this was an important victory for Valencia to continue to improve its position in the standings. Bilbao, who came as the visiting team and were favored enough to win, actually had to suffer defeat, even though they could have widened the distance from Barcelona one step further if they had won against Valencia. Hugo Durro was the only goal scorer in this match and Valencia was lucky to be able to maintain this lead until the match was over.