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.
Valencia was also quite happy because they were able to win at home against Athletic Bilbao even though before the match started Athletic Bilbao was superior. However, Athletic Bilbao had to suffer defeat in that match and it is quite possible that Athletic Bilbao will be overtaken by Barcelona again if Barcelona can win tomorrow at home to Real Betis. Now Valencia is in seventh place, but if tomorrow Real Betis is able to win at home in the match against Barcelona, of course Valencia's position will also change again.