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.
Luckily, Valencia managed to get a goal from H Duro's kick in the 60th minute. If he hadn't used the pass as well as possible it wouldn't have been a goal and maybe the match would have ended in a draw. This victory shows that a team as big as Atletic Club can be defeated by a team that is stronger than its opponent.
Barcelona has the opportunity to catch up and take third place because when Atletic Club is beaten, the points with Barcelona become the same.