The home side Elche and the visiting Atletic Bilbao failed miserably to find the back of the net in the opening game on Monday. The La Liga game ended 0-0 building up the decision weight on the next round between Elche and Atletico at Wanda Metropolitano on Sunday.
Athletic Club is set to play at home to Barca on Saturday before Elche for the tiebreaker. The 0-0 draw seemed forced on Athletic Bilbao at Elche in their first game of the 2021/22 La Liga season. The Basque giants were having a battle edge when Marcelino’s side was unable to break through with the latter’s midfielder Fidel Chaves had a late VAR call for the ball netted just before the half-hour mark to rule it out for an offside in the build-up. Inaki Williams though hyped up a long-range strike in the second, both ends were goalless when the final whistle blew.