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Athletic’s LaLiga schedule has already brought the club up against several leading sides. Looking only at completed matches, four of their opponents were among the top seven in the standings: Barça, Atlético, Sevilla and Alavés.
The demanding run has also brought mixed results. Barça, who had won their first eight matches, beat Athletic 2-0. On the opening matchday of the league, Sevilla had won 3-1 in Bilbao. Alavés, meanwhile, took a point from a 0-0 draw just before the international break.
Those fixtures show the difficulty of Athletic’s early schedule: the club have already faced four teams in the upper part of the table, including the top two. The completed-match record gives a measure of the quality of the opposition Athletic have encountered so far, without deciding what comes next in the season.
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