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CNET
25-05-2025
- Sport
- CNET
La Liga Soccer: How to Livestream Athletic Bilbao vs. Barcelona From Anywhere
Barcelona wraps up a treble-winning season in Spain with a tricky trip to San Mamés Stadium on Saturday to face Athletic Club. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services to use to watch the game as it happens, wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if the match isn't available there. Barça suffered a rare defeat last weekend in its final home game of the campaign as it was beaten 3-2 by Villarreal at Estadi Olympic Lluis Companys. Head coach Hansi Flick will be eager to return to winning ways as his side wraps up what has been a truly memorable season. While Bilbao will have been hugely disappointed to have narrowly missed out on the chance to play this year's UEFA Europa League final on home turf, Ernesto Valverde's team can still take pride in a strong season that has seen it secure a top-four finish and qualification for next year's Champions League. Athletic Bilbao hosts Barcelona at San Mamés Stadium on Sunday, May 24. Kickoff is set for 9 p.m. CET local time, making it a 3 p.m. ET or 12 p.m. PT start in the US, an 8p.m. BST start in the UK and a 5 a.m. AEST kickoff in Australia on Monday morning. Head coach Hansi Flick has led Barcelona to a historic treble, with the Catalan giants having won the Copa del Rey and Spanish Super Cup, as well as La to watch Athletic Bilbao vs. Barcelona in the US without cable This match is available to stream in the US via ESPN Plus, which has live English- and Spanish-language broadcast rights for La Liga in the US. How to watch La Liga from anywhere with a VPN If you're traveling abroad and want to keep up with all the Spanish soccer action while away from home, a VPN can help enhance your privacy and security when streaming. It encrypts your traffic and prevents your internet service provider from throttling your speeds, and can also be helpful when connecting to public Wi-Fi networks while traveling, adding an extra layer of protection for your devices and logins. VPNs are legal in many countries, including the US and Canada, and can be used for legitimate purposes such as improving online privacy and security. However, some streaming services may have policies restricting VPN usage to access region-specific content. If you're considering a VPN for streaming, check the platform's terms of service to ensure compliance. If you choose to use a VPN, follow the provider's installation instructions, ensuring you're connected securely and in compliance with applicable laws and service agreements. Some streaming platforms may block access when a VPN is detected, so verifying if your streaming subscription allows VPN usage is crucial. James Martin/CNET ExpressVPN Best VPN for streaming Price $13 per month, $100 for the first 15 months (then $117 per year) or $140 for the first 28 months (then $150 per year) Latest Tests No DNS leaks detected, 18% speed loss in 2025 tests Network 3,000 plus servers in 105 countries Jurisdiction British Virgin Islands ExpressVPN is our current best VPN pick for people who want a reliable and safe VPN, and it works on a variety of devices. It's normally $13 a month, but if you sign up for an annual subscription for $100 you'll get three months free and save 49%. That's the equivalent of $6.67 a month. Note that ExpressVPN offers a 30-day money-back guarantee. 61% off with 2yr plan (+4 free months) See at ExpressVPN Livestream Athletic Club vs. Barcelona in the UK Premier Sports is showing a minimum of five live matches per week from Spain's top league on its Premier Sports 1 and 2 channels, as well as its dedicated La Liga platform. This game will be shown exclusively live on Premier Sports 1, Premier Sports Player and La Liga TV. Premier Sports Premier Sports Watch La Liga in the UK from £8 A subscription to just Premier Sports' dedicated La Liga channel costs £8 a month. You can also get the channel via a full subscription to Premier Sports, giving you access to all of the network's channels, which have the UK broadcast rights to Scottish Premiership matches, BKT United Rugby Championship and Investec Champions Cup rugby, plus NHL and Nascar. A full Premier Sports subscription costs £10 per month for Sky and Virgin TV customers. You can also get Premier Sports through Amazon Prime Video as an add-on for £15 a month. See at Premier Sports Livestream Athletic Bilbao vs. Barcelona in Canada TSN is the rights holder for live coverage of La Liga matches in the region, with select fixtures being shown on its linear channels and a wider selection of games being shown on its TSN Plus streaming platform. This match is set to be shown on TSN Plus. TSN TSN Plus Carries La Liga matches live TSN Plus is a direct-streaming service that costs CA$8 a month and also offers coverage of PGA Tour Live golf, NFL games, F1, Nascar and the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments. See at TSN Livestream Athletic Club vs. Barcelona in Australia Footy fans down under can watch La Liga matches live on BeIn Sports, which holds the live broadcast rights in Australia for Spanish top-flight matches. This match is set to be shown on BeIn Sports Connect. Quick tips for streaming La Liga using a VPN
Yahoo
24-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
🚨 Ruiz de Galarreta extends his contract with Athletic
This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇪🇸 here. Athletic Club has announced the renewal of Iñigo Ruiz de Galarreta for two seasons, until June 30, 2027. The homegrown player has played 74 games with the first team in his last two seasons and is a key piece in Ernesto Valverde's scheme. 🎙️ #Galarreta2027"Estoy muy contento de poder alargar dos años más este sueño y con ganas de disfrutar cada día" "Hace poco estaba en Segunda y la temporada que viene podré escuchar el himno de la Champions en el césped de San Mamés, algo que ni me podía imaginar" — Athletic Club (@AthleticClub) May 24, 2025 'A while ago I was accumulating years in the Second Division, which is also very difficult and I valued it a lot, and next season I'll be able to hear the Champions League anthem on the San Mamés pitch, something I couldn't even imagine', he stated. 📸 Juan Manuel Serrano Arce - 2024 Getty Images
The Guardian
22-05-2025
- Sport
- The Guardian
‘He's the right man': Fernandes backs Amorim to stay at Manchester United
Bruno Fernandes has insisted Ruben Amorim should remain as Manchester United head coach despite Wednesday's Europa League final defeat to Tottenham, while the captain admitted he would leave if the club wants to 'cash in' on him. United lost the final at San Mamés Stadium to Brennan Johnson's 42nd-minute winner. Amorim stated afterwards he would leave the 'next day' if the board and fans lose faith in him. Fernandes was asked what he would say to Sir Jim Ratcliffe if the minority owner was minded to accept the offer. He said: 'It's not my decision but I do think the manager is the right one and I don't think that it will be a better person to come into the job and do the job. 'I know it's difficult to understand that, it's difficult to see that. But I still do think that he's the right man to lead the club. I do think that the club is in a situation where it's easier to get a different [head coach] in because the results haven't been there. But as my other teammates said, and I repeat myself, I do think he's the right man.' Fernandes was asked why he is so sure of Amorim. 'He has done a lot of good things,' he said. 'We know that the manager is looked at by the results. Obviously we see more than that as players. We know for everyone it will be about him bringing back the positivity in the club. To try to bring the club back to fight for trophies, fight for the big trophies. And we all agree that he's the right man.' Fernandes has reportedly attracted the interest of Real Madrid. The playmaker was asked how determined he is to remain as part of a squad rebuild. He said: 'I have always been honest. I've always said I will be here until the club says to me that it's time to go. I'm eager to do more, to be able to bring the club to the great days. In the day that the club thinks that I'm too much or it's time to part ways, football is like this, you never know it. But I've always said it and I keep my word in the same way. 'If the club thinks it's time to part ways because they want to do some cashing in or whatever, it's what it is and football sometimes is like this. The players have said that this season has been unacceptable.' Sign up to Football Daily Kick off your evenings with the Guardian's take on the world of football after newsletter promotion Of the final he said: 'It's very sad. We wanted to win more than anything in this final. It's very sad because we've done some very good things in this competition until today. But [the final] was the day that mattered, the most important day of the competition. It was the day we could have been in the history of the Europa League, but it's not like that. And football is cruel, and it's been our turn to lose.'
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The Independent
21-05-2025
- Sport
- The Independent
Who will win the Europa League final? Have your say as Tottenham Hotspur face Manchester United
Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United meet in Bilbao tonight for a showdown that could salvage either side's season. Spurs arrive at San Mamés for the Europa League final, desperate to end a 16-year trophy drought and 'change the narrative' of a faltering campaign. Ange Postecoglou's men have impressed in Europe, overcoming Bodo/Glimt and Eintracht Frankfurt with resilience and tactical flexibility. 'We want to change something,' said captain Son Heung-min, echoing the mood within the Spurs camp. United, by contrast, approach the final with colder conviction. Ruben Amorim's side dismantled Athletic Club 7-1 in the two-legged semi-final and are seeking a third trophy in two years. But Amorim played down the stakes, saying, 'This final changes nothing,' in keeping with his blunt assessment of United's domestic struggles. While Tottenham's players speak of dreams and redemption, United lean on history and habit. 'It's about winning, plain and simple,' Bruno Fernandes said ahead of kick-off. Both sides are injury-hit: United miss key defenders, Spurs are without their midfield core. But both have inverted their Premier League form in Europe – Spurs becoming composed and clinical, United rediscovering belief. It all comes down to this: a one-country final between two flawed teams chasing very different kinds of validation. So who will rise in Bilbao – the team that dreams of winning, or the one that expects it?
Irish Times
20-05-2025
- Sport
- Irish Times
Europa League final: Trophy at stake for underperforming premiership clubs Spurs and United
Europa League final: Tottenham Hotspur vs Manchester United, San Mamés, Bilbao, Wednesday, 8pm, Premier Sports 1 & TNT Sports 1 Gatwick on Tuesday morning was full of Spurs fans. They were in the Pret a Manger, they were in the Pizza Express, they were in the Wagamama, but mostly they were standing gawping at the destination board, which featured a baffling number of Vueling flights to Bilbao, a squeezing of the schedule that led to inevitable delays and confusion. The queue for the three open booths at passport control in Bilbao was a vast python of white shirts, speckled with the occasional tree green or purple. The bus into town was almost entirely Spurs, with a handful of businessmen and a bewildered older couple returning from their holidays, who admitted they had no idea their city was hosting a big European final. In fairness, it has not felt much like a European final. This is 16th against 17th in the Premier League, a battle of two sides who have won one of their past 10 league games. As such, it has been regarded as an indictment of the inequitable distribution of resources in the modern world and something from a Victorian freak show, simultaneously an English boot grinding its studs forever into the face of Europe and a bout between a blind bear and a pair of three-legged badgers. None of which is entirely unfair, and yet it is a big European final, as the mass migration of excited fans attests. That a final could comprise two such struggling teams is undeniably funny, but the game matters. For Tottenham, this could be a first trophy since 2008 and a first European trophy since 1984; for United , it could, inexplicably, be a third piece of silverware in successive seasons, and a seventh European trophy. Neither side will need reminding that their ostensibly more successful local rivals have won nothing this season. READ MORE Almost more importantly, in the remorselessly capitalistic environment of the modern game, victory on Wednesday would secure passage to next season's Champions League , with all the financial benefits that will bring. It could rival the Championship playoff final as the most valuable game in English football. The way potential qualification for the Champions League has been touted as a means of salvaging dismal seasons is itself indicative of the way football has been financialised. A trophy may have meant the world for Crystal Palace on Saturday, but for at least some at United and Spurs (although not Ange Postecoglou, as he was determined to point out), the Europa League feels like a means to a more lucrative end; winning silverware to generate the revenue that will allow them to generate more revenue. The game, as Danny Blanchflower nearly said, is about glory; it is about doing things in style and with a flourish, about going out and creating sustainable revenue streams for the future. Manchester United head coach Ruben Amorim's problems in defence are not as acute as first feared, with Leny Yoro and Diogo Dalot back in training. Photograph: Pierre-When Postecoglou arrived at Tottenham, he seemed a natural fit. His attitude to the game had been shaped by Ferenc Puskás, who coached him at South Melbourne, and there was a stylistic congruence between Arthur Rowe's Tottenham of the early 1950s, which established the push-and-run style, and the ethos of Hungarian football in the same period. For all Postecoglou's cussed insistence that the way he plays is the way he plays, Spurs' best performances this season have been in away games when they have played in a style that would not be described as Angeball. When they beat Manchester City 4-0 at the Etihad, it was by playing on the counter and controlling the game in the second half. The Europa League wins at Eintracht Frankfurt and Bodø-Glimt were almost like tactical plans devised by José Mourinho, stifling their opponents and assuming superior quality or physicality would tell in the end. Which presents Postecoglou with a conundrum. Tottenham have beaten United three times this season: twice with classic Angeball and once in a grim scrap when neither side played remotely well. Does he go with what worked at Old Trafford in the league and at home in the Carabao Cup or does he go with what has worked in Europe and opt for something more cautious? He may not have much option. Spurs do not have the natural advantage they had over Frankfurt and Bodø-Glimt, but neither are they likely to have their three most creative midfielders with James Maddison and Dejan Kulusevski out and Lucas Bergvall a significant doubt. That probably means Yves Bissouma and Rodrigo Bentancur sitting with Pape Matar Sarr driving forward. It had looked as though Postecoglou's team without a midfield would be facing Ruben Amorim's team without a defence, although with Leny Yoro and Diogo Dalot back in training the injury situation at United is not as acute as it had appeared. If there is an explanation for the disparity in United's European and domestic form this season, it is probably that the lower pace of the Europa League allows players such as Casemiro and Harry Maguire to play under less immediate physical pressure. The dilemma for Postecoglou, then, is how to press them without losing the defensive structure that saw Spurs through the past two rounds. Despite all the noise around it, the talk of finals of the undeserving and the economic rewards on offer, this is, almost despite itself, a big final. Somebody will win a trophy and whatever else that means, it will be celebrated on the night and go down in posterity. Football is made of this. – Guardian
