Josu Urrutia: 'Return leg in Spain will help us'

Athletic Bilbao president Josu Urrutia hopes that second-leg home advantage can help his side overcome Napoli in their Champions League playoff tie.

By Matt Law, Football Editor | 09 August 2014

Athletic Bilbao president Josu Urrutia believes that his side will benefit from having the return leg of their Champions League playoff against Napoli in front of their own supporters.

The first leg of the tie will take place in Naples on September 19, before Napoli travel to Bilbao for the second leg on September 27.

"We'll play the return at San Mames which gives us a slender advantage," he told reporters at a press conference.

"Personally, I am quite glad that we will be at home for the return but that doesn't guarantee you anything in this tournament."

The two teams were paired together in the draw on Friday.

amp_article__170245 : Database Data restored...  : 

last updated article - 2014-08-10 00:48:37: 

html db last update  - 2021-03-11 08:58:25 : 


ex  - 7200 : read : read cache amp html

Click here for more stories about Josu Urrutia

Click here for more stories about Athletic Bilbao

Share this article now:

Read more about Josu Urrutia Football

Follow @SportsMole for the latest breaking news stories, and follow @sm_headlines to get every headline from Sports Mole

Recommended Next on SM

Urrutia: 'Napoli did not want us'

Chelsea 'make official approach for preferred managerial target'

Premier League Table

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	PTS
C	Real Madrid	38	29	8	1	87	26	61	95
2	Barcelona	38	26	7	5	79	44	35	85
3	Girona Girona	38	25	6	7	85	46	39	81
4	Atletico Madrid Atletico	38	24	4	10	70	43	27	76
5	Athletic Bilbao	38	19	11	8	61	37	24	68
6	Real Sociedad	38	16	12	10	51	39	12	60
7	Real Betis Betis	38	14	15	9	48	45	3	57
8	Villarreal	38	14	11	13	65	65	0	53
9	Valencia	38	13	10	15	40	45	-5	49
10	Alaves Alaves	38	12	10	16	36	46	-10	46
11	Osasuna	38	12	9	17	45	56	-11	45
12	Getafe	38	10	13	15	42	54	-12	43
13	Celta Vigo	38	10	11	17	46	57	-11	41
14	Sevilla	38	10	11	17	48	54	-6	41
15	Mallorca	38	8	16	14	33	44	-11	40
16	Las Palmas Las Palmas	38	10	10	18	33	47	-14	40
17	Rayo Vallecano	38	8	14	16	29	48	-19	38
R	Cadiz Cadiz	38	6	15	17	26	55	-29	33
R	Almeria	38	3	12	23	43	75	-32	21
R	Granada	38	4	9	25	38	79	-41	21