Ben Creasey: So no Rashford of Noble in the England squad! But Walcott is, Big Sam has had a shocker

Dave Allen: No consideration for form. Smalling hasn't had a sniff, Henderson and Antonio have been woeful and where is Barkley!?!?

Paul Rendall: Nothing really new in rest of squad should have picked a few more fresh faces instead of all the deadwood that failed in France

Artiz Aduriz drills hard and low for goal from 20 yards out but goalkeeper Marc Andre ter Stegen gets down sharply to clutch on and keep it out.

It has been a quiet 10 minutes for the hosts. They need something.

Barcelona are incensed.

Benat has flopped to the turf when the most that Denis Suarez did was breath on him.

Sergio Busquets and Luis Suarez get just as close to the referee to complain about the award of the free-kick and are given yellows for their trouble.

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Barcelona probing and poking around the edge of the Athletic Bilbao box Lionel Messi finds Arda Turan who squares into the box towards Denis Suarez.

Total panic stations in the Bilbao defence and they get lucky as Denis Suarez fluffs his shot tamely into the arms of goalkeeper Gorka Iraizoz.

Kyle: I'm a big Newcastle supporter but I'm surprised he hasn't recalled Defoe. Glad Drinkwater is called up too.

You can see why Samuel Umtiti has kept his place alongside Gerard Pique in the heart of the Barca defence despite the return to fitness of Javier Mascherano.

The former Lyon man brings the ball out of defence with a neat change of feet and spurt of pace and draws a foul in midfield.

Just a reminder that club policy at Athletic Bilbao to only have players with roots or upbringing in the Basque region.

That is an area with a population of just over two million.

That is about the same size as the West Midlands.

And they hold their own against the galaxy of galacticos at the Spanish top two.

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Las Palmas beat Granada 5-1 which saw them leapfrog Real Madrid to go top of La Liga.

Kevin-Prince Boateng scored for the second successive game for the Canary Islands outfit and Nabil El Zhar bagged two goals.

No Mark Noble, but Sam Allardyce does name the midfielder's West Ham team-mate Michail Antonio.

Since August 2015, no English midfielder has scored more Premier League goals than Antonio. Tottenham's Dele Alli has also scored 10.

Manchester United's 'forward' Wayne Rooney has been named as a midfielder. 

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Is there a player who should have been included? Are you shocked it wasn't more radical?

That goal seems to have settled Barcelona into their groove. They are stroking the ball about with sensitivity of concert pianists.

Sensual.

Inaki Williams was linked with Liverpool last season and he gives a little glimpse of his raw ability at 22 as he races away from a couple of Barcelona defenders.

He scored eight goals in 25 league games last year.

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Lionel Messi is still rocking the bleach boy look.

It is like when Robbie Williams left Take That, ditched the clean-cut stuff and hung out with the Gallaghers at Glastonbury.

It takes some getting used to.

It looks like Pep chose right in going for Claudio Bravo when he wanted a ball-playing Barcelona goalkeeper.

Marc Andre ter Stegen commits defensive hare-kare sidefooting the ball straight to Benat on the edge of the box as he attempts to play out of his own box.

Benat wallops a shot goalwards but it is straight back at Ter Stegen and catches the goalkeeper flush on the chin, deflecting away to safety.

A let-off.

Javier Eraso attempts to nudge the ball one side of Samuel Umtiti and dart around the other.

The ball hits the Barca defender on the arm though to thwart his plans. The referee decides Umtiti has leaned into that one though and brandishes yellow.

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Barcelona slice and dice the Athletic Bilbao defence with Lionel Messi picking out Luis Suarez's run and the Uruguyan squaring back inside for his partner-in-crime to poke home.

But Suarez was a smidge offside.

Ominous for the hosts though.

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The first counter attack from Barcelona and they hare forward like they have not eaten meat for a week.

Denis Suarez should play in Arda Turan outside him, but opts to shoot instead.

Wrong call and Luis Suarez lets him know all about it as the ball flies wide from 20 yards.

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Artiz Aduriz wins a corner as he hustles Samuel Umtiti out possession down by the byeline, but Athletic Bilbao cannot make anything of the corner with Aymeric Laporte being penalised for a high foot in the penalty area.

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Luis Enrique is a cool cat on the sidelines, dressed in a skinny fit sweater accessorised with salt and pepper hair.

Ernesto Valverde is a little more active in the home dug-out, up and gesticulating already.

We are off and running with Barcelona tapping the ball off the centre spot.