📊 Form Guide

Athletic Bilbao

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Athletic Bilbao won’t want a repeat of their last result here following the 4-1 Europa League defeat in their last game at the hands of Manchester United.

In that match, Athletic Bilbao managed 48% possession and 11 shots on goal with 1 on target. The scorer for Athletic Bilbao was Mikel Jauregizar (31'). For their opponents, Manchester United got 11 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. Mason Mount (72', 91'), Casemiro (80') and Rasmus Højlund (85') scored for Manchester United.

An interesting theme in more recent Athletic Bilbao games is the high number of scores with a nil in them.

From their prior sextet of clashes before this one, in 5 of them a wager on both teams scoring would've lost. That kind of trend might not be sustained here, of course.

Taking a look at their past results, Athletic Bilbao:

• are unbeaten in the league by Alaves in their previous 6 matches.
• are undefeated in their last 14 league matches at home. What a fantastic run.

Alaves

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In their previous game, Alaves drew 0-0 in the La Liga match with Atlético Madrid.

In that match, Alaves had 35% possession and 8 attempts at goal with 2 on target. Atletico Madrid had 9 attempts on goal with 2 on target.

A tendency of at least one side getting a clean sheet in games featuring Alaves has become apparent of late. Looking at their last 6 outings reveals that it’s happened 5 times. In these clashes, opposing sides have managed a goal aggregate of 4 while Alaves have scored 3.

A look at their previous results shows us that Alaves:

• have not won against Athletic Bilbao when having played them away from home in the previous 7 league games. Not good.
• have not been beaten in their last 5 away league matches.

👥 Head to head

Checking on their past head to head meetings stretching back to 01/10/2021 tells us that these encounters have not been good ones for Alaves. They have not been able to get any wins whatsoever whereas Athletic Bilbao have been dominant against them, winning in 67% of those ties.

A total of 9 goals were produced between them throughout the course of those matches, with 8 from Los Leones and 1 being from Babazorros. The average number of goals per game works out to 1.5.

The previous league meeting between the two was La Liga match day 17 on 15/12/2024 when the final score was Alaves 1-1 Athletic Bilbao.

On that occasion, Alaves had 52% possession and 6 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. The scorer was Joan Jordán (67').

Athletic Bilbao had 9 shots at goal with 2 of them on target. Unai Gómez (10') scored.

The referee was José María Sánchez Martínez.

🗞️ Team News: Athletic Bilbao

In our view, Los Leones may well line up in a 4-2-3-1 system in the match with Unai Simon, Inigo Lekue, Daniel Vivian, Aitor Paredes, Adama Boiro, Mikel Jauregizar, Mikel Vesga, Alvaro Djalo, Unai Gomez, Peio Canales and Gorka Guruzeta.

📋 Team News: Alaves

There’s a good chance that Babazorros might play in a 4-2-3-1 system, starting Antonio Sivera, Nahuel Tenaglia, Santiago Mourino, Facundo Garces, Manuel Sanchez, Antonio Blanco, Joan Jordan, Carlos Vicente, Jon Guridi, Carles Alena and Kike Garcia.

⚡ Prediction

Looking at these two teams, we feel that Alaves should be able to breach the defence of this Athletic Bilbao team, although that probably shouldn’t prevent them from conceding a couple at the other end.

We’re predicting a very close game with a 2-1 win for Athletic Bilbao at full-time. It’s a very tough call.

Andre Moura, 16:03 11/05/2025