Real Sociedad vs Athletic Bilbao Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Real Sociedad

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Real Sociedad, following on from their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after the 0-1 Copa del Rey victory versus Athletic Bilbao.

In that game, Real Sociedad had 58% possession and 6 attempts on goal with 1 on target. The only player to score for Real Sociedad was Mikel Oyarzabal (63'). On the other side, Athletic Bilbao had 5 attempts on goal with 2 on target.

Real Sociedad have struggled with their forward play in more recent games. Their sum of goals stands at just 4 against opposition teams over their last six matches. In those games, Txuri-urdin have also seen the number of goals scored against them come to 8.

Going into this one, Real Sociedad have not been beaten in the league by Athletic Bilbao in their previous 2 games.

Athletic Bilbao

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Looking at their form, and Athletic Bilbao have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, seeing opposing sides hit 6 goals in all. In defence, Los Leones just haven’t been too solid at all. That being said, it remains to be seen whether such a trend might be sustained in this upcoming match.

Pre-game facts show that Athletic Bilbao:

• have not won against Real Sociedad when having played them away from home in the previous 3 matches in the league.
• have not won away from home in their last 3 matches in the league.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Checking on their past head-to-head clashes stretching back to 28/04/2018 tells us that Real Sociedad have won 5 of these games & Athletic Bilbao 1, with the tally of drawn results standing at 0.

A sum of 17 goals were shared by the two clubs in this period, with 11 for Txuri-urdin and 6 netted by Los Leones. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.83.

ℹ️ Team News: Real Sociedad

There’s just the sole fitness concern for the Real Sociedad gaffer Imanol Alguacil to be concerned with from of an almost fully healthy group. Luca Sangalli (Knee Injury) won’t play.

📰 Team News: Athletic Bilbao

With a fully injury-free squad available to choose from, Athletic Bilbao manager Marcelino García Toral doesn’t have any fitness concerns at all ahead of this clash.

💡 Prediction

For this match, we think that Athletic Bilbao should have enough to find the net against this Real Sociedad lineup, but that probably shouldn’t be enough to avoid a loss.

We reckon that it will be both teams to score in a 2-1 victory for Real Sociedad after 90 minutes. Should be a good one.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Renata Leite, 23:23 02/04/2021