📊 Form Guide

Athletic Bilbao

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Athletic Bilbao will want to continue from where they left off last time out with a 0-1 La Liga victory vs Sevilla.

In that match, Athletic Bilbao managed 39% possession and 9 shots at goal with 4 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Athletic Bilbao was Yeray (84'). At the other end, Sevilla had 11 shots at goal with 4 of them on target.

It has been a rare occasion in recent games that Athletic Bilbao haven’t conceded. It will be a concern for them that Athletic Bilbao have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, giving up 6 goals in the process. That trend might not be sustained into this game, of course.

A look at their previous results shows us that Athletic Bilbao:

• have not lost a league tie with Osasuna in their last 3 games.
• haven't been defeated in their previous 11 home league matches. It's been impressive.

Osasuna

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After being defeated in their last game at the hands of Barcelona in La Liga action, Osasuna will be aiming to make amends here.

In that game, Osasuna had 26% possession and 4 shots at goal with 0 on target. Barcelona had 19 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. Ferrán Torres (11'), Dani Olmo (21') and Robert Lewandowski (77') scored for Barcelona.

The stats tell the story, and Osasuna have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 matches, conceding 10 goals in all. Defensively, Osasuna have clearly had some problems.

Looking at their past form shows that Osasuna:

• haven't won against Athletic Bilbao when they've played them away from home in the last 4 league games. They really have not been travelling well at all.
• are undefeated by Athletic Bilbao when they've played them away from home in the last 2 matches in the league.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking at the statistics for their head to head duels stretching back to 04/04/2023, there has been little to separate the clubs with Athletic Bilbao winning 2 of those games, Osasuna 2 and 2 being draws after 90 minutes of play.

A combined total of 18 goals were scored between the two sides in these games, with 9 of them for Los Leones and 9 being from Los Rojillos. That’s an average goals per game figure of 3.

📋 Team News: Athletic Bilbao

We think that Los Leones should line up in a 4-2-3-1 system this time, utilising Unai Simon, Andoni Gorosabel, Aitor Paredes, Yeray Alvarez, Yuri Berchiche, Mikel Jauregizar, Benat Prados, Inaki Williams, Alex Berenguer, Nico Williams and Maroan Sannadi.

🗞️ Team News: Osasuna

There’s a good chance that Los Rojillos appear most likely to make use of a 5-3-2 system by sending out Aitor Fernandez, Alejandro Catena, Flavien Boyomo, Jorge Herrando, Jesus Areso, Abel Bretones, Jon Moncayola, Lucas Torro, Aimar Oroz, Ruben Garcia and Ante Budimir.

✨ Prediction

It looks to us that Athletic Bilbao should get amongst the goals against Osasuna, who will be up against it to score.

We reckon that it will be a fairly comfortable 2-0 winning margin for Athletic Bilbao at full-time.

Peter Guest, 16:04 30/03/2025