📊 Form Guide

Real Madrid

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Real Madrid will be hoping to return to winning ways here following a 1-2 Champions League loss in their previous game against Arsenal.

In that game, Real Madrid had 66% possession and 18 shots on goal with 3 on target. The only player to score for Real Madrid was Vinicius Júnior (67'). For their opponents, Arsenal had 11 shots at goal with 6 of them on target. Bukayo Saka (65') and Gabriel Martinelli (93') scored for Arsenal.

Matches featuring Real Madrid have tended to be entertaining ones recently with plenty of scoring being a common characteristic. Over their past six games alone, the sum of 20 goals have been scored for both sides combined (at an average of 3.33 goals per game) with 9 of these belonging to Real Madrid.

Athletic Bilbao

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Athletic Bilbao will come into the game following a 2-0 Europa League win as they beat Rangers in their last match.

In that match, Athletic Bilbao managed 56% possession and 22 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. For Athletic Bilbao, the goals were scored by Oihan Sancet (45') and Nico Williams (80'). Rangers got 7 shots on goal with 2 on target.

A run of accomplished displays from the Athletic Bilbao defensive players has resulted in their ‘goals against’ tally standing at 2 from their past 6 outings combined. During the same period of time, their own forwards have managed to score 7. That kind of pattern isn’t assured to be carried forward into this match, though.

Taking a look at their past results, Athletic Bilbao:

• have not beaten Real Madrid when they have played them away from home in the previous 19 league games. An unbelievably poor away record.
• haven't been defeated in their previous 2 league matches away from home.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking at their past head to head meetings going back to 03/02/2022 tells us that Real Madrid have won 3 of them & Athletic Bilbao 2, with the tally of drawn matches being 1.

In all, 12 goals were scored between them during those clashes, with 8 for Los Blancos and 4 created by Los Leones. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.

The last league encounter between these sides was La Liga match day 19 on 04/12/2024 when it finished Athletic Bilbao 2-1 Real Madrid.

In that game, Athletic Bilbao had 37% possession and 9 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. The scorers were Álex Berenguer (53') and Gorka Guruzeta (80').

For their opponents, Real Madrid had 10 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. Jude Bellingham (78') was the scorer.

The referee was José María Sánchez Martínez.

📋 Team News: Real Madrid

Ferland Mendy (Muscle injury), Andriy Lunin (Muscle injury), Éder Militão (Cruciate ligament tear) and Daniel Carvajal (Cruciate ligament tear) won’t be able to feature for Real Madrid gaffer Carlo Ancelotti.

In our view, Los Blancos look set to use the 4-4-2 system for the game with Thibaut Courtois, Federico Valverde, Raul Asencio, Antonio Ruediger, Francisco Garcia, Aurelien Tchouameni, Luka Modric, Eduardo Camavinga, Jude Bellingham, Rodrygo and Vinicius Junior.

📋 Team News: Athletic Bilbao

Thanks to a mainly healthy group of players, there is only a single fitness problem for the Athletic Bilbao manager Ernesto Valverde to be concerned with. Yuri Berchiche (Calf injury) misses out for this game.

It’s our belief that Los Leones appear most likely to play in a 4-2-3-1 formation, choosing Unai Simon, Andoni Gorosabel, Aitor Paredes, Unai Nunez, Adama Boiro, Benat Prados, Mikel Vesga, Alvaro Djalo, Unai Gomez, Alex Berenguer and Gorka Guruzeta.

💡 Prediction

It looks to us that Real Madrid will probably score at least once when they come up against Athletic Bilbao, who will not find it easy scoring a goal of their own.

We’re tipping a pretty comfortable 2-0 victory for Real Madrid at the end of the 90 minutes.

Renata Leite, 18:04 20/04/2025