Athletic Club vs Valencia Competition – Spanish Primera Liga Stadium: San Mamés Date: 28th August 2024 Kick-off time – 18:00 GMT
Valencia will look to win their first game of the season when they travel to the Estadio San Mamés to face Athletic Club in their third league game of the season. Like their visitors, Bilbao are yet to record a win this season. After opening their campaign with a 1-1 draw with Getafe, the hosts were beaten by Barcelona in their most recent game. Despite the disappointing results, boss Ernesto Valverde remained upbeat, stating his team are “doing well”. Perhaps misfortune has also played a part, with Athletic being forced to use third-string goalkeeper Álex Padilla at the Camp Nou after minor injuries to Unai Simón and Julen Agirrezabala. Valverde will hope to have one of the two available here as Athletic bids to avoid two successive league defeats for the first time since May 2023. Bilbao fans will be confident that their side can get a good result here given their imperious home league form in recent times. The Basque club has not tasted a La Liga defeat at home in over 12 months (W12, D7). Meanwhile, Valencia have lost their opening two games this season, falling to a 2-1 defeat to Barcelona in their opening game before losing 3-1 to Celta Vigo last time. Those pair of losses made it nine league matches without a victory for the visitors (D2, L7). Head coach Rubén Baraja will be desperate to avoid another poor result as his side attempts to win just their second game against Athletic Bilbao in the last five head-to-head meetings between them. However, Los Ches’ form last term away to sides of Athletic’s quality will add to fears that their recent slide could be set to continue. Valencia went the whole league campaign without winning on their travels against any team who also finished inside the top ten as Athletic did (D1, L8). Other fixtures taking place this week in the Spanish Primera Liga: Spanish Primera Liga Table
September 20, 2024
Alaves
20:00
Sevilla
September 21, 2024
Real Valladolid
13:00
Real Sociedad
Osasuna
15:15
Las Palmas
Valencia
17:30
Girona
Real Madrid
20:00
Espanyol
September 22, 2024
Getafe
13:00
Leganes
Athletic Bilbao
15:15
Celta Vigo
Villarreal
17:30
Barcelona
Rayo Vallecano
20:00
Atlético de Madrid
September 23, 2024
Real Betis
20:00
Mallorca
September 24, 2024
Sevilla
18:00
Real Valladolid
Valencia
18:00
Osasuna
Real Madrid
20:00
Alaves
September 25, 2024
Girona
18:00
Rayo Vallecano
Barcelona
20:00
Getafe
September 26, 2024
Espanyol
18:00
Villarreal
Las Palmas
18:00
Real Betis
Celta Vigo
20:00
Atlético de Madrid
September 27, 2024
Real Valladolid
20:00
Mallorca
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Team
MP
W
D
L
F
A
G
P
1
Barcelona
5
5
0
0
17
4
+13
15
2
Atlético de Madrid
5
3
2
0
9
2
+7
11
3
Real Madrid
5
3
2
0
9
2
+7
11
4
Villarreal
5
3
2
0
11
8
+3
11
5
Athletic Bilbao
6
3
1
2
8
6
+2
10
6
Celta Vigo
5
3
0
2
13
10
+3
9
7
Real Betis
5
2
2
1
5
4
+1
8
8
Mallorca
6
2
2
2
4
4
+0
8
9
Rayo Vallecano
5
2
1
2
7
6
+1
7
10
Alaves
5
2
1
2
7
6
+1
7
11
Girona
5
2
1
2
8
8
+0
7
12
Espanyol
5
2
1
2
5
5
+0
7
13
Osasuna
5
2
1
2
6
10
-4
7
14
Sevilla
5
1
2
2
4
6
-2
5
15
Leganes
6
1
2
3
3
7
-4
5
16
Real Sociedad
6
1
1
4
3
7
-4
4
17
Real Valladolid
5
1
1
3
2
13
-11
4
18
Getafe
5
0
3
2
2
4
-2
3
19
Las Palmas
5
0
2
3
6
10
-4
2
20
Valencia
5
0
1
4
3
10
-7
1
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