Athletic Bilbao vs Valencia Preview: Spanish Primera Liga

Match info:

Athletic Bilbao vs Valencia

Competition – Spanish Primera Liga

Stadium – San Mames

Date: 6th October 2013

Kick-off time – 20:00 GMT+1

5th place Athletic Bilbao host 6th position Valencia at the San Mamés Stadium this Sunday evening in the Spanish Primera Liga.


Recent form:

Athletic Bilbao  – L W L W L W W

Belgrano – W W W W L L L

Both sides have won 4 of their last 7 games.

Form

The Spanish Primera currently looks like this:

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 Real Madrid 29 22 6 1 64 20 +44 72
2 Barcelona 29 19 7 3 60 34 +26 64
3 Girona 29 19 5 5 59 34 +25 62
4 Athletic Bilbao 29 16 8 5 50 26 +24 56
5 Atlético de Madrid 29 17 4 8 54 34 +20 55
6 Real Sociedad 29 12 10 7 42 31 +11 46
7 Real Betis 29 10 12 7 34 33 +1 42
8 Valencia 28 11 7 10 32 32 +0 40
9 Villarreal 29 10 8 11 47 51 -4 38
10 Getafe 29 9 11 9 37 42 -5 38
11 Las Palmas 29 10 7 12 29 32 -3 37
12 Osasuna 29 10 6 13 33 43 -10 36
13 Alaves 29 8 8 13 26 35 -9 32
14 Mallorca 29 6 12 11 25 35 -10 30
15 Rayo Vallecano 29 6 11 12 25 38 -13 29
16 Sevilla 29 6 10 13 36 44 -8 28
17 Celta Vigo 29 6 9 14 32 44 -12 27
18 Cadiz 29 3 13 13 20 40 -20 22
19 Granada 28 2 8 18 30 58 -28 14
20 Almeria 29 1 10 18 28 57 -29 13

 

Head-to-head

These two sides have met 40 times in recent years and Valencia have come out on top most often (Athletic Bilbao 11 wins, Valencia 20 win, 9 draws). 

History

The last 5 meetings between these two sides finished 1:0, 2:3, 0:3, 1:1 and 1:2.

Bookmakers Athletic Bilbao slight favourites for this game.

Odds: Bilbao (11/10) Draw (5/2) Valencia (23/10)Gamingtips Prediction – Athletic Bilbao 1:3 Valencia

Athletic Bilbao finished 12th in the Spanish Primera last season where they scored 44 goals in 38 games and conceded 65.

Valencia finished 5th.  They scored 67 goals in 38 games and conceded 54.

Athletic Bilbao had the 4th worst record in the Spanish Primera last season and if they are to be competitive in this game, they will need to shut down a Valencia attack that scored on average over 1.5 goals per game last season.

So far this season, both sides have the exact same record with 4 wins and 3 losses.

Valencia travelled to Russia on Thurday to face Kuban’ Krasnodar in the Europa League and that trip may affect their performance this evening.

From a betting perspective, over 3.5 goals at odds of 7/4 is reasonable given the amount of goals scored and conceded by these two sides.

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