Athletic Bilbao vs Elche Match Preview

Match info:

Athletic Bilbao vs Elche

Competition – Spanish Primera Liga

Stadium – San Mames

Date: 31st October 2013

Kick-off time – 21:00 GMT+1

5th place Athletic Bilbao host 12th position Elche at the Estadio San Mamés this Thursday evening in the Spanish Primera Liga.


Recent form:

Athletic Bilbao – W W W D L W L

Elche – L W W W L L D

Bilbao have won 4 of their last 7 while Elche have won 3 of their last 7.

Form

The Spanish Primera Table currently looks like this:

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 Barcelona 13 11 0 2 40 12 +28 33
2 Real Madrid 12 8 3 1 25 11 +14 27
3 Atlético de Madrid 13 7 5 1 19 7 +12 26
4 Villarreal 12 7 3 2 23 19 +4 24
5 Osasuna 13 6 3 4 17 20 -3 21
6 Athletic Bilbao 13 5 5 3 19 13 +6 20
7 Real Betis 13 5 5 3 14 12 +2 20
8 Real Sociedad 13 5 3 5 11 10 +1 18
9 Mallorca 13 5 3 5 10 10 +0 18
10 Girona 13 5 3 5 16 17 -1 18
11 Celta Vigo 13 5 2 6 20 22 -2 17
12 Rayo Vallecano 12 4 4 4 13 13 +0 16
13 Sevilla 13 4 3 6 12 18 -6 15
14 Leganes 13 3 5 5 13 16 -3 14
15 Alaves 13 4 1 8 14 22 -8 13
16 Las Palmas 13 3 3 7 16 22 -6 12
17 Getafe 13 1 7 5 8 11 -3 10
18 Espanyol 12 3 1 8 11 22 -11 10
19 Real Valladolid 13 2 3 8 10 25 -15 9
20 Valencia 11 1 4 6 8 17 -9 7

A win for Bilbao will move them to 4th place while a win for Elche could see them go as high as 8th.

Head-to-head

These two sides have not met in recent years so there is no history to go on.

History

 

Possible line-ups

Athletic Bilbao

Iraizoz
Iraola
Balenziaga
Laporte
Gurpegi
Susaeta
Iturraspe
Rico
Herrera
Aduriz
De Marcos

Elche

Herrera
Lombán
Suárez
Botía
Mantecón
Márquez
Perez
Fidel
Manu
Coro
Gil

Bookmakers make Athletic Bilbao strong favourites to come out on top in this match.

Odds: Bilbao (8/13) Draw (14/5) Elche (9/2)Gamingtips Prediction – Bilbao 2:1 Elche

Athletic Bilbao finished 12th in the Spanish Primera last season.

They scored 44 goals in 38 games and conceded 65.

Elche won the Spanish Segunda division last season and were promoted to the Spanish Primera.

They scored 54 goals and conceded 27 (best defensive record in the Segunda division).

Elche have made a reasonable to life in the Spanish Primera losing just 4 of their opening 10 games.

Athletic Bilbao have won 6 of their opening 10 games and a win on Friday will push them into 4th position.

Athletic Bilbao should have enough quality to overcome Elche but odds of 8/13 don’t suggest that bookmakers expect a dominant display.

Elche have a chance if they can defend as well as they did last season.

Bilbao conceded more than 1 goal per game on average so there is an outside chance of a shock result.

What do you think will happen?

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