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Match info:

Athletic Bilbao vs Granada

Competition – Spanish Primera Liga

Stadium – San Mames

Date: 28th February

Kick-off time – 19:30 GMT+1

13th position Granada travel to the San Mames Stadium this Friday evening to face 4th place Athletic Bilbao in the Spanish Primera Liga.


Recent form:

Both sides have won 2 of their last 7 games.

Form

The Spanish Primera table looks like this:

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 Real Madrid 31 24 6 1 67 20 +47 78
2 Barcelona 31 21 7 3 62 34 +28 70
3 Girona 31 20 5 6 63 39 +24 65
4 Atlético de Madrid 31 19 4 8 59 36 +23 61
5 Athletic Bilbao 31 16 9 6 51 29 +22 57
6 Real Sociedad 31 13 11 7 45 33 +12 50
7 Valencia 31 13 8 10 34 32 +2 47
8 Real Betis 31 11 12 8 38 37 +1 45
9 Villarreal 31 10 9 12 49 54 -5 39
10 Getafe 31 9 12 10 37 43 -6 39
11 Osasuna 31 11 6 14 36 44 -8 39
12 Las Palmas 31 10 7 14 29 35 -6 37
13 Sevilla 31 8 10 13 39 44 -5 34
14 Alaves 31 8 8 15 26 38 -12 32
15 Mallorca 31 6 13 12 25 36 -11 31
16 Rayo Vallecano 31 6 13 12 25 38 -13 31
17 Celta Vigo 31 6 10 15 33 46 -13 28
18 Cadiz 31 4 13 14 21 41 -20 25
19 Granada 31 3 8 20 32 60 -28 17
20 Almeria 31 1 11 19 30 62 -32 14

A win for Athletic Bilbao will not improve their position but move them closer to a guaranteed UEFA Champions League position.

A win for Granada could move them as high as 11th.

Head-to-head

These two sides have met 5 times in recent years and nothing separates them.

History

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

Possible line-ups

Athletic Bilbao (4-5-1)

Iraizoz
Balenziaga
Gurpegi
San José
Iraola
Muniain
Rico
Iturraspe
Herrera
Susaeta
Kike Sola

Granada (4-5-1)

Roberto
Angulo
Murillo
Coeff
Nyom
Brahimi
Fran Rico
Iturra
Recio
Piti
El-Arabi

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

Odds: Athletic Bilbao (4/9) Draw (10/3) Granada (6/1)Gamingtips Prediction – Athletic Bilbao 3:1 Granada 

Athletic Bilbao have lost just 6 of their opening 25 fixtures while Granada have lost 14 of their opening 25.

Granada’s main problem has been scoring goals – they have scored just 22 goals in their opening 25 games compared with Bilbao who have scored 25.

Unless Granada can drastically improve their attacking play, they are going to have a very hard time against a side who have a UEFA Champions League position in their sights.

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