📏 Form Guide

Athletic Bilbao

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Athletic Bilbao will be hoping for a repeat of their last result, following the 2-4 La Liga success vs Alaves.

In that game, Athletic Bilbao had 50% possession and 9 attempts on goal with 4 on target. For Athletic Bilbao, goals were scored by Navarro (46'), Sancet (74') and Williams (83', 87'). At the other end, Alaves had 7 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. Blanco (8') and Nahuel Tenaglia (68') scored for Alaves.

It has not been often in recent times where Athletic Bilbao have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. The facts show that Athletic Bilbao have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 games, shipping 10 goals along the way.

Valencia

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After a losing effort in their last game against Atlético Madrid in La Liga competition, Valencia will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that match, Valencia managed 53% possession and 12 shots on goal with 0 of them on target. For their opponents, Atletico Madrid had 20 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. Luque (74') and Miguel Cubo (82') scored for Atlético Madrid.

Looking at their form, and Valencia have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, letting opponents get 8 goals in total. At the back, Valencia have been far from perfect. Nevertheless, we will just have to wait and see if that trend shall continue on in this match.

Their prior results show that Valencia:

• haven't won against Athletic Bilbao when they've played them away from home in the last 5 matches in the league. Not good at all.
• are without an away win for the past 2 matches in the league.

↔️ Head to head

Looking at their past head-to-head meetings stretching back to 29/10/2023 shows us that Athletic Bilbao have won 3 of these & Valencia 2, with the number of drawn games standing at 1.

An aggregate of 12 goals were shared by the two clubs in these games, with 6 for Los Leones and 6 netted by Los Che. That’s an average goals per game of 2.

🗞️ Team News: Athletic Bilbao

We are thinking that Los Leones may well line up in a 4-2-3-1 system in the match, utilising Unai Simon, Andoni Gorosabel, Yeray Alvarez, Aymeric Laporte, Yuri Berchiche, Alejandro Rego, Mikel Jauregizar, Robert Navarro, Oihan Sancet, Nico Williams and Gorka Guruzeta.

📰 Team News: Valencia

It’s our belief that Los Che appear most likely to begin the game with a 4-4-2 formation with a starting lineup of Stole Dimitrievski, Renzo Saravia, Cesar Tarrega, Eray Coemert, Jose Gaya, Luis Rioja, Guido Rodriguez, Pepelu, Diego Lopez, Javier Guerra and Hugo Duro.

🧠 Prediction

In our view, Valencia have the firepower to find the back of the net against this Athletic Bilbao side, but that might not quite be as many as they’ll concede.

We reckon that it will be a very close game with a 2-1 victory for Athletic Bilbao at the end of this one. Hopefully this is a good one.

Lucas Pereira, 14:07 10/05/2026