📊 Form Guide

Valencia

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Valencia will be hoping to bounce back here following the 2-1 La Liga loss in their previous game against Real Betis.

In that match, Valencia had 47% possession and 15 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. The scorer for Valencia was Rioja (20'). On the other side, Real Betis got 14 attempts at goal with 2 on target. Ezequiel Ávila (23') and Fornals (88') scored for Real Betis.

Valencia haven’t had any problems with scoring, finding the back of the net every time they’ve gone out to play in their last 6 matches.

They have claimed a sum of 9 during that time and have conceded a total of 9. We will see if that trend can be continued on in this game.

Athletic Bilbao

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In their previous fixture, Athletic Bilbao drew 1-1 in the La Liga match with Real Sociedad.

In that match, Athletic Bilbao had 55% possession and 19 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Athletic Bilbao was Iñigo Ruiz de Galarreta (88'). For their opponents, Real Sociedad got 8 attempts at goal with 6 on target. Guedes (37') scored for Real Sociedad.

Over the course of their previous 6 clashes, Athletic Bilbao have amassed a total of 13 goals. Athletic Bilbao have also managed to score on each one of those occasions. During those fixtures, they’ve seen 14 goals go into their own net.

👥 Head to head

A look at their past head to head clashes dating back to 11/02/2023 tells us that Valencia have won 2 of these and Athletic Bilbao 3, with the number of drawn matches being 1.

An aggregate of 12 goals were scored between them in this period, with 6 of them for Los Che and 6 for Los Leones. That’s an average goals per game of 2.

The last league encounter featuring the two was La Liga match day 5 on 20/09/2025 which finished with the scoreline of Valencia 2-0 Athletic Bilbao.

That time, Valencia had 44% possession and 13 attempts at goal with 5 on target. Goals were scored by Baptiste Santamaría (73') and Duro (93').

For their opponents, Athletic Bilbao got 11 shots at goal with 5 on target.

The referee was Miguel Ángel Ortiz Arias.

🗞️ Team News: Valencia

Julen Agirrezabala (Muscle injury) and Mouctar Diakhaby (Muscle injury) aren’t available for Valencia boss Carlos Corberán.

In all likelihood, Los Che will probably go for a 4-4-2 formation for this one with Stole Dimitrievski, Dimitri Foulquier, Cesar Tarrega, Eray Coemert, Jesus Vazquez, Luis Rioja, Filip Ugrinic, Pepelu, Arnaut Danjuma, Hugo Duro and Lucas Beltran.

🗞️ Team News: Athletic Bilbao

Athletic Bilbao boss Ernesto Valverde has a number of players out of action. Nico Williams (Pubalgia), Unai Egiluz (Cruciate ligament tear) and Beñat Prados (Cruciate ligament tear) miss out here.

It’s our belief that Los Leones seem likely to elect for a 4-2-3-1 system by sending out Unai Simon, Jesus Areso, Aitor Paredes, Aymeric Laporte, Yuri Berchiche, I. Ruiz de, Mikel Jauregizar, Alex Berenguer, Unai Gomez, Robert Navarro and Urko Izeta.

⚡ Prediction

When taking everything into account, Athletic Bilbao will need to put in a solid display to find the net against this Valencia lineup who we reckon will do enough to score at the other end and edge ahead.

We’re therefore expecting a good tussle with a 1-0 winning margin for Valencia at the end of the 90 minutes.

We’ll see what happens.

Victor Martins, 02:00 04/02/2026