⚽️ Match: Athletic Bilbao – Getafe
⚽️ Competition: LaLiga
🗓 Date: 25.01.2021

Winner of the Spanish Super Cup, after passing Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​Bilbao needs to confirm his good form in the championship, where he reached a dangerous position. Getafe is a team that started well this calendar year, so the duel on San Mamés promises to be a relatively balanced one.

Bilbao: current form, latest results, statistics

Marcelino’s arrival changed the face of Bilbao, a team that managed to tie three victories in a row: two in the Spanish Super Cup, with Real and Barcelona, ​​and one in the King’s Cup. The Basques definitely want to continue their good form in the championship, where they are only 4 points away from the relegation zone. Bilbao has scored 1.17 successes/match in this season, conceding 1.22 goals / match The big problem of the hosts on Monday is the way they manage the second halves of the matches: no fewer than 5 meetings in which the score was equal at the break turned into defeats. This is despite the fact that two-thirds of the goals scored this season came beyond the 46th minute.

Once a real fortress, San Mamés was a stadium where guests left with points, Bilbao losing 4 times in its own stronghold. It must be said that Marcelino’s team has not yet registered a draw on its own field, only Celta Vigo enjoying a similar statistic. Even though he had to admit defeat “at home” on four occasions, Bilbao received only 8 goals in 9 games in its arena. Only Atletico Madrid (the best defense in the top 5 European championships), Sevilla, and Real Madrid received fewer goals in the confrontations in which they were hosts. As such, in the home games of the Basques, there is the little score, 6 of the 9 disputes so far conceding under 2.5 goals. In only two of the meetings of the current season, it happened that both teams scored. As an interesting fact, in the matches with GG, the team that opened the score lost every time. In the perspective of Monday’s duel, the technical staff does not have big team problems, only the fatigue accumulated after the fire duels with Real Madrid and Barcelona can be a problem. However, in the Cup Marcelino protected many players, so the “heavyweights” of the team had enough time to recover from the Super Cup.

• Absent from hosts in Bilbao – Getafe: Lopez, Nolaskoain.

Getafe: current form, latest results, statistics

Getafe is a team in the middle of the standings, as illustrated by the line in the championship, a very balanced one: 6 wins, 5 draws, 7 defeats. Monday’s guests come after the first series of two victories in a row in La Liga, this season, after the successes with Elche (away) and Huesca (home). In the end, there are big problems, the team having an average of 0.89 goals/match. In fact, Getafe’s matches produced the lowest average of successes in the entire Spanish championship (1.89 successes/match). The offensive hopes of Joseph Bordalas Jimenez’s team will be linked to Angel, the team’s top scorer, with 5 successes. Although at one point he had lost his place in the starting lineup, he has evolved excellently in the last month and a half, scoring 4 times in this interval.

• Absent guests in Bilbao – Getafe: Mollejo, Poveda, Unal.

Athletic Bilbao vs Getafe Picks

A balanced match awaits us, most likely with few successes. The goal rate this season, but also the fact that in the last 5 direct meetings between the fighters on Monday it was marked every time a little (always under 2.5 goals/match) accredits this idea. Getafe is undefeated against Bilbao in the last 7 games, in all competitions, and the fact that it comes after the first series of two victories in a row in La Liga will certainly give it good morale. Even so, we consider that Bilbao will start to prove in the championship that the place occupied is only by circumstance and we will bet on the fact that the Basques will prevail in the confrontation in the 20th round of La Liga. The value of the lot is superior and Marcelino’s team is “injected” with morale after winning the Super Cup. This creates all the conditions for a successful host.

Our Prediction: 1

Odds: 2.30