Granada take on the visitors Athletic Bilbao in the round 5 match of Spanish LaLiga. The match will be played at Estadio Nuevo Los Carmenes (Granada) on Wednesday, September 21st.
Granada, who almost got relegated to Segunda in previous season, have quite mediocre start of new campaign as well as they haven’t won a single match so far. They drew two clashes with Villarreal, 1-1, and Betis, 2-2, losing twice to Las Palmas, 1-5 and Eibar, 1-2. All the opponents, except Villarreal, are the teams that can be considered as Granada’s rivals in battle for the place in the top division. Such poor results in direct opponents is not what makes them optimistic in clash with top teams.
Athletic Bilbao, the fifth team of previous season, lost their two starting matches of the season to Sporting Gijon and Barcelona, 1-2 and 0-1 respectively. The team from the Basque Country managed to bounce back with win over Deportivo and Valencia, 1-0 and 2-1 but lost Europa League match to Sassuolo, 0-3.
It may come as surprise, but Granada have advantage in matches against Athletic Bilbao, taking four points in matches with Athletic last season. It’s hard to pick a favorite of the match, but we should expect to see at least two goals in this match.
Prediction for the match: Under 2.0 goals.