Athletic Bilbao hosts Valladolid in round 9 of Spanish LaLiga. The match will be played on Sunday, October 20th at Estadio San Mamés (Bilbao)
Athletic, unlike at least the start in the last season, is not playing the worst part of the new championship yet, having led the struggle for European cups at least in the debut of the competition. At the same time, the Basque lions traditionally pose a serious threat to anyone precisely within the boundaries of their home stadium “San Mames”. In the running La Liga, they have already beaten Real Sociedad (defeat 0:2), Alaves (0:2), and even Catalan Barcelona, which lost 0-1 to the Basques. And the attack of Bilbao, as we see, was by no means inactive in all those meetings!
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As for Real Valladolid, this royal team, which has recently returned to the top echelon, shows quite ordinary football in the next championship. It is more focused on the task of staying afloat in the elite than to achieve something more significant. In other words, the White-violets do not represent anything special. For example, they allow the attack of almost any opponents to offend themselves regularly, having recently conceded goals from Real Betis, Levante (twice), Villarreal (twice), Granada, Osasuna, etc.
I think it will be very strange if the qualified attack of Athletic Bilbao, led by one of the best scorers of the current LaLiga, Raul Garcia, (4 goals in 8 rounds) and not aging veteran Aritz Aduriz, does not score at least one goal. Finally, I’ll add that the Lions did not let the Valladolid players from their field without a goal conceded since 2003 (in 11 matches in a row)!
Prediction for the match: Athletic Bilbao to score over 1.0 goal
