📊 Form Guide

Barcelona are hoping to win again after their last result, the 3-0 La Liga success versus Villarreal.

In that game, Barcelona managed 70% possession and 16 shots at goal with 5 on target. For Barcelona, the goalscorers were Robert Lewandowski (31', 35') and Ansu Fati (38'). Villarreal had 5 shots on goal with 1 on target.

In their preceding 6 fixtures, Xavi Hernández's Barcelona have scored a combined total of 9 times - an average number of goals scored per match of 1.5.

Heading into this contest, Barcelona have not been beaten in the league by Athletic Bilbao in their last 5 games.

Previously, Athletic Bilbao drew 2-2 in the La Liga match with Getafe.

In that match, Athletic Bilbao had 59% possession and 14 shots at goal with 4 on target. For Athletic Bilbao, goals were scored by Iñaki Williams (2') and Raúl García (62'). At the other end, Getafe got 11 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. Carles Aleña (27') and Munir El Haddadi (76') scored for Getafe.

The stats tell the story, and Athletic Bilbao have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, seeing their opponents hit 7 goals in total. At the back, Athletic Bilbao could really do with shoring things up. That sort of trend might not be carried forward into this match, of course.

Looking at the pre-match facts, Athletic Bilbao:

haven't beaten Barcelona in away games against them for the last 20 league matches. A shocking away run it has been.

👥 Head to head

Inspecting their prior head-to-head clashes going back to 17/01/2021 tells us that Barcelona have won 3 of these and Athletic Bilbao 2, with the number of drawn games being 1.

Loads of goals were seen in those games, too - 23 in total at an average of 3.83 goals per meeting.

The previous league encounter featuring these sides was La Liga match day 26 on 27/02/2022 when it ended Barcelona 4-0 Athletic Bilbao.

That day, Barcelona managed 72% possession and 17 shots on goal with 7 of them on target. Goals were scored by Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (37'), Ousmane Dembélé (73'), Luuk de Jong (90') and Memphis Depay (94').

Athletic Bilbao had 6 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target.

The match was refereed by Guillermo Cuadra Fernández.

Memphis Depay (Thigh Problems), Andreas Christensen (Sprained ankle) and Ronald Araújo (Adductors avulsion) will not be taking part for Barcelona manager Xavi Hernández.

We are thinking that Barça will probably kick off with a 4-3-3 system for this game featuring M. ter Stegen, Hector Bellerin, Jules Kounde, Eric Garcia, Alex Balde, Pablo Gavira, Sergio Busquets, Pedri, Ousmane Dembele, Robert Lewandowski and Ansu Fati.

With a completely healthy group available to choose from, the Athletic Bilbao manager Ernesto Valverde does not have any fitness concerns whatsoever before this match.

We believe Los Leones could decide to play in a 4-3-3 system, settling for Unai Simon, Oscar de Marcos, Yeray Alvarez, Inigo Martinez, Inigo Lekue, Oihan Sancet, Dani Garcia, Iker Muniain, Nico Williams, Inaki Williams and Alex Berenguer.

In our opinion, Barcelona will more than likely get amongst the goals when they come up against Athletic Bilbao, who may well find it hard scoring a goal of their own.

Our selection here is for a pretty comfortable 2-0 winning score for Barcelona when all’s said and done.

Checking the latest betting odds for this match in the WDW market, a victory for Barcelona is best priced at 1.5, backing the draw is 4.64 & staking on the winner to be Athletic Bilbao can get you 6.4. These are the best market prices that can be secured as of now.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match.