Athletic Club vs Elche preview: Away team in for a gruelling job at San Mamés Barria

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Competition: Spain La Liga
Competition: Sun 28.May
Match begins: 17:00 (UTC)
Venue: San Mamés Barria (53289 seats)

Athletic Club have accomplished 8 home triumphs this season, Elche have won 1 away. Which team upgrades their results after this meeting?

Insights:
  • Athletic Club have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
  • Elche have the most conceded goals (66) in La Liga

Elche are nearing the end of this stay in this division as relegation is now unavoidable.

Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 800 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Athletic Club form and stats

8-3-7 (win-draw-lost) are the La Liga numbers at home for Athletic Club so far this season.

Club are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 0-2 away versus Osasuna. Defender Berchiche got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.05/10. Berchiche won 8 of 10 duels.

Before that game, the 2-1 home victory against Celta de Vigo.

Athletic Club are believed to win this game, given a winning chance of about 70% by the bookmakers. We have checked our records for their performance in similar circumstances and found 6 matches and the win/draw/lost stats: Won 3, drew 2 and lost 1.

Club are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 22 goals in 18 games. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 2 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Athletic Club are not conceding a lot of goals here at San Mamés Barria in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 14 from 18 matches.

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Elche form and stats

There's been little loot from Elche's travels as they have only collected 7 points from 18 away games in the La Liga. Elche only have 1 win to counter their 13 defeats and 4 draws.

Elche's last game ended in a draw, the home match versus Sevilla that finished 1-1. Midfielder Morente was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 8.55. Morente scored one goal, hit three key passes, dribled past the opponent 7 of 10 times and had 38 successful passes (of 42 total).

Preceding that game, the 1-1 draw paying a visit to Getafe.

We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Elche played away with similar odds. This revealed 8 games. The visitors overcame the odds to win 0 times, 1 were draw and the home team won as expected 7 times.

The visitors have scored 11 goals from 18 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. For Elche, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 4 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

Elche - Athletic Club 1-4 was the result in these squads' last h2h game, played this season. Club-Elche H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Athletic Club four wins, Elche two wins, four draws. five of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

Athletic ClubI. Williams Arthuer
I. Williams Arthuer
10 goals
Athletic ClubO. Sancet Tirapu
O. Sancet Tirapu
9 goals
Athletic ClubN. Williams Arthuer
N. Williams Arthuer
6 goals

Athletic Club missing players

Elche missing players

Athletic Club Elche
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
36 18 6 Played P 6 18 36
14 8 4 Won W 1 1 4
8 3 1 Drew D 1 4 9
14 7 1 Lost L 4 13 23
46 22 13 Scored S 5 11 28
41 14 3 Conceded C 11 38 66
86% 83% 83% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
61% 44% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 83% 89% 81%
47% 33% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 61% 50%
31% 22% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 17% 22% 25%
14% 17% 17% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 6%
42% 22% 33% BTTS BTTS 50% 44% 47%
31% 44% 50% Clean Sheets C S 17% 6% 8%
42% 50% 33% Failed to Score F T 33% 50% 44%
 
6.4 7.8 7.7 Corners for (avg) C F 3.2 4.3 5.4
3.6 2.6 2.8 Corners against (avg) C A 7 6.3 5.6
2.2 2.2 2.2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 4.3 2.9 2.6
5 2 1 Red cards R C 2 6 12
 
14.3 16.1 16.7 Shots (avg) S ( 9 8.3 10.8
4.6 4.8 5.3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.3 2.6 3.4
28% 26% 41% Goal Efficiency G E 25% 24% 23%
 
10.6 8.9 10.3 Shots against (avg) S A 18 17.2 14.7
3.6 2.6 2.3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6 6.8 5.8
Key stats in La Liga this season:
  • Athletic Club have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
  • Athletic Club have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Elche have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Elche have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Elche have the fewest scored goals in the second half (13) in La Liga
  • Elche have the most conceded goals (66) in La Liga
  • Elche have the most conceded goals in the first half (37) in La Liga
  • Elche have the the worst goal difference (-27) away in La Liga
  • Elche have the the worst goal difference (-38) in La Liga
  • Elche have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Elche haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 FC Barcelona 36 27 4 5 66 18 18 14 3 1 34 4 18 13 1 4 32 14 48 85
2 Real Madrid 36 23 5 8 72 34 18 13 4 1 43 15 18 10 1 7 29 19 38 74
3 Atletico Madrid 36 22 7 7 66 30 18 12 3 3 39 14 18 10 4 4 27 16 36 73
4 Real Sociedad 36 20 8 8 48 32 18 10 5 3 24 15 18 10 3 5 24 17 16 68
5 Villarreal 36 19 6 11 56 36 18 12 2 4 34 16 18 7 4 7 22 20 20 63
6 Real Betis 36 16 8 12 43 39 18 9 4 5 25 17 18 7 4 7 18 22 4 56
7 Osasuna 36 14 8 14 34 39 18 10 1 7 22 20 18 4 7 7 12 19 -5 50
8 Athletic Club 36 14 8 14 46 41 18 8 3 7 22 14 18 6 5 7 24 27 5 50
9 Girona 36 13 10 13 56 51 18 10 3 5 34 24 18 3 7 8 22 27 5 49
10 Sevilla 36 13 10 13 45 50 18 7 5 6 23 23 18 6 5 7 22 27 -5 49
11 Mallorca 36 13 8 15 34 40 18 9 5 4 19 12 18 4 3 11 15 28 -6 47
12 Rayo Vallecano 36 12 10 14 43 49 18 8 5 5 26 21 18 4 5 9 17 28 -6 46
13 Valencia 36 11 7 18 39 42 18 8 4 6 25 17 18 3 3 12 14 25 -3 40
14 Celta de Vigo 36 10 10 16 41 51 18 6 6 6 24 20 18 4 4 10 17 31 -10 40
15 Almeria 36 11 6 19 46 62 18 10 2 6 29 22 18 1 4 13 17 40 -16 39
16 Cadiz 36 9 11 16 28 52 18 6 6 6 18 23 18 3 5 10 10 29 -24 38
17 Getafe 36 9 11 16 32 44 18 6 6 6 19 19 18 3 5 10 13 25 -12 38
18 Real Valladolid 36 11 5 20 33 63 18 8 3 7 21 25 18 3 2 13 12 38 -30 38
19 Espanyol 36 8 11 17 47 64 18 4 6 8 24 32 18 4 5 9 23 32 -17 35
20 Elche 36 4 9 23 28 66 18 3 5 10 17 28 18 1 4 13 11 38 -38 21

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