La Liga preview: Can Athletic Club edge out victory against Espanyol?

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Competition: Spain La Liga
Date: Wed 30.October
Match begins: 20:00 (UTC)
Venue: San Mames (53289 seats)

With their 5 point advantage in the league table, Athletic Club fans are hoping to see their team collect maximum points from this game against Espanyol.

It's no vacation for neither Athletic Club nor Espanyol as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.

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Athletic Club form and stats

Overall La Liga stats at home this season for Athletic Club are 3-1-1 (wins-draw-losses).

Athletic Club lost their last game at Atletico Madrid (placed 4th) after a 0-2 scoreline. Preceding that game was the home draw versus Real Valladolid that ended 1-1.

The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from Athletic Club's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played six games, won 1 match, drawn 3 and lost 2.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Athletic Club as they are travelling to their away game against Villarreal in the La Liga. That match is four days after this one.

Athletic Club has scored 6 league goals at home this season, in 5 matches. Athletic Club have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 2 goals.

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Espanyol form and stats

As the visiting team in La Liga matches, Espanyol, who have the the worst goal difference (-10) in La Liga, have produced an overall stat of 2-2-1 so far.

It's the second away game in a row for Espanyol, but there's smiles all around after the 1-0 victory versus Levante (placed 13th) in the La Liga last time out. Ahead of that match was the victory versus Ludogorets at their stadium, the result 1-0.

Looking at the earlier recent performances of Espanyol when being an outsider away as they are today, we find four matches with the visitors losing 1 time, drawing 3 and winning 0 games.

A new game in only three days for Espanyol, the La Liga home match versus Valencia. Busy days.

The attacking power of Espanyol when travelling is not overwhelming with 4 goals scored from 5 league matches away. It's not easy to score on Espanyol as they have only conceded 4 goals from these away games.

Head 2 Head

Numbers for the last ten meetings between these two teams are: 3 wins for Athletic Club, 3 draws and 4 wins for Espanyol. Over 2,5 goals: 2 times; under 2,5 goals: 8 games.

Top Goalscorers

Athletic ClubRaúl García
Raúl García
4 goals
Athletic ClubIñaki Williams
Iñaki Williams
2 goals
Athletic ClubAduriz
Aduriz
1 goals

Athletic Club missing players

Espanyol missing players

Athletic Club Espanyol
Total Home Home vs low Statistics Stat Away vs mid Away Total
10 5 1 Played P 1 5 10
3 3 1 Won W 1 2 2
4 1 0 Drew D 0 2 2
3 1 0 Lost L 0 1 6
8 6 2 Scored S 1 4 5
7 2 0 Conceded C 0 4 15
90% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 80% 90%
60% 60% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 60% 70%
0% 0% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 20% 30%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 10%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
30% 20% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 40% 30%
40% 60% 100% Clean Sheets C S 100% 40% 20%
40% 20% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 40% 60%
 
4.7 3.8 3 Corners For (avg) C F 7 4.4 5.4
4.6 4.2 2 Corners Against (avg) C A 4 4.4 4.5
2 1.6 1 Yellow Cards (avg) Y C 3 3.2 2.5
0 0 0 Red Cards R C 0 1 2
Key stats this season:
  • Athletic Club have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Athletic Club have won significantly less corners at home than away.
  • Athletic Club haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Espanyol have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Espanyol have won significantly less corners away then at home.

Athletic Club
All Copa Del Rey La Liga Europa League
All Home Away Home vs low
25-09-19 LAL Leganes 1 - 1 Athletic Club
28-09-19 LAL Athletic Club 0 - 1 Valencia
06-10-19 LAL Celta de Vigo 1 - 0 Athletic Club
20-10-19 LAL Athletic Club 1 - 1 Real Valladolid
26-10-19 LAL Atletico Madrid 2 - 0 Athletic Club
30-10-19 LAL Athletic Club 20:00 Espanyol
03-11-19 LAL Villarreal 14:00 Athletic Club
10-11-19 LAL Athletic Club 14:00 Levante
24-11-19 LAL Osasuna 14:00 Athletic Club
01-12-19 LAL Athletic Club 01:00 Granada
Espanyol
All Copa Del Rey La Liga Europa League
All Home Away Away vs mid
03-10-19 EL CSKA Moskva 0 - 2 Espanyol
06-10-19 LAL Mallorca 2 - 0 Espanyol
20-10-19 LAL Espanyol 0 - 1 Villarreal
24-10-19 EL Ludogorets 0 - 1 Espanyol
27-10-19 LAL Levante 0 - 1 Espanyol
30-10-19 LAL Athletic Club 20:00 Espanyol
02-11-19 LAL Espanyol 13:00 Valencia
07-11-19 EL Espanyol 21:00 Ludogorets
10-11-19 LAL Atletico Madrid 16:00 Espanyol
24-11-19 LAL Espanyol 12:00 Getafe

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Granada 10 6 2 2 17 10 5 4 0 1 5 1 5 2 2 1 12 9 7 20
2 Barcelona 9 6 1 2 23 10 4 4 0 0 16 5 5 2 1 2 7 5 13 19
3 Real Sociedad 10 6 1 3 17 10 4 3 0 1 9 3 6 3 1 2 8 7 7 19
4 Atletico Madrid 10 5 4 1 10 5 6 3 3 0 7 3 4 2 1 1 3 2 5 19
5 Sevilla 10 6 1 3 13 11 5 3 1 1 7 4 5 3 0 2 6 7 2 19
6 Real Madrid 9 5 3 1 16 9 4 3 1 0 10 5 5 2 2 1 6 4 7 18
7 Villarreal 10 5 2 3 24 14 5 3 2 0 17 8 5 2 0 3 7 6 10 17
8 Osasuna 10 3 5 2 10 9 5 2 3 0 7 4 5 1 2 2 3 5 1 14
9 Real Valladolid 10 3 5 2 10 9 4 1 3 0 4 2 6 2 2 2 6 7 1 14
10 Athletic Club 10 3 4 3 8 7 5 3 1 1 6 2 5 0 3 2 2 5 1 13
11 Getafe 10 3 4 3 14 14 5 2 2 1 8 6 5 1 2 2 6 8 0 13
12 Valencia 10 3 4 3 14 16 5 2 3 0 9 6 5 1 1 3 5 10 -2 13
13 Levante 10 3 2 5 10 12 5 2 2 1 5 3 5 1 0 4 5 9 -2 11
14 Deportivo Alaves 10 3 2 5 8 13 5 3 1 1 5 1 5 0 1 4 3 12 -5 11
15 Mallorca 10 3 1 6 7 13 6 3 1 2 5 4 4 0 0 4 2 9 -6 10
16 Eibar 10 2 3 5 10 15 4 2 0 2 6 7 6 0 3 3 4 8 -5 9
17 Celta de Vigo 10 2 3 5 5 12 6 2 1 3 4 7 4 0 2 2 1 5 -7 9
18 Real Betis 10 2 3 5 12 20 5 2 2 1 8 6 5 0 1 4 4 14 -8 9
19 Espanyol 10 2 2 6 5 15 5 0 0 5 1 11 5 2 2 1 4 4 -10 8
20 Leganes 10 1 2 7 5 14 6 1 1 4 3 8 4 0 1 3 2 6 -9 5

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