Athletic Club will aim to utilise their home advantage to help shorten the gap to today’s adversaries. The team playing at home are currently 12 points behind Real Madrid.
- Athletic Club have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Real Madrid have the most scored goals (36) in La Liga
It's no vacation for neither Athletic Club nor Real Madrid 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.
Athletic Club form and stats
When playing at home in the La Liga, Athletic Club have managed 5 wins, 2 draws and suffered 2 defeats from 9 games.
Club's previous fixture was a Copa Del Rey game also played at their own arena, ending 1-0 against Espanyol. The home team hope to to continue in that form. de Marcos was "man of the match" with a rating of 8.15 out of 10. The defender Marcos scored one goal and won 4 of 7 duels.
Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Real Sociedad (1-3).Athletic Club are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 12 goals in 9 games. Defensively Athletic Club have been outstanding, conceding less than half a goal on average per home game in the league (4 in 9 games). For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.
Real Madrid form and stats
Real Madrid have an excellent away record in the La Liga so far with 7-0-2 from 9 games.
Two away games in a row for Madrid, whose coach Ancelotti could celebrate last time after the Copa Del Rey win against Villarreal. Militão, who plays in defense, got the "man of the match" on his team with the rating 8.65. Militão scored one goal and won 9 of 12 duels.
The fixture before was the Super Cup-battle against FC Barcelona, a home defeat (1-3).
Goal-happy betting people should observe that 12 of this team's 16 most recent league matches have ended with three or more goals.
The Real Madrid manager Ancelotti has got the team scoring on the road, with 20 away goals in 9 league matches.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: two - one - seven (Athletic Club wins - draws - Real Madrid wins). As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six had two or less. One of the players to grab the headlines has been Benzema with 10 goals scored against Athletic Club in these 10 meetings.
Top Goalscorers
  K. Benzema 8 goals |  F. Valverde Dipetta 6 goals |  V. Júnior 6 goals |
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| Athletic Club | Real Madrid | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 17 | 9 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 9 | 16 |
| 7 | 5 | 1 | Won | W | 1 | 7 | 12 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| 25 | 12 | 1 | Scored | S | 4 | 20 | 36 |
| 17 | 4 | 1 | Conceded | C | 4 | 9 | 16 |
| 82% | 78% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 59% | 33% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 89% | 94% |
| 53% | 33% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 78% | 75% |
| 41% | 22% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 33% | 38% |
| 12% | 11% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 22% | 19% |
| 35% | 11% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 67% | 81% |
| 47% | 67% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 33% | 19% |
| 35% | 44% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 5.8 | 7.3 | 6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 10 | 5.6 | 5.8 |
| 3.1 | 2.4 | 1.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3 | 5.1 | 3.8 |
| 1.7 | 1.7 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 1.3 | 1.6 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 15.5 | 17.4 | 16.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 23 | 17.1 | 17.7 |
| 5.1 | 5.4 | 4.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 8.5 | 6.6 | 6.1 |
| 29% | 24% | 11% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 24% | 34% | 37% |
| 9 | 7.6 | 5.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 13 | 13.1 | 11.4 |
| 3.5 | 2.2 | 2.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 7 | 4.1 | 3.6 |
- Athletic Club have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- 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.
- Real Madrid have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Real Madrid have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Real Madrid have scored in all their matches so far.
- Real Madrid have the fewest matches under the total-line (4) in La Liga
- Real Madrid have the most matches over the total-line (12) in La Liga
- Real Madrid have the most scored goals (20) away in La Liga
- Real Madrid have the most scored goals (36) in La Liga
- Real Madrid have the most scored goals in the second half (20) in La Liga
- Real Madrid 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 | 16 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 35 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 18 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 5 | 29 | 41 |
| 2 | Real Madrid | 16 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 36 | 16 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 20 | 9 | 20 | 38 |
| 3 | Real Sociedad | 17 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 26 | 18 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 8 | 8 | 35 |
| 4 | Atletico Madrid | 17 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 24 | 16 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 7 | 8 | 28 |
| 5 | Villarreal | 17 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 20 | 13 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 28 |
| 6 | Real Betis | 16 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 19 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 28 |
| 7 | Osasuna | 17 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 17 | 16 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 27 |
| 8 | Athletic Club | 17 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 25 | 17 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 13 | 8 | 26 |
| 9 | Rayo Vallecano | 17 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 24 | 20 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 4 | 26 |
| 10 | Mallorca | 17 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 14 | 16 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 10 | -2 | 22 |
| 11 | Girona | 17 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 26 | 27 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 16 | 14 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 13 | -1 | 21 |
| 12 | Valencia | 16 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 23 | 18 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 19 |
| 13 | Almeria | 17 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 18 | 26 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 11 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 15 | -8 | 18 |
| 14 | Espanyol | 17 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 21 | 26 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 15 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 11 | -5 | 17 |
| 15 | Getafe | 17 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 16 | 24 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 12 | -8 | 17 |
| 16 | Celta de Vigo | 17 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 17 | 28 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 15 | -11 | 17 |
| 17 | Real Valladolid | 17 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 13 | 25 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 16 | -12 | 17 |
| 18 | Cadiz | 17 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 12 | 28 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 15 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 13 | -16 | 16 |
| 19 | Sevilla | 17 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 17 | 26 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 14 | -9 | 15 |
| 20 | Elche | 17 | 0 | 5 | 12 | 11 | 35 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 14 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 21 | -24 | 5 |
