Delightful dogfight as daring Athletic Club duels with determined Real Valladolid

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

With their 9 point advantage in the league table, Athletic Club fans are hoping to see their team collect maximum points from this game against Real Valladolid.

Insights:
  • Real Valladolid have the fewest clean sheets (3) in La Liga

Real Valladolid could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a La Liga game only four sleeps ago.

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Athletic Club form and stats

Athletic Club have collected 25 points from their La Liga home games so far after 7-4-4. The trend of drawing games is also valid regardless of arena as Club has five draws from their last five matches. Their last two home games have resulted in two points, meaning they were both draws.

Club haven't scored a league goal since they found the net 185 minutes ago. A. Villalibre scored that one. The Club goalkeeper Unai Simon Mendibil is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 181 minutes without conceding a goal in the La Liga.

Club shared the glory with Real Betis in their last match, an away game that ended all square 0-0. Preceding that match was the home Copa Del Rey game against Barcelona that was lost 0-4.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Club handle that role? We have found 13 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are eight wins, two draws and three defeats.

A decent goal production from Club in their home games so far, with 23 goals from 15 league matches. From these home matches, Club have conceded only 13 goals.

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Real Valladolid form and stats

There's been little loot from Real Valladolid's travels as they have only collected 14 points from 16 away games in the La Liga. Real Valladolid, who have the fewest clean sheets (3) in La Liga, only have 2 wins to counter their 6 defeats and 8 draws.

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

We have checked recent matches where Valladolid have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those eleven games were three victories, four draws and four defeats.

After this away game Valladolid return home for a La Liga game against Real Betis. That game is only four sleeps after this.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Real Valladolid as they have only managed to score 12 times from 16 away games in the league. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. 18 goals have been conceded by Valladolid in these games. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 2 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 away matches.

Head 2 Head

The dueling parties have met before this season: Real Valladolid - Club 2-1. Last ten meetings between the teams: Club won three, Real Valladolid won three and four draws. seven games with over 2,5 goals, three matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Athletic ClubI. Muniain Goñi
I. Muniain Goñi
5 goals
ClubI. Williams Arthuer
I. Williams Arthuer
5 goals

Athletic Club missing players

Real Valladolid missing players

Athletic Club Real Valladolid
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
31 15 6 Played P 6 16 32
9 7 3 Won W 1 2 5
11 4 3 Drew D 4 8 14
11 4 0 Lost L 1 6 13
39 23 10 Scored S 6 12 29
33 13 3 Conceded C 6 18 43
90% 93% 83% Over 0.5 O 0.5 67% 88% 94%
74% 73% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 62% 75%
39% 33% 17% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 19% 34%
19% 20% 17% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 19% 19%
6% 13% 17% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 3%
55% 47% 50% BTTS BTTS 50% 44% 59%
26% 33% 50% Clean Sheets C S 33% 19% 9%
29% 27% 17% Failed to Score F T 50% 50% 38%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.4 2.3 1.8 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.8 2.6 2.5
2 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 3
 
10.8 11.9 12.5 Shots (avg) S ( 8.8 8.2 8.5
3.4 3.6 3.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.5 2.8 3.2
38% 43% 48% Goal Efficiency G E 40% 27% 28%
Key stats in La Liga this season:
  • Real Valladolid have the fewest clean sheets (3) in La Liga
  • Real Valladolid have the fewest scored goals (12) away in La Liga
  • Real Valladolid have the most dropped points from leading position (19) in La Liga

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Atletico Madrid 32 22 7 3 59 20 17 13 3 1 37 9 15 9 4 2 22 11 39 73
2 Real Madrid 33 21 8 4 56 24 16 11 2 3 27 10 17 10 6 1 29 14 32 71
3 Barcelona 32 22 5 5 76 29 16 11 4 1 42 16 16 11 1 4 34 13 47 71
4 Sevilla 33 22 4 7 49 26 16 12 1 3 25 10 17 10 3 4 24 16 23 70
5 Real Sociedad 32 13 11 8 50 34 17 7 6 4 28 20 15 6 5 4 22 14 16 50
6 Real Betis 33 14 8 11 42 45 17 8 5 4 24 20 16 6 3 7 18 25 -3 50
7 Villarreal 33 12 13 8 50 38 16 6 6 4 22 19 17 6 7 4 28 19 12 49
8 Granada 32 12 6 14 41 53 16 9 3 4 24 20 16 3 3 10 17 33 -12 42
9 Celta de Vigo 33 10 11 12 44 51 16 7 3 6 25 27 17 3 8 6 19 24 -7 41
10 Osasuna 33 10 10 13 31 39 17 6 5 6 18 20 16 4 5 7 13 19 -8 40
11 Athletic Club 31 9 11 11 39 33 15 7 4 4 23 13 16 2 7 7 16 20 6 38
12 Levante 33 9 11 13 38 46 17 5 7 5 22 25 16 4 4 8 16 21 -8 38
13 Cadiz 33 9 10 14 28 49 17 4 5 8 14 26 16 5 5 6 14 23 -21 37
14 Valencia 33 8 12 13 41 48 16 6 7 3 25 19 17 2 5 10 16 29 -7 36
15 Getafe 33 8 10 15 26 39 17 5 6 6 13 11 16 3 4 9 13 28 -13 34
16 Deportivo Alaves 33 7 10 16 28 49 17 5 5 7 15 21 16 2 5 9 13 28 -21 31
17 Elche 33 6 12 15 29 49 16 4 8 4 16 20 17 2 4 11 13 29 -20 30
18 Real Valladolid 32 5 14 13 29 43 16 3 6 7 17 25 16 2 8 6 12 18 -14 29
19 Huesca 33 5 12 16 31 50 16 3 6 7 15 21 17 2 6 9 16 29 -19 27
20 Eibar 32 4 11 17 23 45 15 1 6 8 8 18 17 3 5 9 15 27 -22 23

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La Liga is the top professional level of the Spanish football league system. Is is often referred to as the Primera División and is considered one of the absolute top leagues of Europe and the world. 20 teams play 380 fixtures from August to May to create a final league table.