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

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Competition: Spain La Liga
Competition: Thu 27.April
Match begins: 20:00 (UTC)
Venue: San Mamés Barria (53289 seats)

Athletic Club and Sevilla have delivered a "par" performance until now, to use a golf expression. Both teams have mid-table places in the La Liga.

Insights:
  • Athletic Club have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
  • Sevilla have won significantly less corners away then at home.

These teams have little in common geographically as Sevilla have to travel 800 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.

Sevilla 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

The story so far in the La Liga for Athletic Club at their home stadium (San Mamés Barria) is 7 wins, 3 draws and 5 defeats.

Club enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Almeria's place. The match ended 2-1 with Williams and de Marcos scoring. Defender de Marcos got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 8.03/10. Marcos scored one goal and won 6 of 7 duels.

Previous to that game, a home match hosting Real Sociedad in a game that was won 2-0.

Athletic Club are traveling soon after this match as the La Liga match at Mallorca awaits in four days.

Club has scored 20 league goals at home this season, in 15 matches. 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 have only conceded 11 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Sevilla form and stats

The visitors are W4-D4-L7 on the road this term. That's in the La Liga. It could be a hat trick of victories away for Sevilla, as they have won on their previous two travels.

Impressive finishing from En-Nesyri and Mir secured the home win 2-1 against Villarreal in their previous game. World class coaching! That was the thoughts of manager Etxebarria when En-Nesyri scored the winning goal after coming on as a substitute in the 58th minute. Attacker Mir got a player rating of 7.54 in the game. "Man of the match" Mir scored one goal.

Before that one, the win at home against Manchester United in the Europa League (3-0). We have checked recent matches where Sevilla have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 5 games were 0 victories, 3 draws and 2 defeats.

After this away game Sevilla return home for a La Liga game against Girona. That game is only four sleeps after this.

Sevilla find the net regularly in their away games. 17 goals from 15 away fixtures in the league. Sevilla have conceded 26 goals in these games. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 2 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

This is what happened when the sides met previously this season; Sevilla - Athletic Club 1-1. Data for the previous ten meetings featuring these two participants are: four wins for Club, two draws and four wins for Sevilla. Over 2,5 goals: two times; under 2,5 goals: eight games.

Top Goalscorers

Athletic ClubO. Sancet Tirapu
O. Sancet Tirapu
8 goals
Athletic ClubI. Williams Arthuer
I. Williams Arthuer
8 goals
SevillaY. En-Nesyri
Y. En-Nesyri
8 goals

Athletic Club missing players

Sevilla missing players

Athletic Club Sevilla
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
30 15 4 Played P 5 15 30
13 7 1 Won W 1 4 10
7 3 2 Drew D 2 4 8
10 5 1 Lost L 2 7 12
42 20 5 Scored S 5 17 37
30 11 5 Conceded C 6 26 45
83% 80% 50% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
60% 47% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 80% 93% 90%
50% 33% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 40% 47% 50%
33% 27% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 20% 17%
13% 20% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 13% 10%
40% 20% 50% BTTS BTTS 80% 67% 63%
37% 53% 50% Clean Sheets C S 20% 20% 20%
40% 47% 50% Failed to Score F T 0% 13% 17%
 
6.2 7.5 8.5 Corners for (avg) C F 3 2.9 4.7
3.5 2.5 3.2 Corners against (avg) C A 4.6 5.4 4.5
2.1 2.1 1.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.4 3.7 3.4
4 1 0 Red cards R C 1 4 11
 
14.7 16.9 17.2 Shots (avg) S ( 6.8 9.3 12.6
4.7 5.1 5.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.2 2.9 4
30% 26% 23% Goal Efficiency G E 45% 39% 31%
 
10.8 9.1 7 Shots against (avg) S A 13.6 14.6 13.6
3.6 2.7 3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5 4.8 4.5
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.
  • Sevilla have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Sevilla 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 Barcelona 30 24 4 2 54 9 15 12 3 0 28 2 15 12 1 2 26 7 45 76
2 Real Madrid 30 20 5 5 63 24 15 10 4 1 36 12 15 10 1 4 27 12 39 65
3 Atletico Madrid 30 18 6 6 47 22 15 9 3 3 28 12 15 9 3 3 19 10 25 60
4 Real Sociedad 30 16 6 8 39 29 15 8 4 3 19 13 15 8 2 5 20 16 10 54
5 Real Betis 30 14 6 10 39 33 15 8 3 4 22 15 15 6 3 6 17 18 6 48
6 Villarreal 30 14 5 11 39 30 14 8 2 4 20 12 16 6 3 7 19 18 9 47
7 Athletic Club 30 13 7 10 42 30 15 7 3 5 20 11 15 6 4 5 22 19 12 46
8 Osasuna 30 11 8 11 28 32 15 8 1 6 17 17 15 3 7 5 11 15 -4 41
9 Mallorca 30 11 7 12 29 31 15 7 4 4 16 11 15 4 3 8 13 20 -2 40
10 Rayo Vallecano 30 10 10 10 36 36 15 6 5 4 21 17 15 4 5 6 15 19 0 40
11 Girona 30 10 8 12 44 43 15 8 3 4 27 19 15 2 5 8 17 24 1 38
12 Sevilla 30 10 8 12 37 45 15 6 4 5 20 19 15 4 4 7 17 26 -8 38
13 Celta de Vigo 30 9 9 12 36 42 15 5 5 5 21 17 15 4 4 7 15 25 -6 36
14 Real Valladolid 30 10 5 15 26 48 15 7 3 5 16 16 15 3 2 10 10 32 -22 35
15 Cadiz 30 7 11 12 23 42 15 4 6 5 14 21 15 3 5 7 9 21 -19 32
16 Getafe 30 7 10 13 28 39 15 5 5 5 16 16 15 2 5 8 12 23 -11 31
17 Almeria 30 8 6 16 36 52 16 8 2 6 24 21 14 0 4 10 12 31 -16 30
18 Valencia 30 8 6 16 32 36 15 6 3 6 21 15 15 2 3 10 11 21 -4 30
19 Espanyol 30 6 10 14 35 49 15 3 5 7 18 25 15 3 5 7 17 24 -14 28
20 Elche 30 2 7 21 20 61 15 1 4 10 11 27 15 1 3 11 9 34 -41 13

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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.