Espanyol hope to sell some tickets for this game even though the season has been rough so far with 14 points and a 20th position in the La Liga table. Visiting Athletic Club holds 8th place with 30 pts.
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.
Espanyol form and stats
The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the La Liga this season. Espanyol, who have the most conceded goals (37) in La Liga, have only managed 0 wins, 3 draws and 7 losses from their games here at RCDE Stadium. Espanyol are slowly digging their own grave here at RCDE Stadium with the depressing streak of not having won a home game in ten attempts. The last victory here came in the Sevilla match.
Espanyol lost their last game at Real Sociedad (placed 6th) after a 0-2 scoreline. Before that match, a La Liga win away at Villarreal.
This is expected to be a close game, with Espanyol perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Espanyol as a small favourite), we find eight games. Espanyol has won 0 of these, drawn 4 and lost 4.
Espanyol have scored 9 league goals here from 10 matches, not a lot. Espanyol are struggling defensively, conceding on average more than two goals per home game (22 from 10 played).
Athletic Club form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Athletic Club so far with only 9 points returning home. The records show 1-6-3 (win-draw-lose). Athletic Club has showed their ability to avoid defeat with four draws in a row, but are also dodging victories. They last avoided the draw 47 days ago, in the Real Betis fixture. Visiting Athletic Club has seen their last two away games both end with a tied score and one point each.
Athletic Club are the visiting side once again, their previous game being the 1-1 draw at Elche. Preceding that match was the 1-1 draw at home vs Celta de Vigo.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found seven similar matches played by Athletic Club in our archives, and the results are: 1 win for Athletic Club, 2 draws and 4 defeats.
The attacking power of Athletic Club when travelling is not overwhelming with 7 goals scored from 10 league matches away. 10 goals have been conceded by Athletic Club in these games.
Head 2 Head
The two sides played each other earlier this season: Athletic Club - Espanyol 3-0. Head-to-head totals (for the last ten meetings): Espanyol won 4 games, 3 matches ended with a draw and Athletic Club has 3 wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: 3 / 7Top Goalscorers
  R. García Escudero 6 goals |  I. Muniain Goñi 4 goals |  I. Williams Arthuer 4 goals |
Espanyol missing players
Athletic Club missing players
| Espanyol | Athletic Club | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 20 | 10 | 5 | Played | P | 3 | 10 | 20 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 7 |
| 5 | 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 2 | 6 | 9 |
| 12 | 7 | 4 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 16 | 9 | 5 | Scored | S | 1 | 7 | 21 |
| 37 | 22 | 12 | Conceded | C | 2 | 10 | 14 |
| 95% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 67% | 70% | 80% |
| 85% | 90% | 80% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 33% | 60% | 65% |
| 50% | 60% | 80% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 20% | 20% |
| 25% | 40% | 40% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 10% | 5% |
| 5% | 10% | 20% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 10% | 5% |
| 50% | 60% | 60% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 50% | 40% |
| 10% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 30% | 45% |
| 45% | 40% | 40% | Failed to Score | F T | 67% | 50% | 35% |
| 4.7 | 5.3 | 5.8 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 5 | 4.8 | 5.1 |
| 4.3 | 4.4 | 4.4 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 4.7 | 5.7 | 4.8 |
| 2.5 | 1.9 | 1.8 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2.3 | 2.3 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 231 | 133 | 79 | Total Shots | T S | 30 | 88 | 237 |
| 66 | 38 | 25 | Shots on Target | S O | 6 | 21 | 72 |
| 24% | 24% | 20% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 17% | 33% | 29% |
- Athletic Club has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (7)
- Espanyol has the fewest clean sheets (0) at home
- Espanyol has the fewest points (3) at home
- Espanyol has the most conceded goals (22) at home
- Espanyol has the most conceded goals (37)
- Espanyol has the most conceded goals in the second half (23)
- Espanyol has the the worst goal difference (-13) at home
- Espanyol has the the worst goal difference (-21)
- Espanyol have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Espanyol have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
- Espanyol have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Espanyol have yet to win a game at home.
- Espanyol haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
| 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 | 20 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 50 | 23 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 35 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 13 | 27 | 43 |
| 2 | Real Madrid | 20 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 38 | 13 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 22 | 7 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 16 | 6 | 25 | 43 |
| 3 | Atletico Madrid | 20 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 22 | 14 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 35 |
| 4 | Sevilla | 20 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 25 | 20 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 12 | 5 | 35 |
| 5 | Getafe | 20 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 29 | 20 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 17 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 10 | 9 | 33 |
| 6 | Real Sociedad | 20 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 33 | 28 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 18 | 11 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 15 | 17 | 5 | 31 |
| 7 | Valencia | 20 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 30 | 29 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 16 | 9 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 20 | 1 | 31 |
| 8 | Athletic Club | 20 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 21 | 14 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 30 |
| 9 | Villarreal | 20 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 34 | 28 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 20 | 13 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 14 | 15 | 6 | 28 |
| 10 | Granada | 20 | 8 | 3 | 9 | 25 | 26 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 6 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 20 | -1 | 27 |
| 11 | Real Betis | 20 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 29 | 32 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 20 | 14 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 18 | -3 | 27 |
| 12 | Levante | 20 | 8 | 2 | 10 | 26 | 30 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 11 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 11 | 19 | -4 | 26 |
| 13 | Osasuna | 20 | 5 | 10 | 5 | 26 | 25 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 16 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 1 | 25 |
| 14 | Deportivo Alaves | 20 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 21 | 29 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 6 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 23 | -8 | 23 |
| 15 | Real Valladolid | 20 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 17 | 23 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 17 | -6 | 22 |
| 16 | Eibar | 20 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 20 | 29 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 13 | 15 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 14 | -9 | 22 |
| 17 | Mallorca | 20 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 22 | 34 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 15 | 12 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 22 | -12 | 18 |
| 18 | Celta de Vigo | 20 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 17 | 30 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 19 | -13 | 16 |
| 19 | Leganes | 20 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 16 | 33 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 10 | 17 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 16 | -17 | 14 |
| 20 | Espanyol | 20 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 16 | 37 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 22 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 15 | -21 | 14 |