📊 Form Guide

Valencia

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Valencia will be hoping to bounce back here following the 2-1 La Liga loss in their previous game against Real Betis.

In that match, Valencia managed 47% possession and 15 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Valencia was Rioja (20'). Real Betis got 14 shots at goal with 2 on target. Ezequiel Ávila (23') and Fornals (88') scored for Real Betis.

Valencia haven’t had any problems with scoring, finding the back of the net every time they’ve gone out to play in their last 6 matches.

They have claimed a sum of 9 during that time and have conceded a total of 9. We will see if that trend can be continued on in this game.

Athletic Bilbao

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In their previous game, Athletic Bilbao drew 1-1 in the La Liga match with Real Sociedad.

In that match, Athletic Bilbao managed 55% possession and 19 attempts at goal with 4 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Athletic Bilbao was Iñigo Ruiz de Galarreta (88'). Real Sociedad got 8 shots on goal with 6 on target. Guedes (37') scored for Real Sociedad.

Over the course of their previous 6 clashes, Athletic Bilbao have amassed a total of 13 goals. Athletic Bilbao have also managed to score on each one of those occasions. During those fixtures, they’ve seen 14 goals go into their own net.

↔️ Head to head

Looking over their prior head-to-head meetings dating back to 11/02/2023 shows that Valencia have won 2 of them and Athletic Bilbao 3, with the number of drawn results standing at 1.

A combined sum of 12 goals were scored between them in these games, with 6 of them from Los Che and 6 for Los Leones. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.

The last league fixture between these clubs was La Liga match day 5 on 20/09/2025 which ended up with the score at Valencia 2-0 Athletic Bilbao.

In that match, Valencia had 44% possession and 13 shots on goal with 5 on target. The scorers were Baptiste Santamaría (73') and Duro (93').

At the other end, Athletic Bilbao got 11 shots on goal with 5 of them on target.

The match was refereed by Miguel Ángel Ortiz Arias.

🗞️ Team News: Valencia

Julen Agirrezabala (Muscle injury) and Mouctar Diakhaby (Muscle injury) aren’t available for Valencia manager Carlos Corberán.

It seems likely that Los Che should employ a 4-4-2 system this time, handing starts to Stole Dimitrievski, Dimitri Foulquier, Cesar Tarrega, Unai Nunez, Jesus Vazquez, Luis Rioja, Javier Guerra, Pepelu, Diego Lopez, Hugo Duro and Lucas Beltran.

ℹ️ Team News: Athletic Bilbao

It’s our belief that Los Leones will likely make use of a 4-2-3-1 formation, starting Alex Padilla, Andoni Gorosabel, Aymeric Laporte, Yuri Berchiche, Inigo Lekue, I. Ruiz de, Mikel Jauregizar, Nico Williams, Unai Gomez, Robert Navarro and Gorka Guruzeta.

💭 Prediction

When taking everything into account, Athletic Bilbao will need to put in a solid display to find the net against this Valencia lineup who we reckon will do enough to score at the other end and edge ahead.

We’re therefore expecting a good tussle with a 1-0 winning margin for Valencia at the end of the 90 minutes.

We’ll see what happens.

Victor Martins, 15:00 04/02/2026