Valencia vs Athletic Club Betting Odds, Tips, Predictions, Preview 20th January 2024

Valencia welcome Athletic Club this coming Saturday in the La Liga, with the host motivated by the possibility of closing the gap in the table on the visitors. On the other hand, the latter could distance themselves even further with a win in this exciting round 21 match.

Valencia are placed eightth with 29 points after 20 matches. Athletic Club occupy a position as threeth in the league on 41 points.

Athletic Club are feeling funky after winning four games on the bounce. They'll, of course, be eager to make it five from five against Valencia at Estadio Mestalla.

Valencia scored 14 goals, conceded 13 and fought their way to three clean sheets in their previous ten matches.

Athletic Club show off splendid stats in their last ten matches, where they hit the target 2.2 times on average per game. They scored 22 goals and conceded ten, an average of one a game. They held on for a clean sheet in four of these.

Supporters will be hoping to see a similarly thrilling encounter, as it turned out to be the last time Valencia played against Athletic Club. It finished 2-2 in a great match between the pair.

Valencia vs Athletic Club Prediction

Valencia Form

Valencia went through their last three matches with a 1-1 draw against Cartagena, a 1-4 win against Cadiz and a 1-3 defeat against Celta Vigo. In their last six La Liga home matches, Valencia have three wins, while they've drawn two and lost one. They scored seven and conceded three goals.

Athletic Club Form

In their last three matches, Athletic Club first beat Eibar 0-3, then Real Sociedad by 2-1 and finally Deportivo Alaves by 2-0. Athletic Club won twice, while also recording two draws, and two defeats in their last six away matches in the La Liga. The scoreline from these matches says eight goals conceded and seven scored.

Athletic Club picked up some decent results recently, which makes them our preferred pick, when they turn up at Estadio Mestalla to challenge Valencia.

Valencia have taken eight points from their last nine games against teams from the top half of the La Liga table. They won two of these matches with a scoreline of nine goals to 15. Athletic Club won four games, picked up 15 points, scored 14 and conceded 14 goals in their last nine games against teams from the top half of the La Liga table. Valencia have a record of eight wins, five draws and seven defeats in the La Liga this season. Athletic Club are looking at 12 wins, five draws and three defeats in the La Liga.

Valencia vs Athletic Club Squads

Valencia Squad

The 48-year-old Valencia manager, Ruben Baraja, will select the lineup against Athletic Club from these players (the statistics in the brackets refer to scored goals and games played in the La Liga this season):

Cristian Rivero (0/0), Giorgi Mamardashvili (0/20), Jaume Domenech (0/0), Cenk Ozkacar (0/8), Cristhian Mosquera (0/18), Dimitri Foulquier (0/16), Gabriel Paulista (0/16), Hugo Guillamon (1/13), Jesus Vazquez (1/8), Jose Gaya (1/14), Marco Camus (0/0), Mouctar Diakhaby (1/12), Thierry Correia (0/18), Yarek Gasiorowski (0/9), Andre Almeida (0/8), Fran Perez (1/20), Hugo Gonzalez (0/6), Javier Guerra (4/18), Pepelu (4/20), Selim Amallah (0/12), Alberto Mari (0/3), Diego Lopez (3/20), Hugo Duro (8/20), Pablo Gozalbez (0/5), Roman Yaremchuk (1/13), Sergi Canos (1/13).

Athletic Club Squad

Here is the full team squad of Athletic Club. The 59 year-old Ernesto Valverde will select his starting lineup from the following players:

Alex Padilla (0/0), Julen Agirrezabala (0/0), Unai Simon (0/20), Aitor Paredes (1/20), Daniel Vivian (0/20), Imanol Garcia de Albeniz (0/4), Inigo Lekue (0/15), Oscar de Marcos (1/14), Peru Nolaskoain (0/2), Yeray Alvarez (0/5), Yuri Berchiche (1/14), Ander Herrera (0/13), Benat Prados (0/12), Dani Garcia (1/10), Inigo Ruiz de Galarreta (1/15), Junior Bita (0/0), Mikel Jauregizar (0/2), Mikel Vesga (3/15), Oihan Sancet (3/18), Raul Garcia (0/8), Unai Gomez (2/12), Alex Berenguer (4/19), Asier Villalibre (1/9), Carlos Mattheus (0/0), Gorka Guruzeta (8/20), Iker Muniain (0/12), Inaki Williams (8/18), Luis Bilbao (0/0), Malcom Ares (0/4), Nico Williams (3/17).

Valencia vs Athletic Club Team News

Valencia could have as many as five players on the injured and absent list, when they face up to Athletic Club on Saturday. Valencia have to alter their line-up, as both Mouctar Diakhaby and Selim Amallah get a day in the shade.

Roman Yaremchuk, Hugo Gonzalez, Andre Almeida, Dimitri Foulquier and Gabriel Paulista take up space in the treatment room and won't be eligible to be called up for home side Valencia, when they face Athletic Club this coming Saturday.

Before their next match against Valencia, Athletic Club have three players on their list of injured and absent on Saturday. Inaki Williams is ineligible for selection in the Athletic Club squad, as he is suspended.

Dani Garcia and Nico Williams all face a spell on the sidelines for Athletic Club due to various injuries.

Valencia vs Athletic Club Lineups

Valencia vs Athletic Club H2H

It finished 2-2 when Valencia last played Athletic Club and the best betting odds on yet another draw at full-time with the bookies are at 23/10. Athletic Club won three of the previous ten matches, with Valencia claiming one wins in these ten encounters. The bookies have Athletic Club to win this match at best price odds of 6/5.

Valencia vs Athletic Club Results

In the previous ten matches between Valencia and Athletic Club, both teams found the back of the net five times.

Valencia vs Athletic Club Betting Tips

Pepelu is the most prolific La Liga marksman for the home team, scoring twice recently. Athletic Club look to Alex Berenguer, hoping he can add to his current total of two La Liga goals in his latest games.

Valencia collected five wins, drew two and lost three in the 10 most games across all tournaments at Estadio Mestalla. Athletic Club won six of their previous 10 away, drew two and lost two times. Valencia kept a clean sheet five times in their 10 most recent matches on home soil. At Estadio Mestalla they hope to do so again on Saturday against Athletic Club, who kept a clean sheet in four of their last 10 away games.

Less than three came out three times in the past ten encounters between Athletic Club and Valencia, as both teams not to score was a winning bet five times. Valencia performed one goal on average, whereas Athletic Club averaged 1.1 goals. Valencia witnessed over 2.5 goals in five of their previous ten matches across all tournaments in which they averaged 1.4 goals a game. Over 2.5 goals came up in four of Athletic Club's previous ten matches across all tournaments. They managed to score an average of 2.1 goals in these matches.