Ath Bilbao vs Girona prediction: SPAIN: LaLiga betting tips on match 2025-02-07 15:15.
[p]While Athletic Club may be enjoying the longest active unbeaten run in La Liga which stretches 13 matches (W7, D6) – their best such run in the competition since 1985 – the Lions’ form makes for concerning reading in 2025. Since scraping past lower-tier Logroñés on penalties in the Copa del Rey, Ernesto Valverde’s men have won just twice in seven matches across all competitions (D2, L3).[/p]
[p]Despite that, Athletic find themselves in the La Liga top-four and hunting down qualification for the UEFA Champions League, a competition they last participated in back in 2014/15. They’ll be confident of maintaining their gap to the chasing pack on home soil where they’ve lost just once in 29 home league matches (W18, D10), with only Real and Atlético Madrid earning more points on their own turf in the Spanish top-flight this season.[/p]
[p]Visitors Girona have European aspirations of their own, and with their continental campaign over for the year, they have nothing left to distract them from that goal. Michel’s men brought a timely end to a four-match losing streak by seeing off Las Palmas last week (2-1), though concerning away form suggests backing that up at San Mamés will be difficult.[/p]
[p]That’s because Girona have emerged victorious from just one of their last seven trips across all competitions (D1, L5), while they’ve already suffered as many La Liga away defeats as they did in the whole of last season (five). Those are worrying omens ahead of a trip to Athletic where they’ve lost three of the last four H2Hs as visitors (W1), but having won the reverse fixture 2-1 in October, they could actually do the top-flight double over the Lions for just the second time.[/p]
[p]Players to watch: Athletic’s Oihan Sancet netted one of his eight goals in La Liga this term in the reverse fixture, and he needs just two more to match his best-ever scoring season in the competition. Each of his three strikes came after half-time, just as all of Cristhian Stuani’s last eight club goals did – the Uruguayan has only scored more against Getafe and Real Madrid in La Liga than the six he’s notched against Athletic.[/p]
[p]Hot stat: The last two H2Hs at San Mamés produced exactly five goals (ATH: W1, L1).[/p]
[p][i]Written by Ryan Fisher[/i][/p]