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Peter Green - January 16, 2023
Athletic Bilbao vs Espanyol Predictions and Free Tips from our expert tipsters when the teams go head-to-head in the Spanish Copa Del Rey on Wednesday, 18 January 2023.
Athletic Bilbao have been delivering average displays in Laliga lately. They are sitting at 8th position, two spots below the safe zone in the standings.
Their Wednesday’s counterparts, Espanyol is at 14th position in the same list. They both will lock horns in a different match-up, a Copa Del Rey fixture at Estadio San Mames.
Athletic Bilbao won two, drew two and lost one of the last five encounters against Espanyol. Both teams to score option landed in three of the past four encounters.
Bilbao won two of the past three meetings at this stadium. Both those fixtures had goals in plenty.
Bilbao is on a three-game unbeaten streak at home in the league. Two of them were clean sheet victories.
On the other side, Espanyol had a winless streak for six games on the road before sealing a win in their latest outing against Getafe.
Moreover, Athletic Bilbao have a slight edge over Espanyol in the recent tradition of this match-up. Therefore, we expect a win for them on Wednesday.
Both Athletic Bilbao and Espanyol have played more than 50% games with over 2.5 goals ft in Laliga. Their recent h2h matches at this venue had high-scoring conclusions too. Thus, we expect this fixture to have over 2.5 goals ft.
The defensive line of both these sides have allowed more than the goals their attacking side have scored. Having such a defensive line in possession, we can expect them to leak one here. Both teams to score option is likely to land in this match for all the above reasons.
Athletic Bilbao is having a comparatively better form and at home, they will have more advantage rather than this Espanyol side, who have been recording winless outcomes consistently on the road.
However, we expect Espanyol to score one during the course of this game. The correct score of 2-1 in favor of the home side at 8.50 odds is our main betting pick.
Both teams to score at 2.00 odds seems to be a decent alternative considering the weak defenses of both.
