Athletic Bilbao vs Osasuna - prediction, team news, lineups

Just a constituent separates Athletic Bilbao and Osasuna up of Tuesday's La Liga brushwood astatine San Mames.

Los Leones caput into matchday 32 successful 11th presumption in the league table, 2 places down their midweek opponents. 

Match preview

Athletic person enjoyed signicant occurrence successful Ernesto Valverde's 3rd spell successful charge, ending their 40-year hold for Copa del Rey glory successful 2024 and securing a top-four decorativeness successful the 2024-25 campaign.

However, they person fallen abbreviated of those standards successful the existent campaign, yet contributing to Valverde's determination to permission his beloved nine astatine the extremity of the season.

Valverde's broadside whitethorn inactive person hopes of closing the six-point shortage to the apical six, but they volition besides beryllium wary of the aforesaid spread separating them from the bottommost three, particularly arsenic they are retired of signifier with 4 defeats successful their 5 matches.

Athletic suffered their seventh location league decision successful their astir caller outing against Villarreal, which saw Gorka Guruzeta nett a precocious consolation successful a narrow 2-1 loss. 

Los Leones volition present look to debar suffering consecutive location La Liga defeats for the archetypal clip since April/May 2023. 

They tin astatine slightest instrumentality assurance from the information they person avoided decision successful 9 of their erstwhile 10 La Liga meetings with Osasuna (W4, D5).

Osasuna, meanwhile, are sitting seven points wide from the driblet zone and 5 points adrift of sixth-placed Celta Vigo up of the travel to San Mames.

Alessio Lisci's broadside person won conscionable 1 of their erstwhile six matches, though they person managed to debar decision successful their past 3 outings.

After squeezing past Girona by a 1-0 scoreline, Osasuna played retired an entertaining 2-2 scoreline with Alaves earlier they drew 1-1 successful their astir caller clash against Real Betis.

Ante Budimir kept his composure from the punishment spot to cancel retired Abde Ezzalzouli's opener astatine El Sadar, making it 9 consecutive location games without decision since losing to Real Sociedad successful November. 

While they boast the fifth-best location grounds successful La Liga, Los Rojillos caput connected their travels with the joint-third worst distant record, having mustered conscionable 10 points from their 16 top-flight roadworthy trips.

Having recorded conscionable 2 distant league wins each season, Osasuna volition person their enactment chopped retired to assertion their archetypal triumph astatine San Mames since a 1-0 occurrence successful February 2020. 

Athletic Bilbao La Liga form:

D L L W L L

Athletic Bilbao signifier (all competitions):

L L L W L L 

Osasuna La Liga form:

L D L W D D

Team News

Athletic midfielder Benat Prados is continuing to enactment connected his rehabilitation from an anterior cruciate ligament injury. 

Antoni Gorosabel could regenerate Inigo Lekue aft featuring arsenic a half-time substitute successful the constrictive decision implicit Villarreal.

Nico Williams is acceptable to clasp his spot successful the lineup aft making his archetypal commencement successful 2 months successful what has been an injury-hit play for the Athletic star.

As for Osasuna, they stay without semipermanent absentee Iker Benito, who is recovering from a superior genu injury.

Asier Osambela volition service the 2nd crippled of his two-match ban, portion Alejandro Catena volition implicit a one-game suspension aft picking up his 10th yellowish paper of the season.

Flavian Boyomo volition instrumentality from his ain suspension to regenerate Catena successful the centre of Osasuna’s backline.

Athletic Bilbao imaginable starting lineup:

Simon; Gorosabel, Vivian, Laporte, Berchiche; Jauregizar, Ruiz de Galarreta; I. Williams, Sancet, N. Williams; Guruzeta

Osasuna imaginable starting lineup:

Herrera; Rosier, Boyomo, Herrando, Galan; Moncayola, I. Munoz; Garcia, Oroz, V. Munoz; Budimir

We say: Athletic Bilbao 1-1 Osasuna

Athletic travel into the crippled connected the backmost of a mediocre tally of results, but they person avoided decision successful their past 5 meetings with Osasuna, and we deliberation they volition widen that by playing retired a gully against a squad that has recovered wins hard to travel by connected the road. 

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