Valencia vs Athletic Club Betting Odds, Tips, Predictions, Preview 18th May 2025

The penultimate round of the LaLiga season presents an interesting battle between Valencia and Athletic Club. The match takes place on Sunday at Estadio Mestalla.

Valencia are looking for a payback after suffering a disappointing defeat in their latest encounter with Athletic Club and odds favour them to pull it off.

Valencia only average a modest 1.5 goals per game in their last ten matches in this tournament, in which they scored 15 goals. They also conceded eight for an average of 0.8 per game. They kept their opponents from scoring three times.

Athletic Club scored nine goals, conceded three and kept their opponents from scoring seven times in ten matches.

Valencia lost to 1-0 Athletic Club in their last encounter. This served as payback for the 1-0 win, which Valencia dished out the match before that.

Valencia vs Athletic Club Prediction

Valencia Form

Valencia are looking to bounce back from a recent setback and get back to winning ways. In their last three matches, they first took out Las Palmas by 2-3, before beating Getafe by 3-0. The winning streak came to an end against Deportivo Alaves, who ran out 1-0 winners. Valencia won four of their last six LaLiga matches on home soil, while drawing once and losing once. They conceded five and scored eight goals.

Athletic Club Form

Athletic Club look back on their last three matches with two victories to show for their efforts. Against Manchester United, they were left empty-handed in a 4-1 defeat, but they bounced back by beating Deportivo Alaves in a 1-0 win. They followed that up with a 0-2 win against Getafe in their most recent outing. Athletic Club won twice, while also recording two draws, and two defeats in their last six away matches in the LaLiga. The scoreline from these matches says two goals conceded and three scored.

Athletic Club and Valencia always seem to tread carefully, when taking on each other, and history makes under 2.5 goals the call on Sunday.

Valencia fought their way to two wins and eight points from their last ten games against teams inside the top six. They were on target 11 times in these matches, but also let in 23 goals. Valencia have a record of 11 wins, 12 draws and 13 defeats in the LaLiga this season. Athletic Club enjoy a record of 18 wins, 13 draws and five defeats in the LaLiga.

Valencia vs Athletic Club Squads

Valencia Squad

The 42-year-old coach of the home team, Carlos Corberan, will select the lineup against Athletic Club from the squad below. The information in the brackets refers to goals scored and matches played in the LaLiga this season:

Giorgi Mamardashvili (0/32), Jaume Domenech (0/0), Stole Dimitrievski (0/4), Cesar Tarrega (2/32), Cristhian Mosquera (1/35), Dimitri Foulquier (0/32), Jesus Vazquez (0/18), Jose Gaya (0/22), Max Aarons (0/3), Mouctar Diakhaby (2/11), Rodrigo Abajas (0/1), Thierry Correia (0/0), Yarek Gasiorowski (0/15), Andre Almeida (0/32), Enzo Barrenechea (1/27), Hugo Guillamon (0/12), Ivan Jaime (0/7), Javier Guerra (3/34), Lucas Nunez (0/0), Pepelu (2/33), Alberto Mari (0/0), Diego Lopez (8/36), Fran Perez (0/24), Hamza Bellari (0/0), Hugo Duro (11/29), Luis Rioja (5/35), Rafa Mir (0/18), Sergi Canos (0/17), Umar Sadiq (5/21), Warren Madrigal (0/0).

Athletic Club Squad

Listed below is the full squad of Athletic Club players that the manager Ernesto Valverde will choose from for the upcoming game:

Julen Agirrezabala (0/14), Unai Simon (0/19), Aitor Paredes (3/21), Andoni Gorosabel (0/20), Daniel Vivian (4/30), Inigo Lekue (0/14), Oscar de Marcos (0/25), Unai Nunez (0/9), Yeray Alvarez (1/21), Yuri Berchiche (0/28), Benat Prados (1/28), Inigo Ruiz de Galarreta (0/24), Mikel Jauregizar (2/32), Mikel Vesga (0/24), Nico Williams (5/28), Oihan Sancet (15/27), Peio Canales (0/8), Unai Gomez (1/30), Adama Boiro (0/17), Aingeru Olabarrieta (0/1), Alex Berenguer (5/34), Alvaro Djalo (1/17), Gorka Guruzeta (7/35), Inaki Williams (6/33), Maroan Sannadi (1/14).

Valencia vs Athletic Club Team News

Valencia vs Athletic Club Lineups

Valencia vs Athletic Club H2H

Valencia lost to 1-0 Athletic Club in their last encounter. This served as payback for the 1-0 win, which Valencia dished out the match before that. Valencia have a 10% win rate against Athletic Club, who won four of these matches. The total record reads 1-5-4, which is worth keeping in mind before you make a choice for your next accumulator, depending on your betting strategy.

Valencia vs Athletic Club Results

A high scoring match is a fairly rare occurrence when Valencia face Athletic Club as under 2.5 goals happened in seven times in the last ten matches. Under 2.5 goals is best priced at odds of 2/3 with the bookies.

Valencia vs Athletic Club Betting Tips

It has been a great season for Oihan Sancet who bagged 15 for his club so far and bringing that kind of form to the table is crucial for the success of Athletic Club.

Valencia claimed all three points seven times in their last 10 home matches across all tournaments, while also drawing one along the way. They endured defeat in two of the games in this run. Athletic Club won two of their last 10 games away, while drawing four and losing four in this series of matches. Valencia kept a clean sheet five times in their previous 10 matches on home soil, while, Athletic Club have been able to keep a clean sheet in five of their last 10 games away from home.

Under 2.5 goals happened three times in the last ten encounters between these two rivals. Valencia managed an average of 0.8 goals, with Athletic Club averaging 1.2 goals in these. Both teams not to score was a winning bet five times in this run of matches. Valencia saw over 2.5 goals in four of their last ten matches across all tournaments, as they scored an average of 1.5 goals during this run. Over 2.5 goals appeared in three of the last ten matches that Athletic Club played across all tournaments. They scored one time on average in the process.