Look what a great game! The test to define Girona’s candidacy the previous day was poor, leaving the Catalan team very far from the lead but with the full expectation of runners-up, to do so they will have to defeat the Basques and hope to be decisive in the closing of the championship. This is how the LaLiga forecasts arrive.
Best bets Athletic Bilbao vs Girona
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Gana Athletic Bilbao: 2.00 Coder
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Will they both score? Yes: 1.62 Coder
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Over 1.5 Athletic Bilbao Goals: 1.88 Coder
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Will Girona recover?
That Leicester of 2016, Premier League champion, was reborn this season with the appearance of Girona, league leader with a high level and rivaling the worst version of Barcelona and a Real Madrid under construction. Even so, he made it clear that he was going to be a worthy opponent, but it was not until the previous date, against the Merengues, that reality hit them, a 4-0 that left them on the canvas and now the question is: Can they recover?
The main achievement, permanence, has already been achieved by Girona. Their record in the current season as a visitor is only one fall, one defeat throughout the entire season outside their stadium, that against Real Madrid, adding a total of 8 wins and 3 draws, with the particularity that in In those 12 games he only kept a clean sheet twice, few for Girona’s good record.
Regarding the question about whether Girona will recover, let us remember that the Catalans already experienced it in the first round, when they lost at home against the same Merengues, by 0-3, what happened after that tough defeat was that they won 5 games in a row, until facing Athletic Bilbao, against whom they tied 1-1.
And an extra, the recovery will not only come from his way of playing, David López, a symbol of the defense could return to the rear, yes, with the absence of Yan Couto, an important return but with a loss that is still important further.
Best bets Athletic Bilbao vs Girona
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Defense, the best weapon of the Basques, but…
Here comes the juicy part of the bet and it is that Bilbao has a very good defense, only surpassed by Real Madrid and Las Palmas. Athletic Bilbao has suffered 21 goals throughout the season, 12 of them were at home, but only one in the last 5 games, where they achieved a victory in each game and if that were not enough, they have not lost points for 6 matches, in the two-two draw against Valencia.
There is a particularity, in 3 of the last 5 home games, more than 2.5 goals were scored in Athletic Bilbao’s matches. Likewise, with the exception of the 1-0 victory against Las Palmas, the rest of the home victories were by more than one goal scored by Athletic.
However, we found a big “but” in defense of the locals, and that is that Girona is one of the most important forwards in Europe, and at least in La Liga they tie at 52 scores with Real Madrid in first position, so that goals seem almost a fact, regardless of the defense.