Genk – Athletic Bilbao (LIVE STREAM)

Genk and Athletic Bilbao play at Cristal Arena in a match of the Europa League (Group Stage). These two teams have never met before, so this will be his first direct confrontation. It required special attention to the home condition / off, as both teams have significantly different results in their home and away games.
Genk Analysis
The home team comes in this 3rd round of Group F in the 1st place with 3 points earned after 1 win and 1 loss. In his first lost out to Rapid Vienna by (3-2). In the 2nd round, he won at home to Sassuolo by (3-1). This is a team affected by the home factor, stronger when you play in front of their fans, since in the last 30 matches recorded 6 wins, 3 draws and 6 losses as a visitor, with 29 goals scored and 19 conceded, against 12 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses at home, with 36 goals scored and 14 conceded. The team arrives at this meeting after a draw off with the Royal Mouscron by Excel (2-2). In the last four games played at home in the Europa League, Genk won 4.

In this competition, won the last 4 games played en their stadium. His attack is marked regularly, since it has achieved in 7 of the last 8 games in this competition. The staff does not usually have difficulty to open the scoring: managed to make the first goal in 7 of the last 8 matches for the Europa League, these 7 reached the interval lead in all and managed to keep the advantage until the end of 90 ‘in 5. There are 1 periods highlighted in the last 20 matches played at home in all competitions: 7 suffered their 19 goals between the minutes (76’-90 ‘).

Genk comes to this game with a tie 2-2 in front of the Mouscron, adding the third consecutive game without losing: the goals were scored by Trezeguet and Viola. In the last game the Europa League Genk beat Sassuolo 3-1. In this home game the coach should keep the team in 4-3-3 Karelis being the most offensive reference: this player is the top scorer with 5 goals scored. Apparently the coach can not count on Tshimanga, Uronen, Dante Vanzeir and Malinovsky, all injured.
Analysis of Athletic Bilbao
After 1 win and 1 loss, the visiting team arrives in this 3rd round in 4th place in Group F with three points earned. In the previous round, won at home against Rapid Vienna by (1-0), after the first match in the group stage having lost by (3-0) away against Sassuolo. This is a stronger team when playing in their stadium, for the last 30 games recorded 4 wins, 6 draws and 5 losses as a visitor; against 10 wins, 2 draws and 3 defeats in their stadium. In the last game he played for the Primera Division, won the Real Sociedad at home for (3-2). His last game as a visitor went to the Friendlies and ended with a victory (0-4) against the Sestao River. In the last 10 games as a visiting Athletic Bilbao has won 4, drawn 1 and lost 5. The team allowed goals to the opponent in 7 of the last 10 games, so his defense needs to improve, but their attack has scored regularly since managed achieved in 8 of the last 10 games.

The Team Athletic Bilbao comes to this game with a win over Real Sociedad in game Aduriz, Williams and Muniain scored the goals of victory. Like his opponent, the visiting team won the last game for the Europa League, against Rapid Vienna 1-0. This game prevents that the coach Ernesto Valverde align the usual 4-2-3-1 privileging the ball and organized attacks on the side: Williams is a very fast and proficient in driving the ball player. Already Aduriz is the top scorer of the home team with 5 goals scored. For this game the coach can not count on Aketxe, Bóveda, Beñat and Arrizabalaga, all injured.