Athletic Bilbao – Real Madrid Prediction & Preview and Betting Tips (18.03.2017)

Prediction for Athletic Bilbao – Real Madrid

Over 2.5 goals and both mark @ 1.95

Let’s go with a forecast that I think the quota may fall during the week.

Athletic Bilbao

The Madrid arrives to San Mamés with many doubts in their game, in defense and in the goal.
With a Navas questioned for his latest performances, rumors are emerging that Madrid seeks a goalkeeper for next year. All the news affect adversely the goalkeeper of Madrid, who is not going through his best moment and is seen with many doubts, fitting silly goals like the one we saw before Betis.

However, Zidane remains determined to ratify Navas as his starter. Against an Athletic who arrives very confident after winning the Basque derby, I think he will have a tough test and it will be quite difficult to leave the goal to zero.

Another of the serious problems that Madrid has is that they defend with 7 players or even 5 sometimes, since the BBC does not usually come down. We saw it in the last meetings, where Bale, Benzema and Cr7 stayed above. This against a Basque set with the strike of Williams, Aduriz or Raul Garcia can be devastating. If to this, we add the physical slump of players like Kroos and the null defense of others like Ramos (Although he then solves it scoring goals), I anticipate a movidito party in the area of ​​Keylor Navas.

Real Madrid

On the other hand, Athletic’s defense is also suffering a lot. Laporte is not performing at the expected level and is committing a lot of errors, which end in counterattacks of the rival.
Sample of it, is that teams like Granada, Depor, Sporting or Apoel managed to score goal.

If we see the statistics of both teams, we get that of 14 matches where Athletic has played in local league, in 9 we would have the green, and only in 5 we would paint it of red, where of those 5 encounters, we would have teams that defend well as Alavés, Villarreal, others who are denied face to face like Malaga or Osasuna, and the last in the first day before a Barcelona that ended up asking for the time.

For its part, Madrid of 12 away matches in the league, we would get the green in 8, for 4 in which they played against teams like Atletico Madrid (Missed the Atletico goal), Barcelona (1st part with much fear), Real Sociedad and Espanyol (The first days of league).

The last time that the Madrid left the goal to zero in league outside of house, was before Atletico of Madrid, where curiously they did not play Ramos, Kroos, Casemiro nor Benzema of headlines.
Therefore, we are no longer talking about the goals scored are the fault of Keylor, if not, of a Madrid who does not know how to defend, and who often leaves parties frequently.

Therefore, and before a stadium as imposing as it is San Mamés, I think it will go wrong and end up fitting goal. Then the strike of the top, should be enough against an Athletic who also suffers without a ball.

So, with two defenses that make water everywhere, and two attacks with a lot of quality and power, we will have a party movidito, with alternatives on both sides and many occasions.