Athletic Club vs Real Betis LaLiga Match Preview or Key Statistics 📊
Athletic have only lost one of their last seven LaLiga games against Real Betis (W5 D1), with that defeat coming away from home, 2-3 at Benito Villamarin in December 2019.
At home, Athletic have won their last six LaLiga games against Real Betis, keeping a clean sheet in the last three, their longest winning run against them at home in the competition.
Athletic have lost two of their last three home LaLiga games against Andalusian sides (W1), vs Sevilla and Cádiz, as many defeats as in their previous 28 games at home against these sides in the competition (W22 D4 L2).
Real Betis have only won one of their last 10 away LaLiga games against Basque sides (D3 L6), winning the most recent one (1-0 vs Alavés in September) – they last won back-to-back away matches against such opposition in December 2003 (vs Alavés and Real Sociedad).
Athletic have faced a league-low 2.13 shots on target per game on average this season, less than any other side in the Top 5 European leagues.
Real Betis have conceded the first goal of the game on more occasions than any other LaLiga team this season, losing all of them (5/5).
Real Betis’s Sergio Canales has provided a league-high, four assists this season (alongside Atlético de Madrid’s Ángel Correa), and only in two of his previous 13 seasons in the competition has he provided more assists (five in the 2017/18 and six in the 2019/20).
Athletic’s Iñaki Williams has scored four goals against Real Betis in LaLiga, more than against any other opponent (alongside vs Atlético de Madrid and Real Sociedad) but none at San Mamés.
Iker Muniain has scored three of the last five Athletic goals at home against Real Betis. The Navarre player has scored in three of his last four games at San Mamés against the green and white side (three goals on aggregate).
After six consecutive wins against Athletic in LaLiga between 2007 and 2009 (all of them as Villarreal manager), Real Betis boss Manuel Pellegrini has only won one of his last eight games against the Basque side in the competition (W3 D3 L2).
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