{"id":1580,"date":"2023-12-03T09:17:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T09:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogv2.highbet.com\/athletic-bilbao-vs-barcelona-laliga-highbet-blog\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T11:06:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T11:06:52","slug":"athletic-bilbao-barcelona-highbet-laliga-2023-pre-match-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highbet.co.uk\/blog\/athletic-bilbao-barcelona-highbet-laliga-2023-pre-match-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletic Bilbao vs Barcelona &#8211; LaLiga &#8211; HighBet Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight you have a chance to enjoy the Spanish match-up between Athletic Bilbao and Barcelona. The hosting team currently sits in 9th position with a total of 33 points. The visitors from Catalonia on the other side are the leaders in LaLiga with a total of 62 points on their account.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona beat Atletico Bilbao in their head-to-head match this season. So tonight it\u2019s going to be interesting to see if the boys from Bilbao will manage to avenge Barcelona at Estadio San Mam\u00e9s.<\/p>\n<h2>Athletic Club<\/h2>\n<p>The Red and Whites till now managed to win 9 duels, followed by 6 draws, and 9 defeats. Unfortunately, after beating Cadiz (4:1) and Valencia (1:2), Athletic Bilbao lost to Atletico Madrid (1:0) and Girona (2:3). These bad results were followed by defeat in Copa Del Rey semi-finals against Osasuna (1:0). Anyhow, in the previous round Athletic Bilbao visited Rayo Vallecano and performed a goalless match.<\/p>\n<p>But tonight, they must show their best in order to avoid losing the match against the league\u2019s leaders.<\/p>\n<h2>FC Barcelona<\/h2>\n<p>Barca is on a very good path to winning the title this season. They just need to sustain their form at a high level and recover quickly after occasional bad performances. So far Barcelona won 20 games, and also added 2 draws and 2 losses. Their last defeat was against Almeria by 1:0. But Barca bounced back right away by beating Real Madrid (0:1) in Copa Del Rey\u2019s semi-finals and Valencia in the previous LaLiga round by 1:0.<\/p>\n<p>So tonight they will set another attacking formation and go for the 21st LaLiga victory for the season.<\/p>\n<h2>H2H Brief History<\/h2>\n<p>Back in October Barcelona welcomed Athletic Bilbao and won the match with a final score of 4:0.<\/p>\n<h2>Verdict<\/h2>\n<p>We expect another exciting match-up tonight with many goal-scoring chances. The favorite for the win will be the visiting team, FC Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p>Our prediction for this match: Market (OVER\/UNDER) <strong>Tip: OVER 2.5<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Highbet offers you the best odds for the biggest sports events on the globe!<\/p>\n<p>So, <a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.highbet.co.uk\/promotions\">go ahead<\/a> and check out highbet\u2019s <a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.highbet.co.uk\/prematch\">betting offer<\/a> for this match, pick your prediction and enjoy the game even more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight you have a chance to enjoy the Spanish match-up between Athletic Bilbao and Barcelona. The hosting team currently sits in 9th position with a total of 33 points. The visitors from Catalonia on the other side are the leaders in LaLiga with a total of 62 points on their account. Barcelona beat Atletico Bilbao [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highbet.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highbet.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highbet.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highbet.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highbet.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1580"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.highbet.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7287,"href":"https:\/\/www.highbet.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions\/7287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highbet.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highbet.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highbet.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highbet.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}