Athletic has once again made San Mamés its great strength. As it happened in the last season, the Bilbao Campo has been the great ally of the Lions to hold a large 24-25 League. There are still three days to certify the fourth place that the team occupies since December, but nothing can tarnish the great career at home, something that also occurred in the previous campaign.
The numbers do not deceive. The Valverde team has only conceded a defeat in the last 36 commitments of the regularity tournament played in Bilbao. It was against Atlético de Madrid on the fourth day of the current course, in the already distant August 31, 2024. A serious defensive error allowed Correa Mark the triumph goal in the discount time when everything was aimed at the distribution of points. To find the previous lost game, you have to go back to the first day of League 23-24, when Real Madrid took the victory with justice on August 12, 2023. Since then, the lions have added 23 victories (12 on 23-24 and 11 in the current one), six draws in each of them and the defeat cited against the mattresses who could have finished in a tie.
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The only Spanish League team that can say the same is Atlético, which has only fallen defeated in the Metropolitan on one occasion, against Barça on day 28 (2-4). The culés, who have the title in their hand after winning the classic to Real Madrid, have lost three meetings in Montjuïc, the same as Villarreal and Betis in ceramics and Benito Villamarín respectively, the two Athletic rivals in the fight for the fourth place. The whites, seconds in the qualifying table, the knee has brought two opportunities in the Santiago Bernabéu.
There are only seven other teams in the other four major European championships that match this Lions Registry. This is Liverpool and Aston Villa de Unai Emery In the Premier, Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga, Juventus and Bologna in the Italian Series and PSG and Strasbourg in the French Ligue 1. Liverpool, Bayern and PSG are already champions.
The least thrashed at home
The Athletic has added this 39 of the 64 points that reflects its locker in San Mamés to be the best room as a local behind, whites and mattresses, the three with 43. The Bilbao have marked 32 goals and have only conceded 10 to become the least thrashed as host. Second is Atlético with 14. Getafe, Atlético, Celta, Sevilla, Espanyol, Betis, Real Madrid, Valladolid, Mallorca and Rayo have been the only ones capable of drilling the goal of San Mamés. None of them have been able to score more than one goal.
The lions have managed to keep the goal at zero on eight occasions, against Valencia, Real Sociedad, Villarreal, Leganés, Girona, Osasuna, Las Palmas and last Sunday in the derby against Alavés, when the premises took a gold triumph in their goal of being room at the end of the season and achieving the Champions Plaza that also has the added award of playing the Super Cup and avoiding the first two cup qualifiers.
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Athletic only has a match in his field. It will be against Barça on the weekend of May 24 and 25 on a date yet to be determined. There is nothing at stake if the Barca ones manage to certify in the two previous meetings the title and the lions the fourth position. Before you have to visit Getafe tomorrow at the Coliseum and Valencia on Sunday in Mestalla to close a decisive week as it described it Valverde on Saturday on the day before the derby against the Gasteiztarras.
