Athletic Bilbao - FC Barcelona Betting: Expect lots of goals at San Mames

The Catalan giants will be hoping to continue their fine start to the season when they travel to the Basque country on Sunday Athletic Bi...

The Catalan giants will be hoping to continue their fine start to the season when they travel to the Basque country on Sunday

Athletic Bilbao host FC Barcelona at Estadio San Mames in the second weekend of the Spanish La Liga.

Ernesto Valverde would have been hoping to continue from where his team left off in last season’s strong fifth place finish but they started the new campaign on a bad note going down to Sporting Gijon last weekend.

Los Leones are generally strong on home soil and will draw confidence from last season’s 4-0 thrashing of Barca in the Spanish Super Cup. They will also be looking for first league win over their opponents since the 2013/2014 season at odds of (6.50) with Nairabet.

As reigning La Liga champions, the Blaugrana have started their season with a bang following a 6-2 demolition of Real Betis at the Camp Nou. This also comes with a 5-0 aggregate win over Sevilla in the Spanish Super Cup.

 Barcelona are on a nine game winning streak and enjoy five league victories on the bounce against their Basque opponents. One can surely expect another straight win at odds of(1.50) with the same firm.

The game going in the way of a stalemate is priced at (4.70).

Athletic have kept just one clean sheet in their last 37 La Liga games against Barca. This gives Luis Enrique’s men the nod to get the first goal of the game at (1.40).

Barcelona have scored an average of five goals per game in their last six Liga matches. This game shouldn’t be an exception and punters can back over 3.5 goals at odds of(2.35).

Barca should comfortably lead the Halftime/Fulltime market which comes in at(2.15).

Luis Suarez has scored five goals in his last three games against Athletic with two coming at San Mames. Europe’s top marksman is offered at (1.70) to score anytime.

Lionel Messi is set to make his 350th league appearance in Blaugrana colours and what better way to celebrate than with what he knows how to do best. He’s (1.65) to find the back of the net anytime.