Athletic Bilbao and Real Madrid face in the thirty-seventh day of LaLiga Santander, where the white team arrives with the need to add the three points to pressure the Atlético de Madrid in the fight for the league title, where the whites are two points behind the colchoneros, so they want to win to pressure them and wait for a possible puncture.
The Real Madrid occupies the second position of the classification with 78 points, behind the Athletic of Cholo Simeone, leader with 80. FC Barcelona is third with 76, while the Seville He is fourth with 74 and will try to overcome the Catalans or Madridistas if they fail in these last two days.
The team of Zinedine Zidane it continues despite having a significant number of casualties throughout the season and a very busy schedule. It comes from winning grenade on Los Cármenes by 1-4, where the goals of Modric, Rodrygo, Odriozola and Benzema gave a comfortable victory to the merengue team, which has not known defeat since last January, when they lost at home to the I raised by 1-2.
The Real Madrid seeks his only title of the season, since he lost in UEFA Champions League semi-finals against him Chelsea, where he was clearly beaten by the English team by a total of 3-1 in the tie.
The confirmed casualties of Sergio Ramos, Ferland Mendy, Raphael Varane, Dani Carvajal and Lucas Vázquez has made the team arrive in the box on the defensive plot, in addition to the internal problems it has had Zidane with Marcelo and what made him not travel to grenade, at the expense of what the coach decides to play in Bilbao.
The Athletic, meanwhile, wants to become strong in San Mamés and although he has no European goals to achieve, he knows that a home win against the whites would reinforce a very young team on which he is building his project, with young people like Villalibre, Sancet or Jon Morcillo.
The Basque team comes from suffering an ugly defeat in The Alcoraz 1-0, where the SD Huesca he was far superior. The Athletic from Marcelino It currently occupies the ninth place with 46 points, where it has shown itself as a team that is difficult to defeat but also has difficulty getting victories.
In the first round, both teams faced each other in the stadium Alfredo Di Stéfano, where he Real Madrid won 3-1 at Athletic Bilbao. The goals of Toni Kroos and the doublet of Karim Benzema it was enough for the white team to overcome the goal of Ander Capa. The Basque team lost to Raul Garcia for double warning in the first minutes.
The Athletic beat the Real Madrid by 1-2 in the semifinals of the Spanish Super Cup, last January, so it is not ruled out that they cling to that spirit to try to score against the whites.
When do you play Athletic Bilbao – Real Madrid?
The game is played today, Sunday, May 16, at 6.30 pm
Where to watch Athletic Bilbao – Real Madrid?
The encounter can be seen by Movistar LaLiga 1 (47) and by Movistar LaLiga 1 HD (443), platform dials Movistar Plus. You can follow all the information about the match live on the Sports World website.