Athletic Bilbao v Atletico Madrid, the second leg of the Copa del Rey semi-final is scheduled for Thursday, February 29 at 10.30pm at San Mames and will be broadcast live on Digi Sport 2.

Athletic Bilbao and Atletico Madrid, Spain’s top two teams, are battling for second place in the Copa del Rey final, with the winner facing Mallorca, who have already qualified in the final act of the competition, for the trophy. The Basques started with an advantage after winning on February 7 in the tour at the Wanda Metropolitano with a score of 1-0 (Alex Berenger 25p).

Athletic Bilbao reached the semi-finals of the Copa del Rey by beating Rubi (sixth division) 2-1 (d) in the first round, Cajon (fourth division) 3-0 (d ) in the second round, Eibar in the round of 16 (second league), score 3-0 (d), in the round of 16 against Alaves, score 2-0 (a), and in the quarter-finals against Barcelona (a), score 4-2 after extra time (2-2 after 90 minutes).

In La Liga, the team coached by Ernesto Valverde is in 5th place after 26 stages with 49 points, three adrift of the Champions League position (even Atletico Madrid in 4th), and is coming off a 1-0 defeat in the championship -3. away to “Betis Sevilla”.

It should be noted that this season, regardless of the competition, only Real Madrid won on the Basque field, which has 12 wins and two draws!

Athletic Bilbao have won the Copa del Rey 23 times, most recently in 1984 after a 0-1 final against Barcelona, ​​and have lost another 16 times in the final act of the competition, most recently in 2021, 0-4 against Barcelona.

Atlético Madrid entered the competition directly in the last 16, a privilege granted to teams participating in the Spanish Super Cup, in which they beat Lugo (third division) 3-1, so Real Madrid prevail in the last 16 at home scoring 4-2 after extra time (2-2 after 90 minutes) and in the quarter-finals to eliminate Sevilla, scoring 1-0 at Wanda Metropolitano.

Diego Simeone’s side are 4th in the league after 26 matches with 52 points and are coming off the back of a 2-2 draw at Almeria in the last leg of LaLiga.

Attention, in the last 10 trips in all competitions, Madrid have achieved only two successes, one of them against Lugo, a team of the third division, in the Spanish Cup, and the other against Granada, the penultimate team of La Liga!

Atlético Madrid have won the Copa del Rey 10 times, most recently in 2013 after a 2-1 final against Real Madrid, and have lost nine more times in the final act of the competition, most recently in 2010 (0-2 against Sevilla).

Apart from the tour match, the two teams also met in the current La Liga season on 16 December 2023, when Athletic Bilbao beat Atletico Madrid 2-0 at San Mames after goals from Guruzueta (51) and Nico Williams (64).

Superbet offers odds of 1.38 on the prediction 1X: home win or draw in regular time 90 minutes of the match Athletic Bilbao – Atletico Madrid.

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