Athletic Bilbao vs Roma Preview: Team News & Prediction
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Athletic Bilbao will fancy their chances of a second-leg comeback over Roma with home advantage being in their favour on this occasion.
Kick-off date/time: Thursday March 13th 2025: UK – 5:45pm / US ET – 1:45pm / US PT – 10:45am
How to watch on TV: UK – TNT Sports / US – Not televised
How to watch online: UK – discovery+ / US – Paramount+
Key stats:
- Athletic Club have won eight of their previous ten UEFA competition home matches against Italian teams (D1 L1).
- Athletic Club have won their previous four home UEFA Europa League matches this season.
- Athletic Club have lost only one of their last 16 home matches in all competitions (W11 D4).
- Athletic Club have only failed to score in one of their last 25 home UEFA competition matches.
- Athletic Club have scored the first goal in six of their last eight UEFA Europa League matches.
- Roma are unbeaten in their last six UEFA competition matches against Spanish teams (W2 D4).
- Roma have won their last three UEFA competition two-legged ties against Spanish teams.
- Roma have won their last three UEFA Europa League round of 16 ties.
- Roma have won 12 of their last 13 UEFA competition two-legged ties.
- Roma have lost the second leg in only one of their last 18 UEFA competition two-legged ties (W10 D7)
- Roma have lost only one of their last nine UEFA Europa League matches (W5 D3).
- Roma have won their last six matches in all competitions.
Athletic Bilbao vs Roma Prediction
Roma trailed at home to Athletic Bilbao, but rallied brilliantly to shock the visitors. Angelino equalised six minutes after Inaki Williams had put the Spaniards ahead, before a goal deep into second half stoppage time from Eldor Shomurodov sent the home fans in Rome crazy and gave Roma a precious aggregate lead. It’s unlikely that Athletic Bilbao would let a lead slip at home the way that they did in the Stadio Olimpico and their attacking prowess should overwhelm the Roma backline at some point.
The big question is whether the hosts do enough to flip the tie on its head over the course of 90 minutes. But when taking into account that only Atletico Madrid have defeated Bilbao at home in La Liga this campaign, the smart move would be at least backing them to win the second-leg. Whether it’s enough to see them ultimately progress into the quarter-finals though, is tougher to call.
Athletic Bilbao vs Roma Tip: Athletic Bilbao to win
