Marseille vs Athletic Bilbao for Thursday's Europa League game in France. Marseille look to take advantage of their host against Athetlic Bilbao as they face in the first leg of this Europa League game. read on for all predictions and our free bet.marseille has found their season turned bad recently but they will hope to improve on that as they face Athletic Bilbao on Thursday, with the Europa League being their only realistic silver chance of the season.
the weekend saw them draw against Nantes, to make it four games without a win. .two of the previous three are doing away from home to PSG though, both ending 3-0 for Ligue 1 leaders to put Marseille out of Coupe de France and get them 18 points adrift of the top of Ligue 1 standings.
before that Les Olympiens appeared excellent, winning ten of the previous 12 and losing. This included a 3-0 victory over Sporting Braga in the Europa League final round, the first leg result which meant a 1-0 defeat they suffered in Portugal could be forgiven.
athletic Bilbao also not great. In fact, they had a summer in the country, were 15th in La Liga and knocked out of the Copa del Rey all the way back in November against the 3rd tier formentera.
It's no better either. they lost in Sevilla on Saturday to clinch two wins, six draws and four defeats in their last 12 games in all competitions. Three of these defeats have come in the last five games, including a 2-1 defeat at home to Spartak Moscow.
the signs do not look promising for Bilbao. The Spanish side have lost three of their last four days and face an unbeaten Marseille side since September at Orange Velodrome. the hosts have won 12 and drew three of their 15 home games since then, and have kept a clean sheet in these ten matches. this makes Marseille Win look like the best choice here, but we also support Marseille Win and Under 2.5 Goal along with the correct 2-0 prediction score.
Florian Thauvin is a prominent Marseille player this season. he has scored 11 of his 16 Ligue 1 goals this season at home and he has scored six goals in his last four competitive home games so we support him for our goalscorers prediction anytime.