Valencia — Athletic Club 0:0, 17 October: match result

match finished La Liga · Matchday 9 Saturday 17 October · 19:00 UTC

Valencia 19th · 6 pts LWLDD

0 : 0 1st half 0:0

Athletic Club 14th · 9 pts DWWLD

Estadio de Mestalla · referee A. Cordero

Match predictionSafe

No goal fest expected

92% · Under 2.5 goals in 5 of 8 Athletic Club games

Prediction landed. We predicted “No goal fest expected”, and the match finished 0:0.

the market is chosen by our model: not always the obvious one, but a likely one

our forecast this is how the model saw the match before kick-off

Valencia 32% draw 27% Athletic Club 41%

The model was wrong

The most likely outcome was Athletic Club win, and the match finished 0:0. Fans backed Athletic Club win — they got it wrong.

fans 72 votes

Valencia 29% draw 18% Athletic Club 53%

Voting closed at kick-off

Match events

full timeline

D. Raba 19'

A. Laporte 38'

B. Gerenabarrena 42'

M. Jauregizar for B. Gerenabarrena 46'

L. Rioja for D. Raba 54'

D. Otorbi for H. Duro 54'

I. Ruiz de Galarreta 57'

J. Areso for J. Louis-Jean 63'

G. Guruzeta for I. Williams 63'

A. Rego for I. Ruiz de Galarreta 63'

M. Sannadi for G. Guruzeta 69'

H. Elliott for J. De Haas 74'

J. Vazquez for J. Gaya 86'

F. Ugrinic for G. Rodriguez 86'

Pepelu 87'

C. Tarrega 90'

Line-ups

starting eleven and bench

Valencia 4-2-3-1 4-2-3-1 Athletic Club

Stole Dimitrievski  
Pablo Maffeo  5 César Tárrega  12 Justin De Haas  14 José Luis Gayà  
Pepelu  2 Guido Rodríguez  
Dani Raba  8 Javier Guerra  7 Arnaut Danjuma  
Hugo Duro  

Iñaki Williams  
Álex Berenguer  28 Peio Canales  23 Robert Navarro  
Beñat Gerenabarrena  16 Iñigo Ruiz de Galarreta  
Hugo Rincón  4 Aitor Paredes  14 Aymeric Laporte  31 Johaneko Louis Jean  
Unai Simón  

Valencia bench

33Aaron Mayol
37Aimar Blazquez
15Aliou Dieng
22Arnau Martínez
27David Otorbi
23Filip Ugrinić
10Harvey Elliott
21Jesús Vázquez
25Kayne van Oevelen
11Luis Rioja
4Mouctar Diakhaby
39Ryunosuke Sato

Athletic Club bench

20Alejandro Rego Mora
13Alex Padilla
6Beñat Prados
33Christian Imga
3Dani Vivian
11Gorka Guruzeta
12Jesús Areso
21Maroan Sannadi
18Mikel Jauregizar
22Nico Serrano
5Yeray Álvarez
17Yuri Berchiche

Match stats

20 metrics for the full match

37%Possession63%

16Shots9

3Shots on target2

12Shots off target7

1Blocked shots0

13Shots inside box7

3Shots outside box2

69Attacks140

38Dangerous attacks72

2Corners6

2Offsides1

14Fouls13

3Yellow cards3

1Saves3

331Passes567

265Accurate passes482

0Free kicks0

0Throw-ins0

0Goal kicks0

0Penalties0

Valencia

Athletic ClubThe source gives no per-half split — only totals for the match

How the match went

text generated from our data

Valencia and Athletic Club met on matchday 9 of the La Liga on 17 October at Estadio de Mestalla. Final score — 0:0.

Valencia sit 19th on 6 points after 12 matches (2 wins, 3 draws, 7 losses), 4 matches without conceding. Athletic Club sit 14th on 9 points after 11 matches (4 wins, 4 draws, 3 losses), unbeaten in 3 matches, 5 matches without conceding.

Of the last 2 meetings Valencia won 2, Athletic Club won 0. Aggregate score — 3:0.

Season form

all competitions of the season

Valencia last five Athletic Club

LWLDD form DWWLD

12 Matches 11

2 — 3 — 7 Wins — draws — defeats 4 — 4 — 3

8 — 20 Scored — conceded 15 — 11

0.75 Points per game 1.45

0.67 Goals scored per game 1.36

4 Clean sheets 5

6 Failed to score 3

winless in 1 Current streak unbeaten in 3

Valencia at home: 7 matches, 0 wins, 2 draws, 5 losses, goals 3—14, 0.29 points per match.

Athletic Club away: 5 matches, 1 win, 2 draws, 2 losses, goals 4—6, 1 points per match.

Head-to-head

2 matches in our database

2 Valencia wins 0 draws 0 Athletic Club wins goals 3:0 Valencia — Athletic Club

10/05/2026	Athletic Club — Valencia	0:1	La Liga
20/09/2025	Valencia — Athletic Club	2:0	La Liga

League table

after the match

#	Team	P	W	D	L	Goals	Pts
6	Sevilla	12	5	3	4	17—19	18
7	Athletic Club	11	4	4	3	15—11	16
8	Deportivo de La Coruña	12	3	6	3	15—14	15
…
18	Levante	11	2	4	5	16—21	10
19	Valencia	11	2	3	6	8—17	9
20	Málaga	12	0	5	7	9—23	5

Full La Liga table

Valencia — Athletic Club, 17 October 2026, 19:00 UTC : score 0:0