Athletic Club vs Getafe Prediction & Preview - LaLiga
Athletic Club have kept four clean sheets in their last six matches and scored six goals in them. Getafe have conceded 11 in theirs. That collision is the whole interest in Sunday's LaLiga game at San Mames: whether a mean but blunt Athletic side can find enough in front of goal to punish a defence that has just been pulled apart, or whether two struggling attacks cancel each other out in Bilbao.
Here are the basics for anyone who came for one detail:
- Fixture: Athletic Club v Getafe
- Competition: LaLiga
- Date: Sunday, 25 October 2026
- Kick-off: 13:00 GMT
- Venue: San Mames, Bilbao
- Match page: Athletic Club v Getafe predictions
Athletic Club keep clean sheets and little else
Edin Terzic's side have taken nine points from their last six, winning two, drawing three and losing one. The defensive record is the good half: four clean sheets, and only one game in that run where they conceded twice or more.
The other half is the problem. Athletic have managed two goals or more only once in six, the 3-0 home win over Atletico Madrid on 5 September, and have failed to score in two of them. A 1-1 draw with Elche and a 0-0 against Deportivo Alaves at San Mames were followed by another 0-0, away at Valencia, before the back line finally gave way in a 1-3 defeat at Levante UD four days before this fixture. Won one of three at home. That is a side you have to beat rather than one that beats you.
Getafe are leaking goals and have already won in this fixture
Jose Bordalas brings a team three days removed from a 2-5 home defeat by FC Lugano in the UEFA Conference League, and five points from their last six in all competitions - one win, two draws, three defeats, five scored and 11 conceded. One clean sheet. No away win in three.
Their last league trip was a 0-3 loss at FC Barcelona on 10 October, and the one victory in the run was a narrow 1-0 at home to Malaga CF. Set against that, the only previous meeting that matters here went Getafe's way: 2-0 at home on 5 April 2026, 203 days before this match, and Athletic did not score.
Team news
Athletic Club are without the suspended Aymeric Laporte after his red card at Levante, while Gorka Guruzeta, Oihan Sancet and Unai Egiluz are injured and Alvaro Djalo needs assessing following illness, with Nico Williams and Inaki Williams expected to return to the starting XI after coming off the bench in midweek, according to Sports Mole; Guruzeta tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee at Valencia and faces six to nine months out, with Terzic saying after that game that "the injury doesn't look good" (Xinhua). Getafe lose Djene Dakonam to suspension after his dismissal against Rayo Vallecano, and Sports Mole expects Martin Satriano, Enes Unal, Ramon Terrats and Nemanja Gudelj to come back in after Conference League rotation, with Dani Carvajal at right-back.
Athletic Club vs Getafe prediction
Athletic Club to beat Getafe 1-0 in LaLiga at San Mames on Sunday, 25 October 2026. Athletic's four clean sheets in six say they will not be opened up often by a side that has scored five goals in its last six games, and Getafe have not won away in three. The reason the scoreline is tight rather than comfortable is Athletic's own return of two goals or more in only one of six, and the fact that Getafe already kept them out for 90 minutes in April.
Our prediction: Athletic Club 1-0 Getafe
Make your prediction
You can call the full-time score on Athletic Club v Getafe and every other game on the live match list. It is a free football game - no stake of any kind - and correct calls climb the weekly leaderboard, which resets along with the cash prizes. New here? Start with how to play.