Betting tips for Panathinaikos vs Ath Bilbao - 17.08.2017

The Greens host Athletic Club Bilbao in the first leg of the last qualifying round for the 2017-18 Europa League group stage. Panathinaikos will have a budget of 25.4 million euros to try to fight the titles to archenemy, Olympiacos. Marinos Ouzounidis continues to lead the green project after being replaced mid-season, causing the team at least to get into European competition.

Given the situation of decline of the section of football of the great Athenian club in the last 7 years (not winning the league since 2010, investment in players is again minimal, with a disbursement of 150000 euros to sign the Israeli playmaker Omri Altman, From the Hapoel Tel Aviv, coming from central Corinthians forward Luciano, loaned to the Greek team as well as the left-hander of Ecuadorian Bryan Cabezas, owned by the Italian Atalanta of Bergamo, and former AEK Athens center Dimitrios Kolovetsios. Sweden's Marcus Berg, the team's best player in attack, goes to Al-Ain in the UAE for 3.3 million euros, while players like Boumal, Marinakis, Ajagun, Wakaso (signed by Alavés), Giannakopoulos, Vlachodimos, Mesto, Kotsolis, Chochoumis, Xiros and Servilakis leave free.

The Athenian side eliminated Gabala in the previous round, beating in both matches: 1-0 in Athens, 1-2 in Azerbaijan.

Once Probable: Xenopoulos - Evangelou, Cabezas, Andreou, Kolovetsios, Wemmer, Altman, Mingos, Angelopoulos, Triantafyllopoulos, Pispas.

Europa League Athletic Club de Bilbao finished last season occupying the 7th position. The victory of FC Barcelona in the final of the Copa del Rey ended up getting into the Europa League this campaign, after having had an outstanding participation last year. The Basque team, one of the three Spanish clubs to have never lost the category (the other two are Real Madrid and FC Barcelona) has a budget of 171.7 million euros for this campaign. Ernesto Valverde's march to FC Barcelona prompted the promotion of Ziganda from the subsidiary team, with the change in the bench being the main novelty, along with the return of several of the players who played last season (Herrerín, Kike Sola, Iriondo, Ager Aketxe, Vesga ...). Veteran goalkeeper Gorka Iraizoz is the only casualty of the team, leaving for the newly promoted Girona.

In the previous round, the Vizcaya eliminated Dinamo Bucharest by a global of 4-1, winning in San Mamés by 3-0 after having managed to tie 1 in the first leg.

Panathinaikos vs Ath Bilbao Prediction: X/2 5.00

Panathinaikos vs Ath Bilbao betting tip: Over 2.5 Goals @ 1.80

Panathinaikos vs Ath Bilbao   final score recommendations: 1-2 10.00