2025-01-22 15:30
Julian Weinberger, Austria
Tüpraş Stadyumu - İstanbul
Besiktas have lost five of their last six meetings with Spanish sides in all competitions (W1), most recently losing both legs of a 2011-12 UEFA Europa League last 16 tie against Atlético de Madrid.
Athletic Club won their first two meetings with Besiktas in the 1985-86 UEFA Cup but lost the last time they faced the Turkish side in November 2004 (1-3 in the UEFA Cup).
Besiktas have lost 10 of their last 13 UEFA Europa League games (W3), losing each of their last two. Since drawing three in a row in 2015-16, only two of their last 26 games in the competition have ended as a draw (W10 L14).
Athletic Club have won each of their last five UEFA Europa League matches – in their major European history, they have never won six games in a row.
Iñaki Williams has netted four UEFA Europa League goals for Athletic Club this season and has 11 goals in major European competition for the Basque side – only Aritz Aduriz (27) and Fernando Llorente (14) have ever netted more.