Athletic Club have won four of their last eight LaLiga games against Real Sociedad (D1 L3), keeping a clean sheet in four of those matches; this is one more victory than they achieved in their previous 19 encounters in the competition (W3 D7 L9), with the same number of clean sheets (four).

Athletic Club have won their last four Basque derbies in LaLiga against Real Sociedad at home, conceding just one goal in total in these matches. Only once before in the competition's history have the Rojiblancos recorded five consecutive home wins against their Txuri-Urdin rivals (between 2002 and 2005, also conceding just one goal during that period).