Sunday's La Liga and Bundesliga predictions and free football tips

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Barcelona to beat Athletic Bilbao
Viaplay Sports & LaLigaTV, 8pm
1pt 6-5 Coral

Bayer Leverkusen to beat Werder Bremen
Sky Sports Football, 4.30pm
1pt 11-10 general

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Sunday European football predictions

Barcelona had a nine-point advantage at the top of La Liga going into this weekend's matches and the Blaugrana should have few issues away to a subpar Athletic Bilbao side on Sunday.

Athletic Bilbao's San Mames is not as much of a fortress as it has been in seasons gone by - they have won only six of their 12 home league games this term - and Ernesto Valverde's men have failed to win any of their last three league games against Atletico Madrid, Girona and Rayo Vallecano.

With a handful of key players absent, Barcelona have had to adopt a more defensive approach of late, grinding out 1-0 wins over Real Madrid and Valencia in their last two games, but they will welcome back Robert Lewandowski for this contest and look a solid bet to win.

Although he was still the Bundesliga's leading scorer heading into the weekend's matches, 14-goal Niclas Fullkrug has hit a bit of a wall and that has coincided with a poor run of form from Werder Bremen.

Bremen have lost five of their last eight matches, going down 2-1 on the road to Augsburg last time out, and they could be in for a tough time at home to Bayer Leverkusen, who have improved under Xabi Alonso's stewardship.

With Florian Wirtz and Sardar Azmoun fit and firing again, Leverkusen thumped Hertha Berlin 4-1 last time out and look a decent bet to win away to Bremen, who have picked up only 16 points from 12 home league games.

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