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Atlético Madrid

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Atlético Madrid are hoping to win again following a 1-0 Champions League triumph vs Real Madrid.

In that match, Atlético Madrid had 38% possession and 17 shots on goal with 8 of them on target. The scorer for Atlético Madrid was Conor Gallagher (1'). For their opponents, Real Madrid got 10 attempts on goal with 3 on target. Real Madrid ran out winners after a 2-4 penalty shootout.

Atlético Madrid haven’t been able to stop scoring goals, hitting the target in one hundred percent of their last 6 games.

They’ve totted up the amount of 11 during that time while also conceding a total of 8. Historical results aside, it remains to be seen whether such a trend shall persist in this next game.

Going into this one, Atlético Madrid haven't been defeated in their previous 14 home league matches. Incredible, really.

Barcelona

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Barcelona will come into the match following on from a 3-1 Champions League win with the defeat of Benfica in their most recent game.

In that match, Barcelona managed 65% possession and 20 shots at goal with 6 of them on target. For Barcelona, the goals were scored by Raphinha (11', 42') and Lamine Yamal (27'). On the other side, Benfica got 8 shots at goal with 2 of them on target. Nicolás Otamendi (13') was the scorer for Benfica.

Demonstrating their partiality to productive encounters, goals have been seen as many as 20 times in the previous 6 games in which Barcelona have taken to the pitch, making it a mean average of 3.33 goals for each fixture. Opposing teams have hit 5 from this total.

Their past results show that Barcelona:

• haven't been beaten by Atlético Madrid in games played away from home for the previous 2 league games.
• are undefeated in their previous 6 away league matches.

↔️ Head to head

Looking over their past head to head clashes going back to 08/01/2023 shows that Atlético Madrid have won 1 of these & Barcelona 4, with the number of draws being 1.

17 goals were scored between the two sides throughout the course of those matches, with 6 from Atleti and 11 for Barça. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.83.

ℹ️ Team News: Atlético Madrid

We are thinking that Atleti could line up in a 4-4-2 formation featuring Jan Oblak, Marcos Llorente, Jose Gimenez, Clement Lenglet, Javi Galan, Giuliano Simeone, Rodrigo De Paul, Pablo Barrios, Samuel Dias Lino, Antoine Griezmann and Julian Alvarez.

ℹ️ Team News: Barcelona

Thanks to a largely healthy group of players, there’s only the sole fitness worry for the Barcelona boss Hansi Flick to be concerned with. Fernando Pacheco (Ankle injury) won’t be playing here.

From our viewpoint, Barça might elect for a 4-2-3-1 system using Wojciech Szczesny, Jules Kounde, Pau Cubarsi, Inigo Martinez, Alejandro Balde, Frenkie de Jong, Pedri, Lamine Yamal, Dani Olmo, Raphinha and Robert Lewandowski.

💭 Prediction

We’re thinking that Atlético Madrid have it within them to get a goal against this Barcelona lineup, however a single goal might not quite be enough to give them the result that they want.

Therefore, we think that it’s going to be a very close game with a 1-2 winning score for Barcelona after the 90. Could easily go either way, this.

Victor Martins, 19:00 16/03/2025