📊 Form Guide

Villarreal

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Villarreal will be hoping for a better result following the 2-0 La Liga defeat last time out to Rayo Vallecano.

In that game, Villarreal had 47% possession and 11 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target. At the other end, Rayo Vallecano got 15 shots at goal with 7 on target. Camello (28') and Alemão (47') scored for Rayo Vallecano.

It has been all too rare in recent games where Villarreal haven’t conceded. The facts show that Villarreal have been scored against in 6 of their previous 6 matches, giving up 9 goals on the way. We shall soon see if that trend can be sustained into this next match.

Ahead of this meeting, Villarreal are winless against Atlético Madrid in their previous 6 matches in the league.

Atlético Madrid

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Atlético Madrid come into this clash following on from a 1-0 La Liga win as they beat Girona FC in their last outing.

In that match, Atlético Madrid managed 47% possession and 17 shots at goal with 4 on target. The scorer for Atlético Madrid was Ademola Lookman (21'). For their opponents, Girona got 25 shots on goal with 11 on target.

A sequence of resolute displays from the Atlético Madrid defensive unit has seen their ‘goals against’ tally amounting to 4 from their last 6 fixtures overall. During the same period of time, their own forwards have managed to score 6.

Their prior results show that Atlético Madrid:

• remain unbeaten by Villarreal when having played them away from home in the previous 7 matches in the league. A very good run of results for them.
• are undefeated in their previous 2 away league matches.

👥 Head to head

Inspecting their past head-to-head meetings stretching back to 04/06/2023 tells us that Villarreal have won 0 of them & Atlético Madrid 3, with the tally of drawn matches standing at 3.

An aggregate of 19 goals were yielded between them throughout the course of those matches, with 7 of them from El Submarino Amarillo and 12 for Atleti. The average number of goals per game works out to 3.17.

The last league contest featuring the two was La Liga match day 4 on 13/09/2025 when it ended Atlético Madrid 2-0 Villarreal.

On that occasion, Atlético Madrid managed 61% possession and 8 shots on goal with 3 on target. Goals were scored by Barrios (9') and Nicólas González (52').

On the other side, Villarreal had 8 attempts at goal with 1 of them on target.

The match was refereed by José Luis Munuera Montero.

📰 Team News: Villarreal

In all likelihood, El Submarino Amarillo look set to kick off with a 4-4-2 formation for this one, beginning the first half with Arnau Tenas, Santiago Mourino, Pau Navarro, Rafa Marin, Alfonso Pedraza, Nicolas Pepe, Pape Gueye, Daniel Parejo, Alberto Moleiro, Ayoze Perez and Georges Mikautadze.

📋 Team News: Atlético Madrid

We’re of the thinking that Atleti will likely utilise a 4-4-2 lineup, starting Juan Musso, Marcos Llorente, Marc Pubill, Clement Lenglet, David Hancko, Giuliano Simeone, Obed Vargas, Koke, Alejandro Baena, Ademola Lookman and Antoine Griezmann.

⚡ Prediction

Our assessment is that Atlético Madrid and Villarreal could well end up finding themselves trading goals here.

Let’s see what happens, but it could well be that we get quite a few goals with scores finishing level. Therefore, we predict a very competitive game with a 2-2 score when the full-time whistle blows.

Victor Martins, 18:03 24/05/2026