📏 Form Guide

Espanyol

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Espanyol will be looking for an improved result here following a 2-1 La Liga losing effort in their last game against Mallorca.

In that game, Espanyol had 38% possession and 2 shots at goal with 0 on target. On the other side, Mallorca had 20 shots on goal with 7 of them on target. Vedat Muriqi (53' Own goal, 97') and Takuma Asano (65') scored for Mallorca.

Espanyol have been on a persistent run of goalscoring form, hitting the target every time they’ve gone out to play in their last 6 games.

They have managed to rack up 6 during that period while seeing the number of goals scored against them stand at 6. Still, time will tell if such a trend shall be maintained here in this game.

Their past results show that Espanyol:

• haven't been beaten in the league by Atlético Madrid in their previous 3 matches.
• have not emerged victorious against Atlético Madrid in their last 7 matches in the league.
• are without a win at home for the past 2 league matches.

Atlético Madrid

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After suffering a loss in their previous game against Barcelona in La Liga action, Atlético Madrid and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one.

In that match, Atlético Madrid managed 34% possession and 7 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target. For Atlético Madrid, the scorers were Julián Alvarez (45') and Alexander Sørloth (70'). Barcelona had 13 shots at goal with 6 of them on target. Robert Lewandowski (72'), Ferrán Torres (78', 98') and Lamine Yamal (92') scored for Barcelona.

Showing their bias toward action-packed matches, we’ve seen goals 22 times in the previous 6 matches in which Atlético Madrid have sent out their troops, making it an average of 3.67 goals for each meeting. Opposition teams have managed 12 of this grand total.

Coming into this contest, Atlético Madrid are undefeated by Espanyol when they've played them away from home in the last 3 league games.

👥 Head to head

Looking over their past head-to-head meetings going back to 01/03/2020 shows us that Espanyol have won 0 of these and Atlético Madrid 2, with the tally of drawn matches standing at 4.

A combined total of 16 goals were scored between them throughout the course of those matches, with 7 from Periquitos and 9 created by Atleti. That’s an average goals per game of 2.67.

ℹ️ Team News: Espanyol

There’s just a single fitness concern for the Espanyol boss Manolo González to contend with from an otherwise complete group. Fernando Pacheco (Ankle injury) won’t play.

It’s our opinion that Periquitos could opt for a 4-3-3 formation for this one with Joan Garcia, Omar El Hilali, Marash Kumbulla, Leandro Cabrera, Carlos Romero, Urko Gonzalez, Alex Kral, Pol Lozano, Jofre Carreras, Roberto Fernandez and Javier Puado.

🗞️ Team News: Atlético Madrid

There’s a good chance that Atleti appear most likely to begin the game with a 4-4-2 formation, starting the game with Jan Oblak, Cesar Azpilicueta, Robin Le Normand, Clement Lenglet, Javi Galan, Marcos Llorente, Pablo Barrios, Conor Gallagher, Samuel Dias Lino, Antoine Griezmann and Alexander Soerloth.

🔮 Prediction

We feel that in this game, Espanyol are likely to put a goal past this Atlético Madrid side, but a single goal might not be as many as the goals that they could concede.

We’re therefore tipping both teams to score in a 1-2 winning margin for Atlético Madrid by the conclusion of the game.

Lucas Pereira, 15:01 29/03/2025