📏 Form Guide

Atlético Madrid

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Atlético Madrid will be wanting a better result here after a 1-0 La Liga loss in their previous game against UD Las Palmas.

In that game, Atlético Madrid managed 59% possession and 7 shots on goal with 2 on target. Las Palmas got 8 attempts on goal with 2 on target. Javi Muñoz (93') was the scorer for UD Las Palmas.

It has been a rare occasion in recent times that Atlético Madrid haven’t conceded. In fact, Atlético Madrid have been scored against in 6 of their previous 6 matches, leaking 10 goals on the way. That sort of trend might not be continued here, though.

Going into this contest, Atlético Madrid are unbeaten in the league by Rayo Vallecano in their last 15 games. It's quite some record.

Rayo Vallecano

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In the game prior to this, Rayo Vallecano drew 1-1 in the La Liga tie with Valencia.

In that game, Rayo Vallecano managed 57% possession and 11 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. On the other side, Valencia got 10 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. César Tárrega (45' Own goal) and Umar Sadiq (75') scored for Valencia.

The numbers tell their own story, and Rayo Vallecano have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, with opponents netting 12 goals in all. In defence, Rayo Vallecano just haven’t been too solid at all.

Coming into this meeting, Rayo Vallecano have not registered a win against Atlético Madrid when they've played them away from home in the last 10 league games. A very poor set of away results, indeed.

👥 Head to head

An examination of their past head to head meetings going back to 19/03/2022 reveals that these encounters have been miserable for Rayo Vallecano. They’ve not managed to get any victories whatsoever while Atlético Madrid have been dominant against them, finishing as winners in 67 per cent of those games played.

An aggregate of 18 goals were yielded between them in these games, with 14 for Atleti and 4 being from Franjirrojos. That’s an average goals per game figure of 3.

The previous league fixture featuring the two was La Liga match day 6 on 22/09/2024 when the final score was Rayo Vallecano 1-1 Atlético Madrid.

In that match, Rayo Vallecano managed 55% possession and 16 shots on goal with 4 on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Isi Palazón (35').

At the other end, Atlético Madrid had 10 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. Conor Gallagher (49') scored.

The match was refereed by Mario Melero López.

🗞️ Team News: Atlético Madrid

In all likelihood, Atleti will possibly use the 4-4-2 system, handing starts to Jan Oblak, Marcos Llorente, Robin Le Normand, Clement Lenglet, Javi Galan, Giuliano Simeone, Rodrigo De Paul, Pablo Barrios, Conor Gallagher, Julian Alvarez and Alexander Soerloth.

📋 Team News: Rayo Vallecano

In an otherwise available group of players, there’s only the one fitness worry for the Rayo Vallecano gaffer Iñigo Pérez to be concerned with. Abdul Mumin (Knee injury) won’t be in action.

We believe Franjirrojos seem likely to elect for a 4-2-3-1 formation using Augusto Batalla, Andrei Ratiu, Florian Lejeune, Pathe Ciss, Alfonso Espino, Oscar Valentin, Gerard Gumbau, Jorge de Frutos, Pedro Diaz, Alvaro Garcia and Randy Nteka.

🧠 Prediction

In our opinion, Atlético Madrid have it within them to fashion enough chances to find the net more than once while possibly not conceding when they play Rayo Vallecano, who may well struggle to get a goal of their own.

We’re therefore anticipating a decent 2-0 winning score for Atlético Madrid after 90 minutes.

Lucas Pereira, 19:08 24/04/2025