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Villarreal vs Atletico Madrid

Competition – Spanish Primera

Stadium –  Estadio de la Cerámica

Date: 18th March 2018

Kick-off time – 17:30 GMT

Villarreal have been one of Atletico’s bogey teams over the past few seasons, but this season has seen a huge gap in terms of quality and Atleti would fancy taking all three points from this game.

Villarreal are not on their best form at the moment with only 2 wins from their last 9 games, however, their 2-0 win at Las Palmas last weekend may have boosted their morale ahead of this game.

They will now hope to finish in a European place.

Villarreal have regressed defensively this season with only 3 clean sheets from their last 15 games.

They are however, unbeaten in their last 5 games against Atleti.

The visitors have to get a win here as they try to close the 8 points gap between them and Barcelona with 10 games left to play.

They come into this in a good run of form that has seen them win 11 of their last 12 games, the only loss being to Barcelona.

Atletico responded well to that loss by winning three on the spin, scoring at least three goals in each of those games.

Both teams have netted in 4 of their last 6 games on the road.

Results of each team’s last 5 matches across all leagues and competitions

Villarreal

LAST FIVE GAMES DATE COMPETITION
W Las Palmas 0-2 Villarreal 11 Mar, 2018 Spanish Primera División
L Villarreal 0-2 Girona 3 Mar, 2018 Spanish Primera División
L Eibar 1-0 Villarreal 28 Feb, 2018 Spanish Primera División
W Villarreal 1-0 Getafe 25 Feb, 2018 Spanish Primera División
L Villarreal 0-1 Lyon 22 Feb, 2018 UEFA Europa League

Atletico Madrid

LAST FIVE GAMES DATE COMPETITION
W Atletico Madrid 3-0 Celta Vigo 11 Mar, 2018 Spanish Primera División
W Atletico Madrid 3-0 Lokomotiv Moscow 8 Mar, 2018 UEFA Europa League
L Barcelona 1-0 Atletico Madrid 4 Mar, 2018 Spanish Primera División
W Atletico Madrid 4-0 Leganes 28 Feb, 2018 Spanish Primera División
W Sevilla FC 2-5 Atletico Madrid 25 Feb, 2018 Spanish Primera División

H2H

LAST FIVE GAMES DATE COMPETITION
Atletico Madrid 1-1 Villarreal 28 Oct, 2017 Spanish Primera División
Atletico Madrid 0-1 Villarreal 25 Apr, 2017 Spanish Primera División
Villarreal 3-0 Atletico Madrid 12 Dec, 2016 Spanish Primera División
Atletico Madrid 0-0 Villarreal 21 Feb, 2016 Spanish Primera División
Villarreal 1-0 Atletico Madrid 26 Sep, 2015 Spanish Primera División

Other fixtures taking place this week in the Spanish Primera:

May 4, 2024
Real Sociedad 13:00 Las Palmas
Real Madrid 15:15 Cadiz
Girona 17:30 Barcelona
Mallorca 20:00 Atlético de Madrid
May 5, 2024
Osasuna 13:00 Real Betis
Celta Vigo 15:15 Villarreal
Valencia 17:30 Alaves
Rayo Vallecano 20:00 Almeria
Sevilla 20:00 Granada
May 10, 2024
Alaves 20:00 Girona
May 11, 2024
Mallorca 13:00 Las Palmas
Villarreal 15:15 Sevilla
Granada 17:30 Real Madrid
Athletic Bilbao 20:00 Osasuna
May 12, 2024
Cadiz 13:00 Getafe
Atlético de Madrid 15:15 Celta Vigo
Valencia 17:30 Rayo Vallecano
Real Betis 20:00 Almeria
May 13, 2024
Barcelona 20:00 Real Sociedad

Spanish Primera Table

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 Real Madrid 33 26 6 1 71 22 +49 84
2 Barcelona 33 22 7 4 68 39 +29 73
3 Girona 33 22 5 6 69 40 +29 71
4 Atlético de Madrid 33 20 4 9 62 39 +23 64
5 Athletic Bilbao 34 17 10 7 55 33 +22 61
6 Real Sociedad 33 13 12 8 46 35 +11 51
7 Real Betis 33 12 13 8 41 39 +2 49
8 Valencia 33 13 8 12 37 38 -1 47
9 Villarreal 33 12 9 12 54 55 -1 45
10 Getafe 34 10 13 11 41 47 -6 43
11 Osasuna 33 11 6 16 37 49 -12 39
12 Alaves 33 10 8 15 31 38 -7 38
13 Sevilla 33 9 11 13 42 46 -4 38
14 Las Palmas 33 10 7 16 30 41 -11 37
15 Rayo Vallecano 33 7 13 13 27 42 -15 34
16 Mallorca 33 6 14 13 27 39 -12 32
17 Celta Vigo 33 7 10 16 37 50 -13 31
18 Cadiz 33 4 14 15 23 46 -23 26
19 Granada 33 4 9 20 36 61 -25 21
20 Almeria 33 1 11 21 32 67 -35 14

Spanish Primera Results

May 3, 2024
Getafe 0 - 2 Athletic Bilbao
April 29, 2024
Barcelona 4 - 2 Valencia
April 28, 2024
Real Betis 1 - 1 Sevilla
Villarreal 3 - 0 Rayo Vallecano
Granada 3 - 0 Osasuna
Cadiz 1 - 1 Mallorca
April 27, 2024
Atlético de Madrid 3 - 1 Athletic Bilbao
Alaves 3 - 0 Celta Vigo
Almeria 1 - 3 Getafe
Las Palmas 0 - 2 Girona
April 26, 2024
Real Sociedad 0 - 1 Real Madrid
April 22, 2024
Sevilla 2 - 1 Mallorca
April 21, 2024
Real Madrid 3 - 2 Barcelona
Alaves 2 - 0 Atlético de Madrid
Almeria 1 - 2 Villarreal
Getafe 1 - 1 Real Sociedad
April 20, 2024
Girona 4 - 1 Cadiz
Valencia 1 - 2 Real Betis
Rayo Vallecano 2 - 1 Osasuna
Celta Vigo 4 - 1 Las Palmas

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