Atletico Madrid vs Athletic Bilbao Preview

Atletico Madrid vs Athletic Bilbao

Competition – Spanish Primera

Stadium – Wanda Metropolitano

Date: 10th November 2018

Kick-off time – 17:30 GMT

Atletico Madrid will be looking to cap off a great week with yet another win and head into the International break on a very bright note with a win in this game.

They beat Borussia Dortmund 2-0 in the Champions League in midweek and they now look to get another one against this unimpressive Bilbao side.

Atleti have some patchy form in the league however they are just 4 points away from Barcelona at the moment and the way they curtailed the free scoring Borussia Dortmund in midweek should have filled them with confidence that they can get a home win here.

Things are worse off for the visitors at the moment.

They finished 16th in the league last season and their fans expected things to only get better under a new manager this season, but it has been anything but better.

Bilbao won their first match of the season, but they head into this game winless since that opening day win and their fans will be hoping things improve sooner rather than later.

To make matters worse for the Basque side, they have lost 8 of their last 10 games against Atletico and they haven’t beaten the hosts since their last match at the old San Mames in 2013.

Atletico have 10 wins from their last 12 games against Bilbao.

Bookmakers have price Atletico up as strong odds-on favourites while goal markets suggest this game will see less than 3 goals as under 2.5 goals is trading odds-on.

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

Atletico Madrid

LAST FIVE GAMES DATE COMPETITION
D Leganes 1-1 Atletico Madrid 3 Nov, 2018 Spanish Primera División
W Sant Andreu 0-1 Atletico Madrid 30 Oct, 2018 Spanish Copa del Rey
W Atletico Madrid 2-0 Real Sociedad 27 Oct, 2018 Spanish Primera División
L Borussia Dortmund 4-0 Atletico Madrid 24 Oct, 2018 UEFA Champions League
D Villarreal 1-1 Atletico Madrid 20 Oct, 2018 Spanish Primera División

Athletic Bilbao

LAST FIVE GAMES DATE COMPETITION
D Athletic Bilbao 0-0 Valencia 27 Oct, 2018 Spanish Primera División
D Rayo Vallecano 1-1 Athletic Bilbao 24 Oct, 2018 Spanish Primera División
D Eibar 1-1 Athletic Bilbao 21 Oct, 2018 Spanish Primera División
L Athletic Bilbao 1-3 Real Sociedad 5 Oct, 2018 Spanish Primera División
D Barcelona 1-1 Athletic Bilbao 29 Sep, 2018 Spanish Primera División

H2H

LAST FIVE GAMES DATE COMPETITION
Atletico Madrid 2-0 Athletic Bilbao 18 Feb, 2018 Spanish Primera División
Athletic Bilbao 1-2 Atletico Madrid 20 Sep, 2017 Spanish Primera División
Atletico Madrid 3-1 Athletic Bilbao 21 May, 2017 Spanish Primera División
Athletic Bilbao 2-2 Atletico Madrid 22 Jan, 2017 Spanish Primera División
Athletic Bilbao 0-1 Atletico Madrid 20 Apr, 2016 Spanish Primera División

Other fixtures taking place this week in the Spanish Primera:

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
May 14, 2024
Osasuna 18:30 Mallorca
Real Madrid 20:30 Alaves
Girona 21:00 Villarreal
May 15, 2024
Sevilla 18:30 Cadiz
Rayo Vallecano 18:30 Granada
Celta Vigo 21:00 Athletic Bilbao
Getafe 21:00 Atlético de Madrid
May 16, 2024
Las Palmas 18:30 Real Betis
Almeria 20:30 Barcelona
Real Sociedad 21:00 Valencia

Spanish Primera Table

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 Real Madrid 34 27 6 1 74 22 +52 87
2 Girona 34 23 5 6 73 42 +31 74
3 Barcelona 34 22 7 5 70 43 +27 73
4 Atlético de Madrid 34 21 4 9 63 39 +24 67
5 Athletic Bilbao 34 17 10 7 55 33 +22 61
6 Real Sociedad 34 14 12 8 48 35 +13 54
7 Real Betis 34 13 13 8 43 39 +4 52
8 Valencia 34 13 8 13 37 39 -2 47
9 Villarreal 34 12 9 13 56 58 -2 45
10 Getafe 34 10 13 11 41 47 -6 43
11 Alaves 34 11 8 15 32 38 -6 41
12 Sevilla 34 10 11 13 45 46 -1 41
13 Osasuna 34 11 6 17 37 51 -14 39
14 Las Palmas 34 10 7 17 30 43 -13 37
15 Celta Vigo 34 8 10 16 40 52 -12 34
16 Rayo Vallecano 34 7 13 14 27 43 -16 34
17 Mallorca 34 6 14 14 27 40 -13 32
18 Cadiz 34 4 14 16 23 49 -26 26
19 Granada 34 4 9 21 36 64 -28 21
20 Almeria 34 2 11 21 33 67 -34 17

Spanish Primera Results

May 5, 2024
Sevilla 3 - 0 Granada
Rayo Vallecano 0 - 1 Almeria
Valencia 0 - 1 Alaves
Celta Vigo 3 - 2 Villarreal
Osasuna 0 - 2 Real Betis
May 4, 2024
Mallorca 0 - 1 Atlético de Madrid
Girona 4 - 2 Barcelona
Real Madrid 3 - 0 Cadiz
Real Sociedad 2 - 0 Las Palmas
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

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