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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:

March 29, 2024
Cadiz 21:00 Granada
March 30, 2024
Getafe 14:00 Sevilla
Almeria 16:15 Osasuna
Valencia 18:30 Mallorca
Barcelona 21:00 Las Palmas
March 31, 2024
Celta Vigo 12:00 Rayo Vallecano
Girona 14:15 Real Betis
Alaves 16:30 Real Sociedad
Real Madrid 19:00 Athletic Bilbao
April 1, 2024
Villarreal 19:00 Atlético de Madrid
April 4, 2024
Granada 18:00 Valencia
April 12, 2024
Real Betis 19:00 Celta Vigo
April 13, 2024
Atlético de Madrid 12:00 Girona
Rayo Vallecano 14:15 Getafe
Mallorca 16:30 Real Madrid
Cadiz 19:00 Barcelona
April 14, 2024
Las Palmas 12:00 Sevilla
Granada 14:15 Alaves
Athletic Bilbao 16:30 Villarreal
Real Sociedad 19:00 Almeria

Spanish Primera Table

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 Real Madrid 29 22 6 1 64 20 +44 72
2 Barcelona 29 19 7 3 60 34 +26 64
3 Girona 29 19 5 5 59 34 +25 62
4 Athletic Bilbao 29 16 8 5 50 26 +24 56
5 Atlético de Madrid 29 17 4 8 54 34 +20 55
6 Real Sociedad 29 12 10 7 42 31 +11 46
7 Real Betis 29 10 12 7 34 33 +1 42
8 Valencia 28 11 7 10 32 32 +0 40
9 Villarreal 29 10 8 11 47 51 -4 38
10 Getafe 29 9 11 9 37 42 -5 38
11 Las Palmas 29 10 7 12 29 32 -3 37
12 Osasuna 29 10 6 13 33 43 -10 36
13 Alaves 29 8 8 13 26 35 -9 32
14 Mallorca 29 6 12 11 25 35 -10 30
15 Rayo Vallecano 29 6 11 12 25 38 -13 29
16 Sevilla 29 6 10 13 36 44 -8 28
17 Celta Vigo 29 6 9 14 32 44 -12 27
18 Cadiz 29 3 13 13 20 40 -20 22
19 Granada 28 2 8 18 30 58 -28 14
20 Almeria 29 1 10 18 28 57 -29 13

Spanish Primera Results

March 17, 2024
Atlético de Madrid 0 - 3 Barcelona
Rayo Vallecano 2 - 0 Real Betis
Villarreal 1 - 0 Valencia
Las Palmas 0 - 1 Almeria
Sevilla 1 - 2 Celta Vigo
March 16, 2024
Athletic Bilbao 2 - 0 Alaves
Getafe 1 - 0 Girona
Osasuna 2 - 4 Real Madrid
Mallorca 1 - 0 Granada
March 15, 2024
Real Sociedad 2 - 0 Cadiz
March 11, 2024
Almeria 2 - 2 Sevilla
March 10, 2024
Real Betis 2 - 3 Villarreal
Real Madrid 4 - 0 Celta Vigo
Las Palmas 0 - 2 Athletic Bilbao
Alaves 1 - 0 Rayo Vallecano
March 9, 2024
Girona 2 - 0 Osasuna
Granada 2 - 3 Real Sociedad
Cadiz 2 - 0 Atlético de Madrid
Valencia 1 - 0 Getafe
March 8, 2024
Barcelona 1 - 0 Mallorca

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