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 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:

November 2, 2024
Valencia 21:00 Real Madrid
November 22, 2024
Getafe 21:00 Real Valladolid
November 23, 2024
Valencia 14:00 Real Betis
Atlético de Madrid 16:15 Alaves
Las Palmas 18:30 Mallorca
Girona 18:30 Espanyol
Celta Vigo 21:00 Barcelona
November 24, 2024
Osasuna 14:00 Villarreal
Sevilla 16:15 Rayo Vallecano
Leganes 18:30 Real Madrid
Athletic Bilbao 21:00 Real Sociedad
November 29, 2024
Mallorca 21:00 Valencia
November 30, 2024
Barcelona 14:00 Las Palmas
Alaves 16:15 Leganes
Espanyol 18:30 Celta Vigo
Real Valladolid 21:00 Atlético de Madrid
December 1, 2024
Villarreal 14:00 Girona
Real Madrid 16:15 Getafe
Rayo Vallecano 18:30 Athletic Bilbao
Real Sociedad 21:00 Real Betis

Spanish Primera Table

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 Barcelona 13 11 0 2 40 12 +28 33
2 Real Madrid 12 8 3 1 25 11 +14 27
3 Atlético de Madrid 13 7 5 1 19 7 +12 26
4 Villarreal 12 7 3 2 23 19 +4 24
5 Osasuna 13 6 3 4 17 20 -3 21
6 Athletic Bilbao 13 5 5 3 19 13 +6 20
7 Real Betis 13 5 5 3 14 12 +2 20
8 Real Sociedad 13 5 3 5 11 10 +1 18
9 Mallorca 13 5 3 5 10 10 +0 18
10 Girona 13 5 3 5 16 17 -1 18
11 Celta Vigo 13 5 2 6 20 22 -2 17
12 Rayo Vallecano 12 4 4 4 13 13 +0 16
13 Sevilla 13 4 3 6 12 18 -6 15
14 Leganes 13 3 5 5 13 16 -3 14
15 Alaves 13 4 1 8 14 22 -8 13
16 Las Palmas 13 3 3 7 16 22 -6 12
17 Getafe 13 1 7 5 8 11 -3 10
18 Espanyol 12 3 1 8 11 22 -11 10
19 Real Valladolid 13 2 3 8 10 25 -15 9
20 Valencia 11 1 4 6 8 17 -9 7

Spanish Primera Results

November 10, 2024
Real Sociedad 1 - 0 Barcelona
Real Valladolid 1 - 1 Athletic Bilbao
Getafe 0 - 1 Girona
Mallorca 0 - 1 Atlético de Madrid
Real Betis 2 - 2 Celta Vigo
November 9, 2024
Leganes 1 - 0 Sevilla
Villarreal 3 - 0 Alaves
Real Madrid 4 - 0 Osasuna
November 8, 2024
Rayo Vallecano 1 - 3 Las Palmas
November 4, 2024
Celta Vigo 1 - 0 Getafe
November 3, 2024
Athletic Bilbao 1 - 1 Real Betis
Sevilla 0 - 2 Real Sociedad
Barcelona 3 - 1 Espanyol
Atlético de Madrid 2 - 0 Las Palmas
November 2, 2024
Girona 4 - 3 Leganes
Osasuna 1 - 0 Real Valladolid
November 1, 2024
Alaves 1 - 0 Mallorca
October 28, 2024
Mallorca 0 - 0 Athletic Bilbao

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