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:

January 3, 2025
Valencia 21:00 Real Madrid
January 10, 2025
Rayo Vallecano 21:00 Celta Vigo
January 11, 2025
Alaves 14:00 Girona
Real Valladolid 16:15 Real Betis
Espanyol 18:30 Leganes
Sevilla 21:00 Valencia
January 12, 2025
Las Palmas 14:00 Getafe
Atlético de Madrid 16:15 Osasuna
January 13, 2025
Real Sociedad 21:00 Villarreal
January 17, 2025
Espanyol 21:00 Real Valladolid
January 18, 2025
Osasuna 14:00 Rayo Vallecano
Leganes 16:15 Atlético de Madrid
Celta Vigo 18:30 Athletic Bilbao
Getafe 21:00 Barcelona
January 19, 2025
Real Betis 14:00 Alaves
Real Madrid 16:15 Las Palmas
Valencia 18:30 Real Sociedad
Girona 21:00 Sevilla
January 20, 2025
Villarreal 21:00 Mallorca

Spanish Primera Table

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 Atlético de Madrid 18 12 5 1 33 12 +21 41
2 Real Madrid 18 12 4 2 41 18 +23 40
3 Barcelona 19 12 2 5 51 22 +29 38
4 Athletic Bilbao 19 10 6 3 29 17 +12 36
5 Villarreal 18 8 6 4 34 30 +4 30
6 Mallorca 19 9 3 7 19 21 -2 30
7 Real Sociedad 18 7 4 7 16 13 +3 25
8 Girona 18 7 4 7 26 25 +1 25
9 Real Betis 18 6 7 5 21 22 -1 25
10 Osasuna 18 6 7 5 23 27 -4 25
11 Celta Vigo 18 7 3 8 27 28 -1 24
12 Rayo Vallecano 18 5 7 6 20 21 -1 22
13 Las Palmas 18 6 4 8 23 27 -4 22
14 Sevilla 18 6 4 8 20 27 -7 22
15 Leganes 18 4 6 8 17 28 -11 18
16 Alaves 18 4 5 9 21 30 -9 17
17 Getafe 18 3 7 8 11 15 -4 16
18 Espanyol 18 4 3 11 16 30 -14 15
19 Valencia 17 2 6 9 16 26 -10 12
20 Real Valladolid 18 3 3 12 12 37 -25 12

Spanish Primera Results

December 22, 2024
Real Betis 1 - 1 Rayo Vallecano
Las Palmas 1 - 0 Espanyol
Leganes 2 - 5 Villarreal
Real Madrid 4 - 2 Sevilla
Valencia 2 - 2 Alaves
December 21, 2024
Barcelona 1 - 2 Atlético de Madrid
Osasuna 1 - 2 Athletic Bilbao
Celta Vigo 2 - 0 Real Sociedad
Getafe 0 - 1 Mallorca
December 20, 2024
Girona 3 - 0 Real Valladolid
December 18, 2024
Espanyol 1 - 1 Valencia
Villarreal 1 - 1 Rayo Vallecano
December 15, 2024
Barcelona 0 - 1 Leganes
Real Sociedad 0 - 0 Las Palmas
Villarreal 1 - 2 Real Betis
Alaves 1 - 1 Athletic Bilbao
Atlético de Madrid 1 - 0 Getafe

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