Barcelona v Atletico Madrid Predictions & Betting Odds 30th January 2016

Top of the table La Liga clash

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How do you keep Lionel Messi, Neymar and Luis Suarez quiet? Great question and maybe Atletico Madrid’s stellar defence has the answer. Saturday brings around a top two clash in La Liga as Barca host Atletico in a scrap for surface, both sides sitting on 48 points. But if there’s one defence in Europe that can stop Barcelona’s power attack it is Atletico’s which has conceded just eight league goals all season. San Diego Simeone’s men avoid defeat at the Nou Camp or will the home side find a way to break them?

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Barcelona v Atletico Madrid Betting Tips

This one should grab attention amidst all the FA Cup matches going off in England. This is a scrap at the top of La Liga, with both level on points, but Barcelona holding a game in hand over Atletico. So that means the visitors are really going to need to put a win on the board to get a big boost in the title race. Barcelona also have a far superior goal difference too. Barcelona have gone unbeaten in their last eleven league games against Atletico though and have won nine of those eleven. That’s impressive and they are also unbeaten in their last nine at the Nou Camp against Atletico too (W7 D2). What’s more impressive is in that stretch of nine home games, Barcelona have averaged 3.44 goals per game against Atletico Madrid.

They have also averaged 3.44 goals per game in their last 18 home matches in La Liga, a run of unbeaten form at the Nou Camp in the Spanish top flight. It’s easy to win games when you have Lionel Messi, Neymar and Luis Suarez in your starting lineup and between them they have scored Barcelona’s last six league goals. Messi is 4/5 outright favourite in the anytime goalscorer market with Luis Suarez and Neymar at 5/4. Lionel Messi has scored in each of his last three league games (five goals), his best run of the season. This is the second league meeting of the season between the two clubs, with Barca taking a 2-1 win at the Vicente Calderon back in September, with Messi scoring the winner.

So Barcelona have an incredible attack, but Atletico Madrid are basing all their success off of a great defence. They have been incredible at the back shipping only the eight league goals from their 21 matches played in La Liga. They have gone unbeaten in their last five league games (W4 D1) and haven’t conceded in any of those. So they are going along nicely and Diego Simeone’s men have lost just the one of their last fifteen league matches (W11 D3 L1). So they are equally as impressive in their own right. Antoine Griezmann has netted 12 league goals this term for them and is 5/2 to net on Saturday.

Atletico have been level at 0-0 at the break in each of their last six league matches and you can back this one to be the same in a 0-0 half time score for a price of 2/1 with Unibet for this one. They are pretty decent road side having won their last three away from home in the league and they haven’t conceded in their last three away games either. You have to go back to 2013 for the last time that they earned four clean sheets in a row away from home though. This is the ultimate test for their defence, one of the best in Europe. They need the three points though so can’t just try and constrain for the ninety minutes.

Barcelona v Atletico Madrid Betting Odds

Barcelona 1/2, Draw 3/1, Atletico Madrid 6/1

Barcelona v Atletico Madrid Predictions

Barcelona have the head to head form,they have the goals and form to find a way through Atletico’s tough defence. Barcelona are looking for their sixth straight win over Atletico in all competitions and with the goalscoring power that they possess, you have to back their offense over the visitors’ defence. Home win and look over 2.5 goals.

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