Real Madrid v Atletico Madrid Betting Preview
It’s a huge Madrid derby on the weekend, which shouldn’t go unnoticed. This is another massively important game between the two of them as it is a battle for second spot behind Barcelona in La Liga. Neither are likely to end up catch the Catalans in the league title race, but there is big bragging rights up for grabs here. Atletico, thanks to a brilliant defence this season go into the huge derby match with a one point advantage over their rivals. Will that be intact at the end of the game?
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Real Madrid v Atletico Madrid Betting Tips
Real Madrid dropped a couple of points in the La Liga title race last time out with a draw at Malaga. However, they are in immense form back at home having won their last seven league games there. They have scored at least three goals in each of those seven and have hit four or more in six of those seven games at the Bernabeu. That’s scoring form not to be messed with. Cristiano Ronaldo is running at a price of 5/6 in the anytime goalscorer market with Karim Benzema at 5/4. Ronaldo has failed to score against Atletico in his last four appearances against them, but Benzema was on target in a 1-1 draw earlier in the season.
So with an average of over 5 goals a game at home in their last seven, can Real break one of the best defences in Europe? It is five games in a row now in La Liga without a win for Real Madrid over Atletico but they do actually have a great home record with 17 wins in their last 19 Madrid derby matches. They are the joint-top scorers across all 5 top European league this season with a 71 goal haul. At the Bernabeu this season they have posted a highly impressive W11 D1 L1 record, the only loss suffered coming against Barcelona.
Atletico start one point ahead of Real so everything is up for grabs here. They can boast one of the best defences around and they have conceded only 11 goals in La Liga all season (four of those against Barcelona over two matches). They haven’t been far off the top of the league all season but have gone W2 D2 L1 over their last five (the defeat coming against Barcelona), which isn’t bad, but nothing compared to the massive W9 D0 L1 record they put in their ten games prior to that.
Atletico Madrid have lost only four league matches all season and two of those were against Barcelona. Realistically you are looking under 2.5 goals for a price of 4/5 for this one because not only have the last three in all competitions between these gone under the mark, Atletico simply don’t concede many at all. On top of that, Diego Simeone’s side have gone 16 Madrid derbies without a defeat in La Liga (W13 D3), failing to score in just one of them (0-0 at Vallecas in August 2014). Antoine Griezmann is on a five match scoreless streak in the league, but is a 2/1 anytime goalscorer option.
Real Madrid v Atletico Madrid Betting Odds
Real Madrid 4/5, Draw 13/5, Atletico Madrid 15/4
Real Madrid v Atletico Madrid Predictions
A heavyweight attack taking on a heavyweight defence. Which will win out on the day? It’s a real poser of a question and it may be worth just splitting it with a draw. Atletico haven’t lost in their last five league matches against Real and actually took a win at the Bernabeu in last season’s League contest. Back Simeone’s defence to get a point.
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