Atletico Madrid take on the visitors Athletic Bilbao in the round 22 match of Spanish LaLiga. The match will be played on Sunday, February 19th at Metropolitano Stadium (Madrid).
Atletico are now actually focused on a single task, and not the most ambitious. In the fall, as quickly as possible, the Spaniards finished the fight in the Champions League. And this time they finished already in the 4th, last position, losing to Bayer, Porto, and Brugge. So already in the winter, the "mattress" limited themselves to performances in the domestic arena. And then followed by a departure from the Copa del Rey, where it all ended in an unsuccessful derby with Real Madrid. Now there is only Primera, where there is also no chance of 1st place - the maximum will be to finish the draw in the usual 3rd place, and most importantly, not to fall out of the top- four at all. And, by the way, not everything worked out, and there was a risk of finally failing the temporade. But in the last 4 fights in LaLiga brought 10 points. Atletico drew only with "Getafe", 11, having won against "Valladolid", "Osasuna" and, last weekend, "Celta".
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Athletic with previous coach, Marcelino Garcia Toral, took the long-awaited trophy, the Supercup, and normalized the Basques' game. But still with him the team played a maximum at the level of the middle peasants. It's no surprise that the San Mames were seduced by the opportunity to bring back Ernesto Valverde in the summer. He has started strong this season. True, it was not possible to maintain such a pace for a long time. But now in Spain 2 have broken away from the rest, Real Madrid with Barcelona, and all the other more or less combat-ready teams retain chances for 3-4 place and, therefore, the Champions League. Among them, Real Sociedad stands out, but Athletic is not bad either. Especially recently, when, in parallel, continuing the struggle in the Cope del Rey, the Ant's wards won against both Cadiz and Valencia.
Athletic played in draws with its former metropolitan "branch" three times. But in October, the "mattress" won in Bilbao due to a single goal. Bookmakers believe that the “mattress” have a much better chance of winning. But the duel between Simeone and Valverde is not spectacular by default. We bet on the next for them "total under 2.5 goals".
Prediction for the match: Under 2.5 scored goals.
