Atletico Madrid take on the visitors Club Brugge at the Wanda Metropolitano in the Round 2 of the UEFA Champions League Group A. The match will be played in Madrid on Wednesday, October 3rd.
Atletico Madrid have been having a horrible start to the new Primera Division season lately. They are far from their peak shape at the moment. In their last three league fixtures though Los Colchoneros drew against Real Madrid with a 0-0 score, beat Getafe with a 2-0 score and Huesca with a 3-0 score. The team of Diego Simeone has been getting better in their defense and has been increasing their productivity scoring two or three goals a match recently. In the Round 1 of the UEFA Champions League Group A they looked unstable. In the end Los Rojiblancos made a comeback against Monaco and won with a 2-1 score. However, considering how bad Monaco had been looking before a lot of experts expected Atletico Madrid to show a more solid playing style in that game. Diego Simeone had two weeks to prepare for his next Champions League fixture. Thereby on Wednesday his team should prove their high class status which was established several years ago.
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Club Brugge are one of the three weakest clubs in the 2018/2019 Champions League group stage if not the weakest one. Even though they often show tremendous performances in the Belgian First Division A the team of Ivan Leko needs to try very hard in order to get any points in the Champions League. It`s worth noting that several years ago the Blauw-Zwart also competed in the group stage of the most prestigious football tournament and got zero points back then playing against Copenhagen, Leicester City and Porto. In the Round 1 fixture of the UEFA Champions League Group A it was obvious that the Belgians had no experience and no class to their credit. Their opponents Borussia Dortmund though were in a terrible shape at that moment and the Club had a chance to draw. However, they conceded a silly goal on the last minutes of that fixture and lost with a 0-1 score in the end. In their last three matches Club Brugge beat Cercle Brugge with a 4-0 score, lost to Deinze with a 0-2 score in the 1/16-finals fixture of the Belgian Cup and beat Gent with a 4-0 score.
Atletico Madrid have been trying hard to reach their peak shape lately so they are likely to get victories in their upcoming matches confidently especially in the one against Club Brugge. The Belgians are levels behind Los Colchoneros at the moment.
Prediction for the match: Atletico Madrid to win with -1.5 handicap.
