Atletico Madrid take on the visitors Sporting at “Wanda Metropolitano” in the first-leg battle of the UEFA Europa League quarter-final. The game will be played in Madrid on Thursday, April 5th.
Despite some difficulties with the roaster Atletico Madrid keep on winning, having got 12 victories in last 14 official encounters conducted. The team has also gained eight triumphs with 18:0 aggregated score at the home ground. The motivation of “Los Colchoneros” is obvious as Barcelona are unreachable in the Spanish LaLiga, Atletico Madrid have nothing to do but fully focus on the chase for the Eurocup trophy. Diego Simeone’s side has vast experience in participating in Play Offs and a clear tactics for such cases. “Atleti” usually succeed with minimum scored goals. The team has won 14 out of recent 16 battles conducted in front of their supporters and only one of that tackles finished with over 3.5 scored goals ( a smashing 4:0 victory Leganes).
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Meanwhile, Sporting’s ability to escape a failure in the forthcoming head-to-head against Atletico Madrid is miserable as rivals’ current football class is simply incomparable. Even in the Portuguese Primeira Liga the club from Lisbon has picked up only eight out of 21 possible points in last seven games played on the road, having got two triumphs, two draws and three defeats in them. “Leoes” have reached the UEFA Europa League quarter-final mainly because of a lucky draw: at first the team had met with FC Astana which qualified to Play Offs for the first time ever (still it didn’t save Sporting from conceding four goals from them); then the Portuguese played against Plzen, being very close from leaving the tournament (the club had lost with 2:0 scoreline on the road and managed to save themselves only in extra time). Before that Sporting performed in the UEFA Champions League group stage, having failed both away clashes against the group leaders Barcelona and Juventus with 1:4 aggregated score. Moreover, “Leoes” collected three defeats and a tough 2:1 victory over Chaves in four spring encounters conducted on the road. These results are not good enough to claim for a successful outcome of the forthcoming fight in Spain.
Atletico Madrid are the obvious favourites of the forthcoming game. “Los Colchoneros” are very stable and thus must beat the visitors easily. The only thing the visitors can do is to try to escape the smashing fiasco as they are capable to defense well. It should be noted that, 22 out of 23 tackles with Atletico Madrid’s participation in this season ended with under 3.5 scored goals and there is no objective reason for cutting that streak
Prediction for the match: Atletico Madrid to win. Under 3.5 scored goals.
