Atlético Madrid will be looking for another win after the 3-1 Champions League success vs Union Saint-Gilloise.
In that game, Atlético Madrid had 67% possession and 14 shots on goal with 6 of them on target. For Atlético Madrid, the goals were scored by Julián Alvarez (39'), Conor Gallagher (72') and Llorente (96'). Union Saint-Gilloise had 8 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. Ross Sykes (80') was the scorer for Union Saint-Gilloise.
Over their past 6 games, Diego Simeone's Atlético Madrid have seen rewards for their attempts on goal a total of 9 times, an average number of goals per match of 1.5.
Taking a look at their past results, Atlético Madrid:
Following on from suffering a loss in their previous game against Celta Vigo in La Liga competition, Levante and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.
The stats tell the story, and Levante have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, seeing opposing sides hit 10 goals in total. In defence, Levante have seen their frailties exposed. That aside, it remains to be seen whether such a trend will persist in this next match or not.
Looking at the pre-match facts, Levante:
If we look at their past head to head meetings dating back to 23/06/2020, there is nothing to separate the two clubs with Atlético Madrid winning 2 of those games, Levante 2 and 2 being drawn in regulation time.
A combined sum of 12 goals were scored between them in this period, with 6 from Atleti and 6 created by Levante. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.
The Atlético Madrid boss Diego Simeone will be grateful not to have any fitness concerns to speak of before this clash with a fully healthy group available to choose from.
It looks as if Atleti will probably kick off with a 4-4-2 system for the game, utilising Jan Oblak, Marcos Llorente, Jose Gimenez, David Hancko, Matteo Ruggeri, Giuliano Simeone, Koke, Pablo Barrios, Alejandro Baena, Alexander Soerloth and Julian Alvarez.
Thanks to a completely injury-free group available to select from, the Levante manager Julián Calero has no fitness concerns to report ahead of this clash.
We believe Levante could decide to begin the game with a 4-4-2 formation, choosing Mathew Ryan, Jeremy Toljan, Unai Elgezabal, Matias Moreno, Manuel Sanchez, Carlos Alvarez, Kervin Arriaga, Jon Olasagasti, Roger Brugue, Etta Eyong and Goduine Koyalipou.
In our view, Atlético Madrid will, in all likelihood, get a lot of shots on goal and make them count.
Conversely, Levante may well find it hard to make a breakthrough but we do think it’s quite likely that they will be getting enough chances to score, too.
We’re predicting a comfortable 3-1 winning score for Atlético Madrid at the end of the 90 minutes.