Atletico Madrid vs Villarreal 12.11.2023 Prediction: La Liga

Match Overview

Villarreal travel to the Estadio Civitas Metropolitano on Sunday to take on Atletico Madrid in a match in the 13th round of the Spanish La Liga. Ranked 2nd in goals scored per match (2.4 goals), Atletico will naturally feel more confident of winning this game than their opponents, simply because of how strong their defence appears to be in comparison to their opponents.

Key Highlights 

There have been a total of 24 games recorded between these two teams in the past, out of which Atletico Madrid have won eight. Villarreal have been victorious on seven occasions while the rest of the nine matches were played out as drawn encounters. The last time these two teams met, in June, they played out an interesting 2-2 draw.

Injury Report

Both these teams have quite a few injured players in their ranks. While Atletico will have to make do without the services of Vitolo and Thomas Lemar among others, Villarreal will be plagued by the absence of Yeremi Pinto and Denis Suarez.

Prediction

Neither Atletico nor Villarreal appear to be the downright favourites to win this game. We expect BTTS (both teams to score) in this game. At the time of writing, Atletico are ranked in the fourth position of the league table with 25 points to their name whereas Villarreal are perched lowly upon the thirteenth position of the same standings with a mere 12 points inside their kitty.