Valencia vs Atletico Madrid – La Liga – Preview

Posted on March 6, 2016 by Sreya

Atletico Madrid travel to Mestalla as they face Valencia in a La Liga fixture on 6th March, Sunday. Atletico Madrid are in the second position on league standings, with sixty one points, behind league leaders Barcelona.

Valencia, meanwhile, are on the tenth position as their nightmare of a season continues. With thirty four points from eight wins in their twenty seven matches so far, Valencia are in desperate need of victories to finish strongly.

Team News

Zakaria Bakkali has been ruled out with an injury for Valencia while Enzo Perez has been listed as a doubt. Jose Gaya sits out with a suspension but Joao Cancelo is set to return from his suspension and feature as a fullback.

Atletico Madrid will be without the suspended Augusto Fernandez and the injured Tiago and Stefan Savic.

Valencia Possible Starting Lineup: Diego Alves, Joao Cancelo, Shkodran Mustafi, Aymen Abdennour, Guilherm Siqueira, Andre Gomes, Enzo Perez, Daniel Parejo, Sofiane Feghouli, Alvaro Negredo, Denis Cheryshev.

Atletico Madrid Possible Starting Lineup: Jan Oblak, Juanfran, Raul Gimenez, Diego Godin, Felipe Luis, Koke, Saul Niguez, Gabi, Yannick Carrasco, Fernando Torres, Antoine Griezmann.

Contributor’s Pick

According to Head-2-Head statistics, Valencia have won only one of the last six meetings between these two sides, with Atletico Madrid winning thrice. Atletico have won five of their last six away matches in the league and has kept a clean sheet in nine of their previous eleven league fixtures.

On current form, Atletico Madrid are likely to win with a possible scoreline of 2-0.