The program of Sunday matches of the 21st round of the Spanish La Liga continued in Madrid. At the Wanda Metropolitano Stadium, Atlético's second team of the championship received guests from the Canary Islands, Las Palmas, which is in the penultimate place. Recall that the match of the first round ended with a crushing victory of "mattress" 1-5. Directly today's meeting was served by the main referee Alfonso Alvarez.
Atlético Madrid 3-0 Las Palmas
Diego Simeone could not count on four main players at once. Diego Costa has not yet fully recovered from his injury, Felipe Luis and Niko Gaitan have been in the infirmary for a long time, and Sime Vrsaljko has a bust yellow cards. Four performers could not help the guests. Atlético played in the usual 4-4-2 formation, while Las Palmas opted for a 4-1-4-1 formation.
Atlético spent the entire first half breaking down the Las Palmas resistance. "Matress" completely controlled the course of the meeting, attacked more, possessed the ball and shot at the opponent's goal, but to no avail. Torres had the most dangerous moments in the 23rd and Griezmann in the 25th minute: the Spaniard struck near the post, and the Frenchman closed the pass with a spectacular heel strike from the flank, but hit the post.
Who knows, maybe Las Palmas would have defended the heroic defense for ninety minutes, if not for the cut in the 61st minute. Juanfran nibbled on the opponent's pass on the right flank and instantly brought Antoine Griezmann one on one with a split pass - the Frenchman brilliantly disposed of such a present from his partner, elegantly throwing the goalkeeper over. In the 72nd minute, the Palms were cut off in a similar way, and this time there was also a conceded goal. Fernando Torres received the ball on the outskirts of the box, at cruising speed he entered it and sent the ball under the crossbar with a cannon shot, 2-0.
Finally, the guests were finished off in the 88th minute, the goal was organized by Thomas and Ferreira-Carrasco, both appeared as a substitute in the second half. Note that the "palms" missed again as a result of a counterattack. Yannick Ferreira-Carrasco ran one on one with the goalkeeper, he could shoot himself, but showed altruism and passed to a free partner, 3-0.
As a result, Atletico breaks the resistance of Las Palmas and acquires a natural crushing victory. "Mattress" score 46 points and continue to chase Barcelona, "Las Palmas" remains in the relegation zone and just one point ahead of "Malaga", which is in last place. In the next round, the "mattress" will play against the main competitor for the silver "Valencia", and "Las Palmas" will just take "Malaga".
Saturday's program of matches of the 2nd round of the Spanish La Liga will close the match at the stadium "Gran Canaria" - "Las Palmas" will take "Atletico". The last visit of “Matress” is probably still fresh in the memory of the fans of the islanders – at the end of last season, the team dismantled the “amarillos” for spare parts, scoring five unanswered goals to the opponent. And in just two years, "Mattress" got on the "Gran Canaria" for three consecutive "dry" victory with a total goal difference of 10:0.
“Las Palmas” has definitely become weaker over the summer. First, left the team Main coach, the man who made the clubs elite division take the islanders seriously. Secondly, it took several important players the main composition -, Kevin-Prince Boateng, Hese, and, and were often used in rotation. However, there are also enough high-quality newcomers - Vitolo, but the latter will definitely not play against the team he will transfer to in January, but for now he is playing in his native Las Palmas on loan. Recently, the islanders rented two central midfielders - young and experienced. In general, perestroika is going according to plan, as Yegor Letov's song sang.
In the first round, Las Palmas looked very unconvincing in the away game against Valencia, which they regularly upset under Quique Setien. But under Manolo Marquez, who made his debut at the helm of the “Amarillos”, there was a minimally and fully deserved, albeit minimal defeat (0:1). Perhaps everything would have turned out a little differently if he had not gotten a stupid red card in the middle of the second half.
Did not play in full the first match of the new season and Atlético. This earned him the first deletion of his career. First, the Frenchman was given a "yellow card" for allegedly simulating (as for me, the referee made a mistake), and then a straight red followed by a long tongue. By that time, Madrid were “burning” with a score of 0: 2 in a duel against La Liga debutant Girona, and it seemed that they were going to lose, but we all know the fighting qualities and character of Diego Simeone and his guys, as well as the ability of the team squeeze the maximum out of the minimum. As a result, everything ended in a draw 2:2. Of course, no one planned to lose points in the match with the debutant, but by the way the match turned out, the final result can be considered quite acceptable.
Las Palmas v Atlético: indicative lineups
Before the face-to-face meeting, both teams have one disqualified player (Khalilovich - Griezmann) and one injured (Vicente - Gaitan). Plus, “Las Palmas” will not play Vitolo. Compared to the match of the first round, several changes are expected in the composition of the islanders - instead of Simon, Lemos, Vitolo and Halilovic, Michel, Momo and, respectively, will come out.
As for Atlético, they are returning to service, and, but we are waiting for the first of them in starting lineup. Godin is likely to be paired with a young compatriot, while Savic will start the match on the bench. Griezmann will most likely be replaced by a great substitute in Girona, and instead of Torres in El Niño, an attack is expected. Well, it is also likely that the Croat Vrsalko will enter the right edge of the defense instead of Juanfran.
"Las Palmas" - "Atletico": the forecast of the author
“Atletico” in recent years has played well against “Las Palmas”, and “Las Palmas” is now weaker than the same sample of the past two years. Plus, Madrid will certainly be motivated properly after the misfire in Girona, and will do everything to get their first win of the season. They have all the necessary resources for this - they have the cards in their hands. I bet on the victory of the guests with a difference of one or two goals and, most likely, "dry" (between 1:0 and 2:0 I tend to favor the second option).
Match bet
Spanish Championship 26.08.17 23:15
Las Palmas - Atletico Madrid
Atlético Madrid win
TEAMS STATUS
| # | TEAM | And | AT | H | P | M | RM | O |
| 9 | Atlético Madrid | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2-2 | +0 | 1 |
| 18 | "Las Palmas" | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0-1 | -1 | 0 |
Previous meeting of the teams in La Liga
04/29/2017. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Gran Canaria Stadium. 23,523 viewers
Las Palmas 0-5 Atlético Madrid
Goals: Gameiro, 2, 18, Saul, 17, Tomas, 72, Torres, 90+1
"Las Palmas" Varas, Michel, David Garcia, Bigas,
Atlético - Las Palmas. Forecast for the match of the 21st round of the Spanish La Liga (01/28/2018, 18:15 Moscow time).
Atletico Madrid performed very poorly in the second half of February, and today the capital team will try to break the losing streak and win in last match month. Diego Simeone's team will definitely succeed today, at least that's what bookmakers think, offering a low odds of 1.21 to win "mattress". This is not surprising, because the penultimate team of La Liga “Las Palmas” will come to visit Madrid, which “Atletico” poured 5 goals in the last two full-time meetings.
| M | Team | And | AT | H | P | RM | O |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | "Atletico" | 20 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 29:9 | 43 |
| 19 | "Las Palmas" | 20 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 16:47 | 14 |
"Atletico"
“Atletico” over the past week and a half seriously disappointed their fans. It has long been clear that it is unlikely that Barcelona will be able to compete in the championship, so even a home draw with Girona (1:1) did not bring much frustration - the gap from the Catalans grew from nine to 11 points. But the King's Cup was included in the plans of "mattress", but in the quarterfinals the team of Diego Simeone lost to "Seville". Moreover, Madrid lost in both matches of the confrontation, first losing 1:2 at home, and then quite deservedly losing 1:3 on the road. Now Atlético must stop losing points in the championship, so that later it will be possible to rotate the squad in the domestic arena, tuning in to win the Europa League, where the mattress toppers will participate from mid-February.
Will not play: Sime Vrsaljko (disqualified). Felipe Luis and Diego Costa (injured).
"Las Palmas"
Despite the deplorable standings, Las Palmas does not intend to give up and put up with a possible relegation to the Segunda. Although before the last round the islanders had another sad series of three defeats in a row – from the “Getafe” (0:2), “Eibar” (1:2) and “Girona” (0:6). In addition, the Canaries were eliminated from the Spanish Cup by Valencia (1:1, 0:4). It seemed that in home match La Liga against Valencia, the team of Paco Jemes does not shine, besides, Las Palmas conceded a quick goal from the Levantines, but then the outsider showed his character and managed to snatch a victory with a score of 2: 1, which allowed at least to get away from the last places. Now the backlog from the saving zone of the islanders is 5 points.
Will not play: Pedro Bigas, Michel, Sergi Samper and Momo (injured).
Estimated compositions
Where to watch the match
At 18:10 Moscow time, the Setanta Sport Eurasia TV channel will begin a live broadcast dedicated to the Atlético Madrid - Las Palmas match. A text broadcast of this fight will be available on the LiveResult.Ru portal at this time.
head-to-head statistics
Atlético beat Las Palmas more than half of all personal meetings: +35=16-16, goal difference 121:72. It is worth noting that in the last 12 full-time meetings, Madrid won 11 times, and only once the islanders. Moreover, this only victory for the Canarians was in the second leg of the Spanish Cup, which did not help them go to the next round. In the first round match this season Atlético beat Las Palmas 5-1 away.
- "Atletico" has a 3-match losing streak (+0=1-2, goal difference 3:6);
- In seven matches in 2018, Atlético scored;
- "Atletico", along with "Barcelona", has the best defense of the championship - 9 goals conceded;
- Atlético have 7 matches winning streak over "Las Palmas" in La Liga, while conceding only one goal (+7=0-0, 19:1);
- In the last two head-to-head meetings, Atletico scored 5 goals against Las Palmas;
- In the last eight away matches of the championship, "Las Palmas" earned only 1 point (+0=1-7, 2:23);
- "Las Palmas" has the worst defense of the championship - 47 goals conceded;
- Las Palmas have failed to score in 11 of their last 13 away games in La Liga.
Forecast for the match from "Euro-football.ru"
Weakly believe in the possibility of extending the winless streak of Atlético. Diego Simeone's team should calmly deal with Las Palmas at home in order to somehow rehabilitate themselves for the departure from the Spanish Cup. The islanders play very poorly away - the last 3 away matches were lost with a total score of 0:10. Most likely the team of Hemes will not score again, given that the “mattress”, as a rule, play reliably in defense. Our forecast: "Win with a dry score" ("Atletico") - odds 1.81