Atletico Madrid vs Real Madrid: Preview, Predictions

Atletico Madrid vs Real Madrid
UEFA Champions League Semi Final Second Leg
Date: Wednesday, 10th May 2017
Kick-off at 19:45 UK / 20:45 CET
Venue: Estadio Vicente Calderon.

Real Madrid pretty much closed the tie in the first leg at Santiago Bernabeu, but Diego Simeone naturally refused to give up and announced a huge battle in the rematch at Vicente Calderon.

Atleti will practically have a mission impossible to annul Real’s massive 3-0 edge from the first leg and we honestly see it as a mission impossible.

Atletico Madrid

Simeone has had the weakest season since he took charge of Atletico Madrid, in spite of having a respectable lineup led by the French superstar Antoine Griezmann in the final third.

The team has been miles away from the battle for the top of Primera Division. However, they will still most likely come third at the end of the season top earn the direct qualification for the group stage of the most elite competition next year.

The Argentine head coach, interestingly, used his top lineup in the weekend’s narrow win over Eibar. It was Saul who bagged the match-winner 20 minutes from time to push Atleti five points clear of Sevilla at the third position in the La Liga.

Real Madrid

Zinedine Zidane expectedly gave rest to his star men in the league clash with the rock-bottomed Granada.

James Rodriguez and Alvaro Morata again took advantage of the opportunity to score a brace each and lead Los Blancos to a comfortable 0-4 win at Nuevo Los Carmenes.

Atletico Madrid vs Real Madrid: Head to head

Cristiano Ronaldo stole the show netting a hat-trick in the first leg of the semi-final tie. This is the third consecutive Champions League campaign which sees the rivals from the Spanish capital taking on each other at the very end of the competition.

Real Madrid somehow always managed to come out on top and this semi-final has seen their most impressive display against the arch-rivals.

Atletico Madrid vs Real Madrid: Prediction

Atleti will have to hold Real Madrid from striking if they want to keep any chances of making their way to the finals.

This will obviously be one hell of a task as we all know that Real Madrid have one of the strongest attacking lineups in the world at the moment.

On the other side, Simeone’s men will be desperate to find an early goal which would give them wings and this is just something to open up the space from real’s killing counter attacks.