EUROPE’S biggest game of the weekend is Atletico Madrid v Barcelona (7pm) and hopefully there will be goals galore.
The sides are locked at the top of La Liga with Real Madrid three points back. So it’s a night to have a punt, crack open a bottle of San Miguel and enjoy.
Diego Costa has netted in all nine home league games so will be the man to watch for Atletico as usul while Lionel Messi came off the bench after a two-month injury absence to net twice against Celta Vigo in midweek and is 7-4 (various) to hit the opener.
The last nine meetings at Vicente Calderon have seen both score. That’s the call at 11-20 at McBookie with over 3.5 goals having a chance at 7-4.
Atletico v Barcelona stats (from Oddschecker)
Barcelona have won three of the last four at Atletico Madrid by a 2-1 scoreline. A score on offer at 17-2 with BetVictor.
The last two between these two have been a draw. The draw is best priced at 13-5 with Stan James.
Barcelona have won nine and drawn three of their 12 away games this season. They’re best priced at 6-5 with bet365 for the win.
Atletico have won 13 and drawn one of their 14 home games this season and are available at 5-2 with Coral for the win.
Diego Costa has scored 23 goals in 21 games for Atletico this season and is 5-1 to score first with Betfred and is 11-8 to score anytime with Boylesports. Costa has scored in Atletico’s last 11 home games in La Liga/Champions League.
Pedro has scored seven in his last 11 games for Barca and is best priced at 2-1 with William Hill to score at anytime.
Recommended Bets
Costa to score
(11-8, boylesports)
Draw
(13-5, Stan James)
Over 3.5 goals
(7-4, bet365)
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From your write up you suggest 2-2. I’m along the same thinking but don’t think there will be as many goals. I’m going with 1-1 as I think atletico will keep it tight and hit barca on the counter. Games between the 2 this season have finished 0-0 and 1-1. And I watched Real Madrid atletico earlier in the season which finished 1-0 to atletico. Atletico will look to play on the break and costa can get his goal but barca have more then enough about them to score
Barça’s starting XI: Valdés, Alves, Piqué, Mascherano, Jordi Alba, Sergio, Xavi, Iniesta, Pedro, Cesc and Alexis
On the bench: Pinto, Bartra, Song, Messi, Neymar, Adriano and Sergi Roberto
Atlético’s XI: Courtois, Juanfran, Miranda, Godín, Filipe, Tiago, Gabi, Koke, Arda, Costa and Villa
PPower are offering D.Costa @ 7/5 to score tonight!as a rule of thumb,i avoid ANY bets where PPow offer the highest odds!Speaking through my back pocket!Shame too,as i normally back Costa to score!Go on,prove me wrong son!
With messi and neymar on the bench, the tight games previous and Madrid soaking up pressure early on, could 5/4 on draw at ht be a decent shout?
Atleticooo Madrid will win my money on them relax chill and enjoy
0-0 HT 2/1
Can’t see many goals in this, can see a 0-0
h/t 0-0 set up for messi ?
Not the best tips….
mike, tipped a draw – that’s 4 out of 5 draw tips today and I did them all. Didn’t have benefit of seeing teams or wouldn’t have gone for goals.
How many times have you looked forwards to a big game only for it to be a big let down, i for one can’t wait for next season when the biggest game in this country is going to be Rangers v Hearts…
Spot on Davie, a huge match with plenty at stake in a league where nobody will walk away with it.
Yip we don’t do walking away.. soz guys couldn’t resist..
Davie-S, exactly. People who waited for teams would have been more inclined to go unders but no one would have thought 0-0.
Didn’t notice you offering up any tips for the game Mike. No-one forces anyone to bet on them. If you did put money on them then you obviously thought that they had a good chance of coming in.
Unfortunately Tipping and Gambling aren’t exact sciences.
I for one am thankful to Mr F, and other tipsters who contribute to this site, for their hard work, effort and research. They do it all for free.
If you backed Mr F’s tips on the game wisely you would still come out in profit Mike what more do you want?
Nice draw on this game was pretty confident on a draw £30 on returned £136. Been a great day so far.
70% possession and 2 shots on target in 90 minutes . Some days I just wanna nuke the Barcelona team bus . SO FRUSTRATING … JUST SHOOT !!!!!! Good call on the draw mr f just a shame it was a bore draw ;) would never have thought 0-0
At least they aren’t French William!! ;)
Cest la vie raal cest la vie !! Lol
Luckily I actually backed the draw aswell as the 1-1 :)
Davie s , the biggest game in Scotland next season will be who ever celtic are playing in the champions league sorry couldn’t resist it.
HeHeHE i’ve got a bit Raalj took a lot longer than i thought, ach i’m in a good mood i’ll just throw it back…
Well done Davie.
Was going to do 0 – 0 aswell for the bonkers bet my second team Athletico, always liked them since a child only for the bear.