Diego Simeone and his team travel to Anoeta mid-week to extend lead at the top and get a lead of 3 points with 2 games in hand. Alley Sport is here with Atletico Madrid Predicted lineup vs Real Sociedad.
Atletico Madrid come into this fixture with a win 3-1 over Elche in which Luis Suarez scored a brace and Diego Costa scored from the spot-kick as he came on from the bench to give Simeone boost as his side had lost the Madrid Derby the previous week.
Real Sociedad on the other hand come into this fixture with back to back defeats against Barcelona and most recently against away against Levante 1-2 in a game where Real Sociedad took the lead in the twenty second minute via Alexander Isak, Levante replied six minutes later via Roger Marti and then scored the winner in the eighty-seventh minute courtesy of a Jorge De Frutos. This loss pushes Sociedad to third position.
Atletico Madrid Predicted lineup vs Real Sociedad Preview
Teams Real Sociedad & Atletico Madrid played so far 33 matches. Real Sociedad won twelve direct matches. Atletico Madrid won seventeen matches. Four matches ended in a draw. On average in direct matches both teams scored a 2.58 goals per match.
Real Sociedad La Liga form: W-D-D-D-L-L
Atletico Madrid La Liga form: W-W-W-W-L-W
The last time these sides met the match ended in a draw 1-1 in which Koke scored for Atletico around the thirtieth minute mark and then in the eighty-seventh minute a Hector Herrera own goal gave a point to Real Sociedad.
Atletico Madrid Predicted lineup vs Real Sociedad Team News
Atletico will again be without the services of Hector Herrera through injury, while Jose Maria Gimenez remains a doubt with a thigh problem this could mean that Mario Hermoso can get the nod at Centre-back, and there is also a concern over Joao Felix.
Costa made his return from injury against Elche on Saturday, but the Spain international is expected to be on the bench once again, with Angel Correa expected to replace Felix if the attacker is unable to recover from a rib injury in time for the contest. Here is our Atletico Madrid Predicted lineup vs Real Sociedad:
Atletico Madrid Predicted lineup vs Real Sociedad
Atletico Madrid possible starting XI:-
Formation 5-3-2
GK: Jan Oblak
RWB: Keiran Trippier
CB: Stefan Savić
CB: Mario Hermoso
CB: Felipe Monteiro
LWB: Yannik Carrasco
DM: Koke
CM: Marcus Llorente
AM: Saul Niguez
ST: Angel Correa
ST: Luis suarez
We predict that Atletico Madrid will win the game 1-0.
The Match will be Streamed live on Facebook Watch for the world and will kickoff at 12:15 AM IST in India, Wednesday 23rd December and for British viewers the match will kick off on Tuesday 22nd December at GMT 6:45 PM. What is your Atletico Madrid Predicted lineup vs Real Sociedad?
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