Atletico Madrid vs Arsenal Prediction, Betting Tips and Preview

Atletico Madrid are favourites to progress as they take on Arsenal in the return leg of the Europa League semi final. Read the match predictions to find out why we make Atletico Madrid the football betting tip to beat Arsenal at the Wanda Metropolitano.

Atletico Madrid vs Arsenal Preview

Antoine Griezmann’s last equaliser put Atletico Madrid in the driving seat for this Europa League semi final tie and the return of Diego Costa will be an added bonus for Diego Simeone’s men.

Costa played for 63 minutes against Alaves at the weekend and haven proven his fitness, is expected to return to the lineup on Thursday. Simeone’s only selection issue is at right back. Sime Vrsaljko was sent off at the Emirates and is suspended for the second leg. With doubts that Juanfran can recover in time, Thomas Partey may be asked to play in defence.

Arsenal forward Henrikh Mkhitaryan returned from injury to score against Manchester United on Sunday and could replace Danny Welbeck in Thursday’s lineup. Arsene Wenger can otherwise name an unchanged side to the one that drew in the first leg having rested Aaron Ramsey, Alexandre Lacazette, Jack Wilshere, Laurent Koscielny, Nacho Monreal and Shkodran Mustafi at the weekend.

Atletico Madrid vs Arsenal Betting Tips

• Atletico Madrid have won 4 drawn 3 and lost 3 of their last 10 matches
• Arsenal have won 6 drawn 2 and lost 2 of their last 10 matches
• Over the course of their previous 10 matches, Atletico Madrid have scored an average of 1.0 goals and conceded an average of 0.8 goals per game
• Over the course of their previous 10 matches, Arsenal have scored an average of 2.5 goals and conceded an average of 1.2 goals per game
• There have been over 2.5 goals scored in 3 of Atletico Madrid’s previous 10 matches
• There have been over 2.5 goals scored in 9 of Arsenal’s previous 10 matches

Atletico Madrid vs Arsenal Prediction

Jack Wilshere described Atletico Madrid as the best counter attacking side in Europe ahead of the first leg. That’s the way it turned out when Griezmann got on the end of a long clearance to grab a valuable away goal.

Arsenal had 78% possession against Atletico who were reduced to 10 men after only 10 minutes. The Gunners are now faced with the problem of breaking down a defence that has kept a clean sheet in each of its last 11 home games in all competitions.

The stats don’t look too kindly on the visitors who have only won two of the last 12 away games although those wins came in earlier rounds of this competition when defeating Ostersunds 3-0 and Milan 2-0

Atletico are well practised in this scenario on the European stage and we predict the Spanish side to win by the narrowest margin.

Atletico Madrid 4-4-2 formation: Oblak; Hernandez, Godin, Gimenez, Partey; Koke, Saul, Gabi, Correa; Griezmann, Costa

Arsenal 4-3-2-1 formation: Ospina; Bellerin,Mustafi, Koscielny, Monreal; Ramsey, Xhaka, Wilshere; Ozil, Mkhitaryan; Lacazette

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