Atl. Madrid vs Valladolid prediction: SPAIN: LaLiga betting tips on match 2025-04-13 19:00.
[p]A 2-1 win at Sevilla last week kept Atlético Madrid in the La Liga title race, but a pre-round gap of seven points to leaders Barcelona means their margin for error has disappeared. That was Atleti’s first league win in four matches (D1, L2), and with a favourable fixture list between now and the end of the season, Diego Simeone’s men might not be out of the running just yet.[/p]
[p]Atlético return home to the Metropolitano having lost their first home league match since May against Barcelona in their last outing here (W10, D4). They’re big favourites to get back on track here against bottom-of-the-table Real Valladolid after winning each of the last seven H2Hs on their own turf in La Liga, keeping a clean sheet in each of the last five![/p]
[p]That’s in addition to thrashing Valladolid 5-0 in November’s reverse fixture, which is one of a league-high six La Liga losses that have been accompanied by a 4+ goal margin for the last-placed strugglers. The most recent of those six came just last weekend when they were thrashed 4-0 by Getafe in a game marred by Valladolid teammates Luis Pérez and Juanmi Latasa engaging in a physical altercation on the bench. [/p]
[p]A run of ten defeats in 11 league matches appears to have driven the squad to breaking point, and heading out on the road appears unlikely to inspire a turnaround, as they’ve remarkably also lost ten successive La Liga away games. A whopping 27 goals conceded in that run makes it clear where their problems stem from, rendering the fact they’ve scored in five of their six league losses in 2025 largely irrelevant.[/p]
[p]Players to watch: Antoine Griezmann has an outstanding personal record against Valladolid, winning ten of his 12 personal H2Hs (D2) and scoring ten goals, including one in the reverse fixture. Hoping to make more of an impression on the pitch, Latasa has scored in each of Valladolid’s last two away games, both of which ended in 2-1 defeats.[/p]
[p]Hot stat: Atlético Madrid have won 14 of the last 15 H2Hs in La Liga (D1), nine of them by a 2+ goal margin.[/p]
[p][i]Written by Aaron Murphy[/i][/p]