Comments and predictions for Atletico Madrid vs Valencia: The home team is too strong

Atletico Madrid will look to maintain their unbeaten record in the 2024-25 season when they host Valencia on Sunday.

The home team currently have eight points, while Valencia have only picked up one point from their first four La Liga games.

Latest Atletico Madrid vs Valencia squad information

Atletico midfielder Pablo Barrios will be out for three weeks after suffering a muscle injury during a training session with Spain Under-21s.

Reinildo Mandava has also had injury problems during international duty, but there are hopes that the Mozambican defender will be in the squad this weekend.

After missing the win over Athletic through illness, Atleti's first-choice goalkeeper Jan Oblak will return to the squad for Sunday's game.

Cesar Azpilicueta, Rodrigo De Paul and Alexander Sorloth are all expected to come in, while Julian Alvarez could be benched.

Meanwhile, Valencia recently announced that they have taken disciplinary action against Rafa Mir following his arrest over alleged sexual assault.

Mir was released on bail and initially suspended for two matches by the club, but ESPN said he has been left out of the squad for an unspecified period.

Coach Baraja is also without four injured players in Jaume Domenech, Mouctar Diakhaby, Hugo Duro and Jose Gaya, with Gaya set to be out for at least another month after consulting a doctor in Finland.

Dani Gomez broke his nose in training earlier this month and is expected to wear a face mask for his first La Liga start of the season.

Latest expected lineup Atletico Madrid vs Valencia

Atletico Madrid:

Oblak; Le Normand, Gimenez, Azpilicueta; Llorente, Koke, De Paul, Lino; Griezmann, Gallagher; Sorloth

Valencia:

Mamardashvili; Correia, Mosquera, Tarrega, Vazquez; Guillamon, Pepelu; Lopez, Almeida, Rioja; Gomez

Latest football commentary Atletico Madrid vs Valencia

Atletico Madrid will head into the weekend in impressive form, having picked up two wins and two draws from their first four games, currently sitting in third place and four points behind leaders Barcelona.

Atleti started the season with a draw against Villarreal and a 2-0 win over Girona, before they suffered a disappointing goalless draw against newly promoted Espanyol at the Metropolitano.

Diego Simeone's side looked destined for another goalless draw in their away clash with Athletic Bilbao, until Angel Correa scored a stoppage-time winner to secure Atleti's first away win of the season.

Simeone will be pleased that his side have recorded three consecutive clean sheets and are yet to concede in the second half of a La Liga game this season.

Atleti can be confident of keeping a clean sheet on Sunday having kept clean sheets in their last two home games against Valencia - a 3-0 win in March 2023 and a 2-0 win in January this year.

In fact, Atletico have generally performed well in home games against Los Che, having won eight of their last nine encounters.

Valencia will be content with their tenth-place finish last season, but Ruben Baraja may be concerned about his side's poor finish, which saw them pick up just two points from their final seven games.

Unfortunately for Los Che, that poor form has continued into the new season, with the first four games yielding just one draw and three defeats.

Valencia started the season with three consecutive defeats to Barcelona, ​​Celta Vigo and Athletic Bilbao, before they picked up their first point of the season with a 1-1 home draw against Villarreal.

Los Che can view the draw as a missed opportunity after playing more than 20 minutes with a man advantage following Pape Gueye's dismissal.

With a poor start to the season, Valencia enter this weekend as one of four teams yet to win in La Liga this season, along with Las Palmas, Sevilla and Getafe.

However, Valencia could struggle to change that this weekend, having failed to win any of their last 15 competitive away games against Atletico. Atletico are a tough side to beat at the Metropolitano, and with Valencia lacking confidence after three defeats in four games, we think Atleti will do enough to add three points to their tally and remain unbeaten in the new campaign.

Score prediction Atletico Madrid vs Valencia

Based on the above football comments, we and the world's leading football sites have given the following results for the match Atletico Madrid vs Valencia :

• Sportsmole: Atletico Madrid 2-0 Valencia

• WhoScore: Atletico Madrid 1-0 Valencia
• Our prediction: Atletico Madrid 2-0 Valencia

When and where to watch Atletico Madrid vs Valencia live?

To watch the Atletico Madrid vs Valencia match live in La Liga at 2:00 a.m. on September 16, viewers can watch it on K+ Sport, K+PM or online sports channels. Wish you all have fun watching football.

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