The Spanish Football Championship offers an intermediate round, in the middle of the week. From 22:00 on the 10th stage, Atletico Madrid competes in the middle of the ranking.

Atletico is in 3rd place with 19 points, 6 points behind leaders Real. Rayo is in 10th place with 11 points.

Atletico Madrid, who are in 3rd place in their Champions League group alongside FC Brugge, FC Porto and Bayer Leverkusen, have high hopes for the championship. The goal is to get into the top 4 teams to ensure access to the League groups for the next season as well.

After two disappointing results against the Belgian group leaders, 0-2 at Club Brugge and 0-0 at home, Atletico regained their morale in La Liga with a 1-0 draw against Athletic Bilbao at the San Mamés Stadium where they won a hard fought victory. .

Frenchman Antoine Griezmann decided, who interrupted Diego Simeone’s statement: “After 11 years at Atletico, I still get excited when I win like today.”

Several players, Correa, Koke, Lemar, Witsel and Morata are likely to be sidelined after a run of matches that have drained them physically and mentally. That will make room for Joao Felix, a Portuguese who is slowly proving himself at a high level. Also, Slovenian goalkeeper Jan Oblak will not be able to be used due to an injury.

Rayo isn’t having much fun. They lost 3-1 to Almeria, then drew goalless with Getafe at home in Madrid.

A draw has been absent from the team’s record since August 13, when they shut out Barcelona earlier in the season. Since then, the results for Iraola’s band have been in leaps and bounds: sometimes wins, sometimes failures.

Rayo are pushing hard to break the ice in head-to-head duels, with particular ambitions for ‘former’ Radamel Falcao, the Colombian who made history at Atletico.

The last 5 matches saw the hosts win without conceding a goal on Tuesday, 4 times it was 1-0 and once it ended 2-0.

Superbet awards at least one goal scored by Rayo Vallecano at odds of 1.85.

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