The La Liga weekend finishes with one of the biggest fixtures in Spanish football as Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid clash at Metropolitano Stadium on Sunday. Atleti will look to ruin Real’s perfect start to the season.
Can Jude Bellingham produce yet another big moment for Real in the special match-up? Bookmaker 10bet offers odds at 3.70 for him to maintain his excellent form and score another goal.
※ Current Odds Date & Time: September 22nd, 9:30 A.M. (EST)
Six games into his Real career, Bellingham has been kept off the scoresheet just once. Real Sociedad found a way to keep him quiet last weekend, but Bellingham responded to it by producing a dramatic game-winner in the Champions League versus Union Berlin. Incredibly, four of his six Real goals have been game-winning tallies, which further shows how important Bellingham has been to Real’s early season success.
Being a Real player can’t be easy, with the fans expecting big performances and results week in, week out, but Bellingham looks like he was born for such occasions. It will definitely be challenging to perform in the Metropolitano’s hostile atmosphere, but you wouldn’t put it past Bellingham to pop up with another special moment on Sunday.
This will almost be a make-or-break match already for Atletico regarding its title-winning ambitions, with the Colchoneros having suffered multiple setbacks in the season. Diego Simeone’s men have a game in hand, but they are already eight points behind Real and can’t allow the gap to grow any further if they want to contest for the championship come the end of the season.
Simeone will want to see his team bounce back from a couple of disappointing results. He called last weekend’s 3-0 defeat to Valencia the worst game Atletico has played under him, and the team’s Champions League campaign started off with a 1-1 draw versus Lazio, with the Italian side scoring a 95th-minute equalizer via goalkeeper Ivan Provedel.
Things have fallen apart very suddenly for Atletico, as it was only a few weeks ago when the team trashed Rayo Vallecano 7-0 away from home. Rayo now even sits two points ahead of Atletico on the table, which shows that this wasn’t just a walk in the park against a struggling side.
Earning three points from the derby would be a great way to get the campaign back on track, especially with the team having suffered years of disappointment in the fixture. Atletico has beaten Real just once in the past 14 head-to-head league meetings.
