Inter Milan, one of the favorites for the Champions League crown, restarts action in Europe with a tricky home fixture against Atletico Madrid on Tuesday.
Bookmaker BetOnline offers odds at 2.20 for Inter to register a clean sheet, while the odds are at 4.25 for Atletico to finish the game without conceding a goal. Meanwhile, you can back both teams to score with the odds at 2.00, and the odds are at 1.77 for both teams not to score.
※ Current Odds Date & Time: February 19th, 6:30 P.M. (EST)
Inter has bounced back very strongly from last year’s defeat to Manchester City in the Champions League final and is currently riding an eight-game winning streak across all competitions. Marcus Thuram and Lautaro Martinez keep banging in the goals, and the backline with goalkeeper Yann Sommer appears unbeatable at times – the current winning stretch includes five clean sheets.
With Thuram and Martinez in hot form, Inter has joined Stuttgart as the only teams in the top five leagues in Europe this season to have multiple players who have scored at least 10 goals from open play. The two forwards have formed a deadly duo and will be a major threat to Atletico from the opening minute on Tuesday.
Atleti has had its own prolific pairing up top this season, with Alvaro Morata and Antoine Griezmann combining for 37 goals across all competitions, but the former has run into injury issues and his absence will limit Atletico’s threat.
Diego Simeone’s men have hit a rough patch lately, winning only once in four outings, although Saturday’s big 5-0 win over Las Palmas could be a sign that the team is starting to hit form again. It’s Atletico’s biggest home league win this season. But can Simeone also squeeze out a good road performance from the team now?
Playing away from home has been difficult for Atleti throughout the season and the run of poor results even included a four-game away losing streak in the league – the worst of Simeone’s reign. With only six away victories registered across the entire season in all competitions, a winning effort at San Siro would be something very special for Atletico.
The two teams meet for just the second time in history. The only previous clash came in the 2010 UEFA Super Cup, which saw a Quique Sanchez Flores-led Atletico defeat Rafa Benitez’s Inter 2-0.
