Overview
Atletico Madrid's form has been relatively stable recently. In the most recent match, coach Diego Simeone's team defeated Sevilla with a dramatic 4-3 score, thereby winning their 9th consecutive victory in all competitions.
With a series of 5 consecutive wins in La Liga, the Metropolitano team is closing in on Barcelona and Real Madrid in the rankings. They are only 3 points behind the leader Blaugrana but have played 1 game less. In the Champions League, Atletico Madrid also just defeated Sparta Praha 6-0.
Atletico under Diego Simeone are renowned for their solid defence, but their attack is also performing well. In their last five games, Los Rojiblancos have scored a total of 20 goals, an average of four goals per game.
New signing Julian Alvarez has increasingly integrated well into Atletico's style of play with 11 goals this season. Meanwhile, Antoine Griezmann is still playing a pivotal role with 9 goals.
Slovan Bratislava is considered the weakest team in the Champions League this season. After the first 5 matches, they lost all and conceded 18 goals.
In addition, coach Vladimir Weiss's team was defeated by MSK Zilina in the most recent match in the Slovakian national championship. This defeat caused them to let their opponents narrow the gap to only 1 point in the championship race.
Not only will this be Atletico's first match against Slovan Bratislava, it will also be Los Rojiblancos' first against a team from Slovakia.
Slovan Bratislava have faced Spanish opposition before and are winless in their last 7 matches (D2 L5). They are currently on a 3-match losing streak against opponents from this country.
Human resources situation
Atletico Madrid rotated their squad quite a bit and had almost full strength, except for the absence of Thomas Lemar.
On the other side of the front line, Slovan Bratislava also has full personnel, except for Marko Tolic - a suspended player.
Expected lineup:
Atletico Madrid: Oblak, Llorente, Gimenez, Lenglet, Galan, Simeone, De Paul, Barrios, Gallagher, Sorloth, Alvarez.
Slovan Bratislava: Takac, Bajric, Kashia, Voet, Blackman, Kucka, Savvidis, Medvedev, Barseghyan, Strelec, Metsoko.
The match between Atletico Madrid and Slovan Bratislava takes place at 0:45 am on December 12 (Vietnam time).
