Espanyol – athletic. Forecast and announcement for the Spanish Championship match

On August 17, a match of the 1st round of Primers of Spain will take place at the RCDE Arena, in which Espanyol will meet Atletico.

The match will start at 22:30.

Sport.ua together with Betking announces the future match!

Espanyol

The team has recently survived a difficult segment when she could not fix himself in any way among the participants of La League and rolled into Segunda. Therefore, there were fears that she would have been released last season, before which they made their way to increase only through the playoffs. But this time everything happened successfully, despite the very high level of competition: Leganes flew, scoring 40 points! The Catalans had two more, and they even accommodated in the fourteenth position.

In the summer, the neighboring Barcelona, without bargaining, took Jean Garcia. As a result, the club remained without the main goalkeeper, and only time will tell how fully it will be replaced by Dmitrovich, who arrived with Leganes. But the rates of 25 million have allowed to issue a number of purchases, including Kike Garcia and Roberto Fernandez.

Athletic

The club did not at least impress last season. A tangible result was that he returned to third place in Primera. There were chances of success in the Champions and Cup of the country, but they lost there accordingly Real and Barcelona. And at the World Cup, the Spaniards did not get out in the playoffs! However, Diego Simeone retained his position.

Moreover, again there is a shutter of the composition, albeit not as large-scale as in 2024. But Cardozo and Tyago Almada, and Raspradori cost every more than 20 million, and Ganzko – under 35. On the other hand, not only frankly unnecessary players like Vitsele, Saul, and especially Lemar, but also those who were exactly in Korrea, Lino, where, were already unnecessary. In general, the team seems to have become stronger, but it is necessary to confirm it in practice, and starting from the first round.

Personal meetings

All the last four duels brought only draws.

Forecast

Bookmaker offices expect that Madrid Grand will finally squeeze a maximum of three points out of this match. We put that guests win. The Betking Bookmaker estimates the likelihood of such a result with a factor of 1.60.