Atletico Madrid vs Bayern Munich Preview

Atlético Madrid have conceded once in their last five games; Bayern Munich have scored 19 in theirs. That contrast frames Tuesday night’s meeting at the Riyadh Air Metropolitano, where two sides sitting just outside the top half of the Champions League league phase table meet with ground to make up. Bayern are 14th with five points from three games, a point ahead of 16th-placed Atlético. Both played on Saturday, so neither side has the edge on rest. Kick-off is at 8pm GMT.

Four wins and a draw, seven goals scored and one conceded: Atlético’s recent record is built on defence. Saturday’s 2-0 win at Levante was the latest, a week after a 1-0 home win over Deportivo La Coruña. Their previous Champions League outing ended 1-1 at Stuttgart, the only game in the sample in which they conceded, and earlier in the run they won 1-0 at Espanyol and beat Manchester United 2-0 at home in Europe. Atlético have not scored more than twice in any of the five games, but they have kept four clean sheets.

Bayern are unbeaten in five, with three wins and two draws. The most recent was Saturday’s 2-2 home draw with Dortmund in the Bundesliga, three days after a 6-1 win over Magdeburg in the DFB-Pokal. Before that, they won 3-1 at Freiburg and drew 2-2 at home with Arsenal in the Champions League, while the oldest result is a 6-1 home win over RB Leipzig. That adds up to 19 goals scored and seven conceded, and Bayern have scored at least twice in every game. Both draws finished 2-2, and both came at home.

These sides have not met since December 2020, and Bayern have the edge across the five meetings in the sample, with three wins to Atlético’s one and a draw. The most recent was a 1-1 draw at the Metropolitano in December 2020, and before that Bayern won 4-0 at home in October 2020. Atlético are unbeaten in the two home games in the sample, having also won 1-0 in Madrid in September 2016. The oldest meeting, in May 2016, was a 2-1 Bayern win, though it was Atlético who went through in that tie. All five meetings came in this competition.

Bayern Munich sit 14th in the league phase on five points from three games, one ahead of 16th-placed Atlético Madrid on four. A Bayern win would take them to eight points and up to sixth on current standings, while an Atlético win would lift them to seven, level with Stuttgart and Arsenal.

In Spain, the match is on Movistar Liga de Campeones and Movistar Liga de Campeones 4, with streaming on Movistar+ and Movistar Plus+, while German viewers can stream it on DAZN Germany or Amazon Prime Video. In the UK, it’s live on TNT Sports 2 with streaming on HBO Max, and US viewers can watch on TUDN USA and UniMás or stream through Paramount+.

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