Leicester vs Tottenham, Villarreal vs Atletico Madrid

After a season of relegation, Leicester received the English First Division final season to earn promotion to the Premier League in 2024/25. Nevertheless, coach Steve Cooper’s group has not been effectively ready for this season. They’ve misplaced all 3 current friendlies, not even scoring a single aim. With such poor kind, Leicester can hardly hope to create a shock towards Tottenham.

Within the final 5 encounters between the 2 groups, Tottenham dominated with 4 wins.

Leicester are rated decrease than Tottenham regardless of having residence subject benefit.

Leicester are prone to be with out three key gamers because of damage, together with Jamie Vardy, Conor Coady and Patson Daka. On Tottenham’s aspect, Yves Bissouma is suspended internally, whereas Richarlison is injured.

Anticipated lineup:

Leicester: Hermansen; Kristiansen, Okoli, Faes, Pereira; Ndidi, Winks; Mavididi, Fatawu, Buonanotte; Cannon
Tottenham: Vicaro; Porro, Romero, Van de Ven, Udogie; Sarr, Bentancur, Maddison; Kulusevski, Solanke, Son

– 02:30 August 20: Villarreal vs Atletico Madrid (reside SCTV15)

Atletico Madrid have simply added three high quality names: Robin Le Normand, Alexander Sorloth and Julian Alvarez from Man Metropolis. In the wrong way, they let Alvaro Morata, Memphis Depay and Saul Niguez depart. It is extremely doubtless that Joao Felix would be the subsequent participant to depart.

Quite the opposite, Villarreal after a failed season nonetheless has nothing new. The “Yellow Submarine” solely recruited mediocre names similar to Pape Gueye, Sergi Cardona, or the participant as soon as thought-about the worst rookie in Arsenal’s historical past – Nicolas Pépé.

On prime of that, they misplaced quite a lot of key gamers: Alexander Sorloth went to Atletico, goalkeeper Filip Jorgensen joined Chelsea, and midfielder Ben Brereton Diaz went to Southampton. Villarreal are clearly struggling, particularly when dealing with one of many title contenders – Atletico.

Regardless of having the house benefit, Villarreal usually are not superior to Atletico. They’re even inferior to their opponents. Statistics present that Atletico are unbeaten of their final 6 matches (2 wins, 4 attracts) when visiting Villarreal.

Latest head-to-head outcomes additionally present that Atletico is healthier than Villarreal with 2 wins, 1 loss and three attracts. Due to this fact, Atletico is prone to have 3 factors on the opening day of La Liga 2024/25.

On this match, Atletico will probably be with out Oblak and Marcos Paulo because of damage. In the meantime, Villarreal will probably be with out Denis Suarez, Foyth and Alfonso Pedraza.

Anticipated lineup:

Villarreal: Diego Conde: Kiko Femenía, Albiol, Bailly, Sergi Cardona; Yeremy, Parejo, Comesaña, Denis Suárez; Terrats, Danjuma.

Atletico Madrid: Moldovan; Azpilicueta, Le Normand, Witsel, Lino; De Paul, Koke; Llorente, Griezmann, Riquelme; Sorloth.