The hosts led by Diego Simeone occupy the 6th place in the Primera Division with a total of 5 decks won by a victory and 2 draws (5-1 with Las Palmas, 2-2 with Girona and 0-0 with Valencia ). This is 4 laps after the top two, FC Barcelona and Real Sociedad. In order not to lose contact with the front seats Atletico is not allowed to not get all three points on his own ground against a modest band in this championship edition, like Malaga. Also, especially if in the perspective of this challange “Cholo” Simeone will have the whole lot at your disposal!

On the other hand, Malaga started extremely poorly this La Liga edition. It was defeated in the first three non-appealing rounds of bands whose value is at least as close as Eibar, Girona and Las Palmas. Thus, the morale of the players is one of extremely low odds, adding to the list of “problems” in the “white-blue” camp that can not be based on a number of exponential players such as Jony, Juanpi, Penaranda Torres, with everyone being injured.

Looking over the direct results we can notice that Atletico Madrid defeated Malaga in the last three direct disputes. Taking into account both this trend and all of the above, we have no way of seeing Simeone’s band as the main favorite.