Atletico Madrid vs Real Oviedo Predictions

• Atletico Madrid have won their last nine home games
• Real Oviedo have failed to score in their last three matches
• Atletico Madrid have kept four clean sheets in five league outings

Atletico should shut out toothless visitors

Atletico Madrid made it six straight wins in all competitions with Wednesday’s 2-1 victory at home to Inter Milan in the Champions League, with captain Jose Maria Gimenez rising highest from a corner in the final moments to land the spoils.

That means that Diego Simeone’s side have reigned supreme in their last nine matches at the Riyadh Air Metropolitano, which includes against fierce rivals Real and Villarreal, and that makes the outcome of this fixture look ominous given that Real Oviedo are rock-bottom of La Liga.

Real Oviedo have taken only nine points from 13 games, suffering eight defeats, and they have looked toothless in attack, having scored only seven times.

The visitors, now winless in seven, are without a goal in three outings and it is hard to see them snapping that run at Atletico.

Rojiblancos made it five consecutive wins in La Liga with last weekend’s hard-fought 1-0 success at Getafe and that was their fourth clean sheet in that timeframe.

Simeone’s men won 2-0 away at Oviedo when they last met in the Copa del Rey two seasons ago and it looks as if the visitors could well be heading back to the Segunda Division following last term’s promotion.