This promises to be an action-packed encounter for Atalanta at Gewiss Stadium when the Champions League tournament arrives in town and Villarreal with it. Read all about the Group Stage match here!
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Atalanta and Villarreal.
It's quite the trip for Villarreal when visiting Atalanta as the cities are 1300 kilometers apart.
Atalanta form and stats
Atalanta participated in Champions League the last season, where they reached the 8th finals and lost against Real Madrid.All-inclusive Serie A statistics at home this season for Atalanta are 3-3-2 (wins-draws-losses). 1W-3D-1L is the hard facts regardless of venue in the Champions League for Atalanta. The team is able to perform also as the away side, as they are nurturing a very healthy winning streak of five straight victories regardless of arena.
Atalanta enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Napoli's place. The match ended 3-2 with Remo Freuler, Merih Demiral and Ruslan Malinovskyi scoring. The attacking player Ruslan Malinovskyi won the honour of being "man of the match" for Atalanta with the rating of 7.82/10. Malinovskyi scored one goal, hit three key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
Before that game, the 4-0 home victory against Venezia.The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Atalanta handle that role? We have found five games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are two wins, two draws and one defeat.
Atalanta are traveling soon after this match as the Serie A match at Hellas Verona awaits in four days.
The Atalanta manager G. Gasperini has got the team scoring with 17 from 8 home games in the league. Atalanta's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 11 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Villarreal form and stats
Nothing but glory last season for Villarreal, as they won the Champions League.The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Villarreal so far with only 5 points returning home. The records show 0-5-3 (win-draw-lose). When we have look at the Champions League statistics, we find 2W-1D-2L. This is both home and away.
It might be tough going out on the road again for Villarreal, facing their second straight away game. Especially as the previous game, ended with a defeat 0-1 versus Sevilla. Raúl Albiol, who plays in defense, got the "man of the match" on his team with the rating 7.44. Albiol hit one key pass and won 4 of 7 duels.
Preceding that game was the away Copa Del Rey victory against Victoria CF with the score of 8-0.Villarreal are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is zero wins, one draw and one defeat. From a total of two matches.
After this away game Villarreal return home for a La Liga game against Rayo Vallecano. That game is only four sleeps after this.
Villarreal are seemingly not capable of scoring regularly on their travels in the league. They have only managed 4 goals from 8 away games. As opposed to that, Villarreal have seen the ball go into their own net 8 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
Villarreal - Atalanta 2-2 was the scoreline in these contenders' last head-to-head fixture, earlier this season.Top Goalscorers
  D. Zapata Banguera 9 goals |  M. Pašalić 7 goals |   A. Groeneveld 5 goals |
Atalanta missing players
Villarreal missing players
| Atalanta | Villarreal | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 15 | 25 | ||
| 13 | 6 | Won | W | 2 | 6 | ||
| 7 | 4 | Drew | D | 7 | 10 | ||
| 5 | 2 | Lost | L | 6 | 9 | ||
| 55 | 29 | Scored | S | 24 | 40 | ||
| 36 | 15 | Conceded | C | 20 | 33 | ||
| 96% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 80% | 84% | ||
| 84% | 83% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 73% | 76% | ||
| 76% | 75% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 53% | 52% | ||
| 56% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 40% | 40% | ||
| 28% | 25% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 27% | 24% | ||
| 76% | 75% | BTTS | BTTS | 60% | 56% | ||
| 20% | 25% | Clean Sheets | C S | 27% | 32% | ||
| 8% | 8% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 28% | ||
| 5.3 | 5.8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.5 | 5.2 | ||
| 4.2 | 3.4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.3 | 5.4 | ||
| 2 | 1.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.2 | 2.2 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | ||
| 14.4 | 14.9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12.5 | 12.7 | ||
| 5 | 5.6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.4 | 4.7 | ||
| 44% | 43% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 35% | 33% | ||
| 10.5 | 7.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 13.1 | 11.5 | ||
| 3.9 | 3.1 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.2 | 3.8 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Manchester United | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 10 |
| 2 | Villarreal | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 7 |
| 3 | Atalanta | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 0 | 6 |
| 4 | Young Boys | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | -5 | 4 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Milan | 16 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 35 | 18 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 11 | 17 | 38 |
| 2 | Inter | 16 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 39 | 15 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 20 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 9 | 24 | 37 |
| 3 | Napoli | 16 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 34 | 12 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 7 | 22 | 36 |
| 4 | Atalanta | 16 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 35 | 19 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 17 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 18 | 8 | 16 | 34 |
| 5 | Roma | 16 | 8 | 1 | 7 | 24 | 19 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 14 | 12 | 5 | 25 |
| 6 | Fiorentina | 15 | 8 | 0 | 7 | 24 | 20 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 24 |
| 7 | Juventus | 15 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 20 | 16 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 24 |
| 8 | Bologna | 15 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 21 | 24 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 15 | -3 | 24 |
| 9 | Lazio | 15 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 29 | 29 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 22 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 17 | 0 | 22 |
| 10 | Hellas Verona | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 28 | 25 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 18 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 14 | 3 | 20 |
| 11 | Empoli | 15 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 23 | 28 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 19 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 9 | -5 | 20 |
| 12 | Sassuolo | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 24 | 23 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 13 | 1 | 19 |
| 13 | Torino | 15 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 19 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 18 |
| 14 | Udinese | 15 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 20 | 24 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 13 | -4 | 16 |
| 15 | Sampdoria | 15 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 21 | 29 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 17 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 12 | -8 | 15 |
| 16 | Venezia | 15 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 25 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 16 | -13 | 15 |
| 17 | Spezia | 15 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 15 | 34 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 25 | -19 | 11 |
| 18 | Genoa | 15 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 17 | 29 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 14 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 15 | -12 | 10 |
| 19 | Cagliari | 15 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 16 | 29 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 14 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 15 | -13 | 9 |
| 20 | Salernitana | 16 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 11 | 33 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 16 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 17 | -22 | 8 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Real Madrid | 16 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 37 | 15 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 5 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 10 | 22 | 39 |
| 2 | Sevilla | 15 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 25 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 18 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 14 | 31 |
| 3 | Real Betis | 16 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 26 | 18 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 8 | 30 |
| 4 | Atlético Madrid | 15 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 27 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 10 | 11 | 29 |
| 5 | Real Sociedad | 16 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 19 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 10 | 6 | 29 |
| 6 | Rayo Vallecano | 15 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 23 | 16 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 13 | 7 | 24 |
| 7 | FC Barcelona | 15 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 23 | 17 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 23 |
| 8 | Athletic Club | 15 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 13 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 20 |
| 9 | Espanyol | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 14 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 20 |
| 10 | Osasuna | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 19 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 8 | -4 | 20 |
| 11 | Valencia | 15 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 22 | 21 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 14 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 1 | 19 |
| 12 | Mallorca | 16 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 16 | 23 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 16 | -7 | 19 |
| 13 | Villarreal | 15 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 16 | 17 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 8 | -1 | 16 |
| 14 | Celta de Vigo | 15 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 16 | 19 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 7 | -3 | 16 |
| 15 | Granada | 15 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 16 | 23 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 11 | -7 | 15 |
| 16 | Deportivo Alaves | 15 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 12 | 21 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 10 | -9 | 14 |
| 17 | Elche | 15 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 21 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 12 | -9 | 12 |
| 18 | Cadiz | 15 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 13 | 27 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 14 | -14 | 12 |
| 19 | Getafe | 15 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 19 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 10 | -9 | 10 |
| 20 | Levante | 15 | 0 | 7 | 8 | 13 | 28 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 17 | -15 | 7 |