Football Bet of the Day: Atletico Madrid to get there in the end

Celta Vigo v Atletico Madrid
Sunday 15:15 (Live on Sky Sports Football)

At the time of writing, yesterday's bet is still a live one. For the final flourish of a decent week, we're off to Spain to place a bet at much bigger odds than we'd normally dabble in.

Atletico Madrid travel to Celta Vigo as one of La Liga's three unbeaten outfits. A win would lift Diego Simeone's men above city rivals Real and into third place. We fancy they can get the result they want, but that it might be a while coming.

Atletico have won 8/10 head-to-heads with Celta, including 4/5 at Balaidos, and are unbeaten on their travels in 2017 (W8-D8-L0). There's a high proportion of draws in those 16 matches, but happy memories of Balaidos allied to Celta's poor record against La Liga's top teams can get them over the line this afternoon.

Celta lost 3-2 hosting Real Sociedad on the opening day of the season, and haven't hosted another team now in the top half since. Last term, they went W2-D2-L6 hosting the teams that eventually finished top 10, losing 4/5 to the top five.

And why might it take Atletico a while to break down their hosts? Each of the last five head-to-heads in Vigo have been goalless at the break. More widely, Simeone's Atletico have an unusual half-time record of drawing more than half of their away games (55/100). In matches they've gone onto win, they're a remarkable W25-D28-L2 at the break. At a big price, we're backing them to come on strong in the second half once more today.

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