Barcelona vs Atletico Madrid Predictions, Lineups & Betting Tips

Barcelona vs Atletico Madrid Predictions, Lineups & Betting Tips

Barcelona meet Atletico Madrid in a heavyweight bout at the top end of the La Liga table on Tuesday evening.

The Catalans are top of the table but could move down to second if Real Madrid beat Girona on Sunday. They have won their last four league games and beat Alaves 3-1 on Saturday to give them 34 points from 14 matches.

Atletico are in very good domestic form right now having won all of their last five, and are three points behind Barcelona. Their record is nine wins, four draws and one defeat.

We're predicting a Barcelona win.

Predicted Lineups

**Barcelona:**J. Garcia, Araujo, Cubarsi, Kounde, Balde, E. Garcia, De Jong, Olmo, Rashford, Yamal, Lewandowski

Gavi, Pedri and Ter Stegen are injured.

Atletico: Oblak, Gimenez, Hancko, Lenglet, Gonzalez, Molina, Koke, Gallagher, Baena, Griezmann, Alvarez

Marcos Llorente and Robin Le Normand are out.

Recent Matches Analysis

Barcelona Last Five:

Barcelona 3-1 Alaves

Chelsea 3-0 Barcelona (Champions League)

Barcelona 4-0 Bilbao

Celta 2-4 Barcelona

Brugge 3-3 Barcelona (Champions League)

Barcelona have been perfectly in the league recently, however they have suffered a big defeat to Chelsea and an underwhelming draw to Club Brugge in Europe.

Atletico Last Five:

Atletico 2-1 Inter (Champions League)

Getafe 0-1 Atletico

Atletico 3-1 Levante

Atletico 3-1 Union Saint-Gilloise (Champions League)

Atletico 3-0 Sevilla

Atletico Madrid arein exceptional form and haven't failed to win a game since they were well beaten 4-0 against Arsenal on 21 October.

Head-to-Head Record

25 Feb 2025 // Barcelona 4-4 Atletico Madrid

21 Dec 2024 // Barcelona 1-2 Atletico Madrid

03 Dec 2023 // Barcelona 1-0 Atletico Madrid

23 Apr 2023 // Barcelona 1-0 Atletico Madrid

06 Feb 2022 // Barcelona 4-2 Atletico Madrid

08 May 2021 // Barcelona 0-0 Atletico Madrid

30 Jun 2020 // Barcelona 2-2 Atletico Madrid

09 Jan 2020 // Barcelona 2-3 Atletico Madrid

06 Apr 2019 // Barcelona 2-0 Atletico Madrid

04 Mar 2018 // Barcelona 1-0 Atletico Madrid

Barcelona have the home head-to-head advantage at 5-2, although they haven't won the last two encounters.

Barcelona vs Atletico Madrid Predictions

Our advanced algorithm has analysed over 200 pieces of data and predicted with 53% confidence that the hosts will win. The model factors that have helped this are players available, current form, previous head-to-head matches and tactical matchups.

Best Betting Tips

Football Park's Best Bet: Barca to win @ 1.80 - Our team of in-house betting tipsters have predicted Barcelona to win, based on their head-to-head advantage.

Alternate Bet: Atletico to win @ 3.70 - Diego Simeone's knack at getting big results against big opponents could come into play once more, and these would be great odds for it.

Key Players to Watch

Lamine Yamal (Barcelona) has seven assists and a further five goals in 10 La Liga games this season, plus three more goal contributions in the Champions League.

Julian Alvarez (Atletico) has seven goals in the league, and leads their expected goals tally.

Match Information

2 December 2025 // KO 20:00 UK Time

The game will be shown live on Premier Sports.

It takes place at Camp Nou, which has a capacity of 99,000.