LaLiga | Cádiz-Atlético de Madrid Preview: Time to take off (18:30)

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Simeone comes out in defense of his players: “It’s not an attitude problem”

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15 HOURS AGO

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Referee: Gil Manzano (C. Extremeño).

Stadium: New Mirandilla.

Hour: 18.30

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• Cádiz have not won in their last 12 matches against Atlético de Madrid in LaLiga (4E 8D), their longest winless streak against the rojiblancos in the competition, since a 2-0 victory in March 1989.
• After winning their first four home matches in LaLiga against Atlético de Madrid, between 1978 and 1985, Cádiz has only won one of their last nine home matches against Madrid in the competition (4E 4D).
• Atlético de Madrid have only lost in five of their 37 visits to Andalusian teams in LaLiga since the arrival of Diego Pablo Simeone to his bench (20W 12E) after having lost in 17 of their previous 37 (10W 10E).
• This is the fourth season in which Cádiz achieved only two or fewer victories after their first 14 games in LaLiga (2V 6E 6D) after doing it in 1983/84 (2V 4E 8D), 1990/91 (1V 5E 8D) and the 1992/93 (2V 6E 6D) – dropped in two of the previous three (the exception was 1990/91).
• After four consecutive away victories in LaLiga between May and September, Atlético de Madrid have not won in their last three trips in the competition (2E 1D) – they have conceded goals in seven straight league games away from home for the first time since 2010 ( 17).
• Atlético de Madrid is the LaLiga team that has scored the most points with goals in the last quarter of an hour of the game this season (10).
• Cádiz is one of the four teams that has not scored a goal from outside the area this season, along with Getafe, Alavés and Levante – the Cádiz team has only scored two goals from outside the area in the highest category in the 21st century, both in 2006.
• Atlético de Madrid’s last two goals in LaLiga have been scored by defenders (Vrsaljo v Valencia and Felipe v Osasuna), as many as in their previous 59 goals in the competition (not counting own goals).
• The Cádiz player, Álvaro Negredo, has participated in six goals in his last five home games in LaLiga against Atlético de Madrid (five goals and one assist), including two doubles, one of them in his only match at the Nuevo Mirandilla with Cádiz against the rojiblancos.
• Atlético de Madrid player Luis Suárez has scored in his two LaLiga games against Cádiz (three goals in total), including a double on his only visit to Nuevo Mirandilla in the competition.