Coach Zinedine Zidane is without Gareth Bale, but as Marco Asensio and Isco remain in good form, Bale's absence shouldn't be noticed. Atletico have injury worries at right back and over the influential Yannick Carrasco.

The visitors look to keep things tight and hope the pace of Antoine Griezmann and Kevin Gameiro to give them an away goal, while Real will probably think that if they can keep a clean sheet they will have the edge for the return leg in the Vicente Calderon a week later.

Europa League is very expensive this season

Villarreal, Athletic Club Bilbao and Real Sociedad are currently dueling it out for fifth and sixth place and qualification for next season's Europa League, however booking a ticket for Europe this season is more expensive than ever.

All three teams have won their last three matches to leave them with 63, 62 and 61 points respectively with three games left to play.

Bear in mind that last season Villarreal finished fourth in the table to book a Champions League spot with 64 points and that Athletic finished fifth with 62, the same as they have now. It shows just how hard this season has become and the team that eventually finishes seventh can count themselves very unlucky indeed, although they would also qualify if Barcelona defeat Alaves in the Cup final.

It's not looking good for Sporting Gijon

The battle to avoid relegation this season has sometimes more resembled a race between snails as all of the sides in the danger zone have struggled to gain points. Osasuna and Granada are already relegated with 19 and 20 points respectively from 35 matches, while third from bottom Sporting Gijon have just 24 points from the same number of games.

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