Counter-Attacking Masterclass: Madrid Edges Clásico Thriller
The away side absorbed sustained possession and delivered two lethal counter-attacks to secure a decisive 2–1 rivalry victory.
Ludistat
Levante 0–2 Atletico Madrid
- Season
- La Liga
- 2026 · Regular Season - 11
Referee
Ricardo De Burgos Bengoetxea
La Liga: Atletico Madrid beat Levante 2–0. Goals: Alejandro Grimaldo 36', Giuliano Simeone Baldini 62'.
Top rated
The provider's match ratings, out of 10.
Oriol Rey7.2
P. Ratkov6.9
Ifeanyi Ndukwe6.8
J. Oblak8.1
G. Simeone7.8
Álex Grimaldo7.8
How the score moved
The running score, step by step, with every score marked.
- Levante
- Atletico Madrid
Show as a table
| When | Levante | Atletico Madrid |
|---|---|---|
| 36′ · Alejandro Grimaldo | 0 | 1 |
| 62′ · Giuliano Simeone Baldini | 0 | 2 |
| 90′ | 0 | 2 |
Chances and finishing
Expected goals (xG) weigh every shot by how often a chance like it is scored. Set against the goals, they show who made the better chances and who took them.
- Levante
- Atletico Madrid
LevanteGoals0xG1.33
- xG per shot
- 0.07
- Goals minus xG
- -1.33
Atletico MadridGoals2xG0.63
- xG per shot
- 0.06
- Goals minus xG
- +1.37
How the chances split
Levante win 54%Draw 29%Atletico Madrid win 18%
Each side's xG treated as the average of a Poisson distribution of goals: how often this match ends each way if its chances were played out again and again.
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| Levante | Atletico Madrid | |
|---|---|---|
| Goals | 0 | 2 |
| Expected goals (xG) | 1.33 | 0.63 |
| xG per shot | 0.067 | 0.057 |
| Goals minus xG | -1.33 | +1.37 |
| Levante win | 54% | |
| Draw | 29% | |
| Atletico Madrid win | 18% |
Goals & cards
- Luís Manuel Ferreira de CastroDissent18′
- 36′
- 62′Giuliano Simeone BaldiniAssist: Alejandro Baena Rodríguez
Key stats
- 46%Ball Possession54%
- 1.33Expected goals0.63
- 20Total Shots11
- 4Shots on goal5
- 5Corner Kicks3
Half by half
- Levante
- Atletico Madrid
| Team | 1H | 2H | T |
|---|---|---|---|
| Levante | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Atletico Madrid | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Facts
From each side's recent results and their meetings, before this match.
- Levante: 1 won, 2 drawn, 2 lost in their last 5 matches.
- Levante have scored in each of their last 5 matches.
- Levante scored 9 and conceded 10 in their last 5 matches.
- Atletico Madrid: 4 won, 1 drawn, 0 lost in their last 5 matches.
- Atletico Madrid have scored in each of their last 5 matches.
- Atletico Madrid kept 3 clean sheets in their last 5 matches.
- Atletico Madrid scored 7 and conceded 2 in their last 5 matches.
Recent form
Standings
Primera División
| POS | Team | GP | W | D | L | PTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Barcelona | 11 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 30 |
| 2 |  Real Madrid | 12 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 30 |
| 3 | Atletico Madrid | 11 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 28 |
| 4 |  Real Betis | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 23 |
| 5 |  Real Sociedad | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 19 |
| 16 |  Osasuna | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 12 |
| 17 |  Elche | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 10 |
| 18 | Levante | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 10 |
| 19 |  Valencia | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 9 |
| 20 |  Malaga | 12 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 5 |
Timeline
- 17′Morten Hjulmand(VAR)Goal cancelled
- Luís Manuel Ferreira de CastroDissent18′
- 36′
- 62′Giuliano Simeone BaldiniAssist: Alejandro Baena Rodríguez
- 67′Off: Lee Kang-InOn: Jonathan David
- 67′Off: Julián ÁlvarezOn: Alexander Sørloth
- Off: Karl Etta EyongOn: Víctor García71′
- Off: Daniel Requena SánchezOn: Petar Ratkov71′
- Off: Thiago Cruz FernandezOn: Oriol Rey71′
- Off: Jeremy ToljanOn: Adrián de la Fuente Barquilla71′
- 76′Off: Pablo Barrios RivasOn: Robin Le Normand
- 76′Off: Alejandro Baena RodríguezOn: Ademola Lookman
- Off: Nacho Pérez GómezOn: Marc Santos Gavilán81′
- 17′
Chances and finishing
Expected goals (xG) weigh every shot by how often a chance like it is scored. Set against the goals, they show who made the better chances and who took them.
- Levante
- Atletico Madrid
LevanteGoals0xG1.33
- xG per shot
- 0.07
- Goals minus xG
- -1.33
Atletico MadridGoals2xG0.63
- xG per shot
- 0.06
- Goals minus xG
- +1.37
How the chances split
Levante win 54%Draw 29%Atletico Madrid win 18%
Each side's xG treated as the average of a Poisson distribution of goals: how often this match ends each way if its chances were played out again and again.
Show as a table
| Levante | Atletico Madrid | |
|---|---|---|
| Goals | 0 | 2 |
| Expected goals (xG) | 1.33 | 0.63 |
| xG per shot | 0.067 | 0.057 |
| Goals minus xG | -1.33 | +1.37 |
| Levante win | 54% | |
| Draw | 29% | |
| Atletico Madrid win | 18% |
Every shot, and how it ended
Goals, shots the keeper saved, shots off target and shots blocked before they reached goal — then where they were taken from.
- Goals
- Saved
- Off target
- Blocked
Levante20 shots488
Atletico Madrid11 shots2333
- 143Inside the box
- 68Outside the box
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| Levante | Atletico Madrid | |
|---|---|---|
| Goals | 0 | 2 |
| Saved | 4 | 3 |
| Off target | 8 | 3 |
| Blocked | 8 | 3 |
| Inside the box | 14 | 3 |
| Outside the box | 6 | 8 |
The ball: possession and passing
Who had it, how often they moved it, and how many of those passes found a teammate.
- Levante
- Atletico Madrid
46%Possession54%
86%387 of 450 passes88%494 of 560 passes
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| Levante | Atletico Madrid | |
|---|---|---|
| Possession | 46% | 54% |
| Passes | 450 | 560 |
| Completed | 387 | 494 |
| Pass accuracy | 86% | 88% |
Discipline
Fouls, cards and offsides, and when each card was shown.
- 77Fouls
- 00Yellow cards
- 00Red cards
- 15Offsides
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| Levante | Atletico Madrid | |
|---|---|---|
| Fouls | 7 | 7 |
| Yellow cards | 0 | 0 |
| Red cards | 0 | 0 |
| Offsides | 1 | 5 |
Every player's rating
The provider's match ratings out of ten, one dot per player who featured. Point at a dot for the name.
- Levante
- Atletico Madrid
Show as a table
| Player | Team | Rating | Min |
|---|---|---|---|
| J. Oblak | Atletico Madrid | 8.1 | 90 |
| G. Simeone | Atletico Madrid | 7.8 | 90 |
| Álex Grimaldo | Atletico Madrid | 7.8 | 90 |
| Álex Baena | Atletico Madrid | 7.7 | 76 |
| Marcos Llorente | Atletico Madrid | 7.4 | 90 |
| Oriol Rey | Levante | 7.2 | 19 |
| Marc Pubill | Atletico Madrid | 7.1 | 90 |
| P. Ratkov | Levante | 6.9 | 19 |
| D. Hancko | Atletico Madrid | 6.9 | 90 |
| Pablo Barrios | Atletico Madrid | 6.8 | 76 |
| Ifeanyi Ndukwe | Levante | 6.8 | 90 |
| A. Mandi | Levante | 6.8 | 90 |
| Jon Ander Olasagasti | Levante | 6.7 | 90 |
| M. Hjulmand | Atletico Madrid | 6.7 | 90 |
| Reque | Levante | 6.6 | 71 |
| J. David | Atletico Madrid | 6.5 | 23 |
| Robin Le Normand | Atletico Madrid | 6.5 | 14 |
| Iván Romero | Levante | 6.5 | 90 |
| J. Toljan | Levante | 6.5 | 71 |
| A. Sørloth | Atletico Madrid | 6.4 | 23 |
| M. Santos | Levante | 6.4 | 9 |
| J. Álvarez | Atletico Madrid | 6.4 | 67 |
| M. Ryan | Levante | 6.3 | 90 |
| Lee Kang-In | Atletico Madrid | 6.3 | 67 |
| A. Lookman | Atletico Madrid | 6.2 | 14 |
| Brugui | Levante | 6.2 | 90 |
| T. Fernández | Levante | 6.2 | 71 |
| Víctor García | Levante | 6.1 | 19 |
| Nacho Pérez | Levante | 6.0 | 81 |
| Etta Eyong | Levante | 5.9 | 71 |
| Dela | Levante | 5.8 | 19 |
The goalkeepers
Saves against shots on target faced; goals prevented is the provider's measure of goals saved beyond what the shots' quality predicted.
60%
M. Ryan
M. Ryan- Saves
- 3
- Conceded
- 2
- Rating
- 6.3
100%J. Oblak
J. Oblak- Saves
- 4
- Conceded
- 0
- Rating
- 8.1
- Levante
- Atletico Madrid
Top stats
- 46%Ball Possession54%
- 1.33Expected goals0.63
- 20Total Shots11
- 4Shots on goal5
- 5Corner Kicks3
Shots
- 8Shots off Goal3
- 8Blocked shots3
- 14Shots insidebox3
- 6Shots outsidebox8
Passing
- 450Total passes560
- 387Passes accurate494
- 86%Pass accuracy88%
Defence & set pieces
- 3Goalkeeper Saves4
- 6Free Kicks7
- 1Offsides5
Discipline
- 7Fouls7
- 0Yellow Cards0
- 0Red Cards0
Half by half
- Levante
- Atletico Madrid
| Team | 1H | 2H | T |
|---|---|---|---|
| Levante | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Atletico Madrid | 1 | 1 | 2 |
136.3M. Ryan
66.6Reque
86.7Jon Ander Olasagasti
215.9Etta Eyong
196.4J. Álvarez
76.3Lee Kang-In
138.1J. OblakLevante4-2-3-1Atletico Madrid4-4-2Levante4-2-3-1Coach: Luís Castro
Bench
27Paco CortésF
14Jorge CabelloD
1Pablo CuñatG
4DelaD
17Víctor GarcíaD
11Yanis MusuayiF
10P. RatkovF
20Oriol ReyM
33M. SantosD
5Hugo SoteloM
16A. TapeD
34M. Usedo DomingoM
Atletico Madrid4-4-2Coach: D. Simeone
Bench
| 27Paco CortésF | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7BruguiM | 90 | 6.2 | 4 | 2 | 20 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 21Etta EyongF | 71 | 5.9 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 24T. FernándezM | 71 | 6.2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2A. MandiD | 90 | 6.8 | 0 | 0 | 68 | 1 | 65 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3Ifeanyi NdukweD | 90 | 6.8 | 1 | 0 | 55 | 0 | 51 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 8Jon Ander OlasagastiM | 90 | 6.7 | 3 | 0 | 59 | 1 | 52 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 29Nacho PérezD | 81 | 6.0 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6RequeM | 71 | 6.6 | 2 | 1 | 26 | 0 | 25 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9Iván RomeroM | 90 | 6.5 | 1 | 1 | 33 | 1 | 26 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 22J. ToljanD | 71 | 6.5 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 2 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 14Jorge CabelloD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13M. RyanG | 90 | 6.3 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1Pablo CuñatG | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4DelaD | 19 | 5.8 | 2 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 17Víctor GarcíaD | 19 | 6.1 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 2 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11Yanis MusuayiF | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10P. RatkovF | 19 | 6.9 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 20Oriol ReyM | 19 | 7.2 | 1 | 0 | 33 | 0 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 33M. SantosD | 9 | 6.4 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5Hugo SoteloM | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 16A. TapeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 34M. Usedo DomingoM | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Primera División
| POS | Team | GP | W | D | L | PTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Barcelona | 11 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 30 |
| 2 | Real Madrid | 12 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 30 |
| 3 | Atletico Madrid | 11 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 28 |
| 4 | Real Betis | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 23 |
| 5 | Real Sociedad | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 19 |
| 6 |  Sevilla | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 18 |
| 7 |  Athletic Club | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 16 |
| 8 |  Deportivo La Coruna | 12 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 15 |
| 9 |  Racing Santander | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 14 |
| 10 |  Alaves | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 13 |
| 11 |  Villarreal | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 12 |
| 12 |  Celta Vigo | 11 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 12 |
| 13 |  Espanyol | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 12 |
| 14 |  Rayo Vallecano | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 12 |
| 15 |  Getafe | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 12 |
| 16 | Osasuna | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 12 |
| 17 | Elche | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 10 |
| 18 | Levante | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 10 |
| 19 | Valencia | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 9 |
| 20 | Malaga | 12 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 5 |