Atletico Madrid are never an easy opponent for Real Madrid in La Liga and Champions League. It is classic of any derby in football, even you are a stronger team, you might fail in a derby match. Atletico Madrid in this season are not weak by showing their quality, strength and competitiveness in both La Liga and Champions League. They lead Real Madrid in La Liga and are ready to beat Real Madrid in Champions League as well.
Atletico are a tougher opponent now, you can even see it in the way they continue to stay close to Barcelona in La Liga, while Real have problems with their defense, which is not always able to play well. And Atletico's attack looks much better now, they have great forwards, so maybe Real remains the favorite, but not by a very large margin. Real's attack is also very good, and Atletico will have to rely on their defense.
No team is in favor to win the game. Real Madrid looks stronger after Mbappe successfully bounding to the club, but Atletico is also equal to them at this moment.
Seeing the odds movement reflected by both of clubs. It's obvious Madrid has greater chance to secure the first leg, but the gap is not that big. They're getting 1.95 compared to the 4.35 owned by Atletico.
I won't bet on neither of them, but take BTTS as my bet in this game. I think both of clubs will score.
This game is not just going to be fascinating but also fierce because in as much as it is a uefa champions league game, it's also a derby game, and we all know how derbies usually looks like, so they would be playing for the three point and also the bragging rights.
As for who might carry the day, that's what I think that we share in common, I don't really know because it's not an easy game to predict, I believe that the 1.95 odds given to real madrid is just flattery, due to their record in the competition, but as we all know, no team in the whole of the uefa champions league that would be happy facing atletico madrid side now that they are in serious form, so I am positive that it might end in as score draw like 1-1 or 2-2 draw.
On the aspect of which of them that can make it to the next round of the competition, that's what I can't predict for now, but I would be supporting atletico madrid to make it to the next round of the competition.