According to the bookies, Atletico Madrid is the favorite to win their next game against Espanyol, but I do not believe they will have an easy win. According to H2H, Espanyol has a winning record against Atletico Madrid, this season, as well, Atletico Madrid failed to win the first leg at home despite having the advantage of scoring a lot of goals. Atletico Madrid has won two and drew three of their previous five meetings. It was very surprising because they should be able to beat Espanyol with lots of goals in the first meeting.
Atletico Madrid must give their best to defeat Espanyol in an away game next week or their opportunities of winning the league would be lost. However, I don't think I can bet on Atletico Madrid to win Espanyol in an away game after they failed to score a single goal in the first meeting at home. It's best to avoid the game because Atletico's recent form has been unpredictable.
H2H never tells the whole story. When you look at H2H, you will see last year, and if you look even more games, you can see the year before that, in 2023 and all that. So that doesn't talk about how the teams are today, and doesn't make sense.
Atletico Madrid is by far the better team and they should be getting the win easily, anything other than an easy win, is a mistake and they shouldn't be really doing anything that prevents this. I get that betting exists because there is always a chance that they can't always win their games, and we have seen them lose before recently so that means the possibility is definitely out there. But we do not bet on the off-chance, or maybe some people do but I don't do that normally.