Club Atlético de Madrid 1-0 RC Deportivo La Coruña: Primera Division Match Report, 24 October 2026

Our preview of this match was written on 18 October 2026 but only went live on 1 November, after the final whistle. Its pick is reviewed below as it was written, and it is left out of our win rate and bankroll.

Club Atlético de Madrid 1-0 RC Deportivo La Coruña: goalless at half-time, one goal after it, and a result that fits how Atlético's season has run. Seven of their ten league matches have now been 0-0 at the interval, and fifteen of their twenty goals have come after it.

The table promised more distance than the match produced. Atlético kicked off second on 22 points from nine with a goal difference of plus eleven; Deportivo were ninth on 11, plus one. This was a sixth straight league win for the hosts and the fourth in a row by a single goal, after 2-1 against Real Madrid, 2-1 at Alavés and 1-0 at Espanyol. The 3-0 at Real Sociedad and 4-0 against Osasuna in mid-September have not been repeated.

Deportivo had scored in eight of their nine matches. They drew a blank at the Metropolitano, and the other one was also a 0-1, at home to Sevilla in September. Holding a match level through a half was familiar ground for a side with five draws in nine; finding a goal after the break against a defence that has conceded three at home all season was not.

No earlier meeting between the clubs is on record; Deportivo were not in the division last season.

Twenty-five points from ten, plus twelve and a fifth clean sheet: that is a quicker pace than last season, when Atlético finished fourth on 69 points, 25 behind the champions. The home record of four wins and a draw, eleven scored and three conceded, is most of the reason. The caveat is in the margins: four one-goal wins in a row describe a side collecting results, not pulling clear of opponents.

Deportivo stay on eleven points from ten, goal difference back to level, and have now gone six league matches without a win, three draws and three defeats since the 3-2 at Villarreal on 5 September. Even so, eleven points from a quarter of the season is a respectable return for a promoted club, and a one-goal defeat away at the side second in the table does not change that.

Our preview's call was Club Atlético de Madrid Win at 1.38. High confidence rested on five straight wins, an unbeaten home record and a Deportivo side that had stopped winning.

The home record is the part that stood up. Deportivo, who had scored in eight of nine, were held to nothing, so the preview's main worry, an early Deportivo goal, never arose. What the match did not show was the control that a price as short as 1.38 assumes: goalless at half-time and settled by one goal, it left the draw the preview had warned about in play for at least 45 minutes. The narrow margins the preview noticed, from 4-0 and 3-0 down to 2-1 and 1-0, held for one more match.

Verdict: not counted. The pick would have won, but the preview only went live after kick-off.