Tonight’s game is two teams that face it embracing two verbs: react, cauterize. The bad thing about the suffocating schedule that generally dominates football today is that, every time you step on the grass, you run the risk of injury, with so much load. The good thing, that You can cauterize a burning defeat in four days. To react. AND face the two weeks of break that begins on Monday without black clouds hanging around Of course, they are both looking for the same thing. And, unless there is a tie, only one will be able to scare them away in Anoeta (follow the game live on As.com).
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Atlético arrives with a suit stained by Benfica’s 4-0 win in the Champions League y Real, with Anderlecht 1-2 in the Europa League. The Imanols’ walk this season is more irregular than, breaking the trend of all the past ones since the coach blue and white He assumed the bench with full rights (18-19) and not just a patch, they always started high and fell down. Herein It doesn’t finish starting, looking down more than up. In the lower-middle zone of the League, they have eight points and He has won only two of his ten official matches. The good news is that the last one was against Valencia, at home and with a win (3-0). Making it a trend against Atlético is the objective. Turrientes, who was counting a lot for Imanol, is left out. Also Elustondo. And Traoré and Zakharyan are long-term injured. Sucic, without minutes against Anderlecht, must take a step forward. A fundamental piece like Zubeldia returns, with rest on Thursday for this: arriving fresh against Atlético.
Lenglet and Javi Galán, to the eleven
An Atlético that lost its first game of the season in Lisbon but with a bang. And consequences. Simeone, in his tests, announces a change of eleven, with six rotations and minutes to meritorious like Galan (with good minutes and assistance to Correa in the derby) and Lenglet (who would live his first minutes as a red and white player). If there is a game in which the French central defender should play, it is this one. Without Llorente (injured for a month and also suspended for this match for his red card in the derby) y sin Le Normand, that he will not be able to return to San Sebastián, from where he joined Atlético this summer, after suffering a head injury with Tchouameni with a subdural hematoma and continuing to convalesce, the good news is Barrios. Koke and Gallagher could rest.
Up Simeone He would maintain his trident compared to last Sunday: Julián Alvarez, Sorloth and Griezmann. The last one returns to what was his home and he left behind to leave for Atlético a decade ago. He is already 33 years old and if he is there, everything at Atleti works. If not, it happens like in Lisbon, a team disoriented and stuck, without clarity, fang or football. It is Anoeta, a change where it has lost eight times (36%) but has returned without defeat in the last three. Imanol is the coach against whom the Argentine has won the most times (7) and has scored the most goals (18). Gain. That verb that they are both looking for. To react and cauterize.
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