Atletico Madrid seeks his first two-legged victory over their main rivals in Europe when they meet in the 16-year Champions League circle.
Athlets came so close to triumph on their maiden continental meeting with Real MadridDrawing its 1958/59 European Cup semi-finals in the playoffs, but Los Blancos won the decisive 2-1 node on the way to the European title of 15 of 15.
It’s been a while since Diego Simeone got into the last stages of the Champions League reached the 2014 and 2016 finals (before he lost to Real Madrid). There is a scope for the title of the title in La Liga who will enjoy deep running after an impressive league phase this time, but they have to get the most famous enemies for the first time in the last 16.
Here’s how Athletes He could line up his first leg on Tuesday in Bernabeu.
GK: Jan Oblak – Longtime athlete goalkeeper is the only player in Simeone’s team to play every minute in the competition to this season. This will not change in the knockout stage.
RB: Marcos Llorente – Llorente had a huge impact on a bench against an athletic club on weekends, which with an excellent aisle raised the only goal of the game.
CB: Jose Gimenez – Gimenez is the second who got off the bench on Saturday and is ready to return to the initial XI in the middle of the week.
CB: Robin Le Normand – Clement Lenglet’s wonderful return La Liga This season, but athlete has signed Le Normand to play on those occasions.
LB: Javi Galan – Experienced full back did not appear in Champions League Before joining Atletico, and now he has established himself as Simeone’s left back.
RM: Giuliano Simeone – Neotismism is certainly not the reason why Giuliano begins a consistently down Atletic right. The son of El Chola is an exciting perspective that enjoys the breakthrough this season.
Cm: Rodrigo de Paul – No athlet Outfielder has collected more minutes of the Champions League than De Paul this season (574). He is absolutely imperative in Simeone’s diligent engine room.
Cm: Pablo Barrios – The growing midfielder had several disciplinary problems in the middle of an otherwise impressive season, and the manager will certainly not keep in mind that Barrios is testing officials over these two legs. And he is a cultivated ball player.
LM: Conor Gallagher – It is a throwing between the summer arrival of Gallagher and Samuel Lino for an initial role on the left. Simeone may prefer Gallagher’s dog over Lin’s two -way threat in the night like this.
ST: Antoine Griezmann – Griezmann is so often a man that produces little magic from nothing, and the master French enjoyed another starry season in the capital.
ST: Julian Alvarez – After it took a while to settle, there was no stopping of Alvarez in the red -late -late -late. Argentine scored six times in the league phase and was the winner of the match from the bench in La Liga on weekends.
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