João Félix is back. The Portuguese forward joined the Atlético squad after a full week of training with the group and It will be an offensive weapon for Simeone in the match against Mallorca, a priori starting from the bench, and also ahead of the fundamental match against Porto, a team he knows well.
The Portuguese suffered “a post-traumatic muscle injury with myofascial edema in the inner twin” during a preparatory training for the match against Osasuna, once his commitments with the national team had ended, and he missed the match against the Navarrese, against Milan in the Champions League and at the Nueva Mirandilla Stadium. Three dates in which Trippier could not be there either due to the shoulder injury suffered at the start of the match at Mestalla against Valencia and from which he is already very close to receiving a medical discharge after several days working with the group, but precaution prevails and does not enter the list.
A call to which Lodi returns after overcoming a low back pain and from which Giménez falls, due to an overload that made him abandon the match against Cádiz in the first half, and Carrasco, who has had discomfort since that match and the coaching staff has preferred to be cautious with the Belgian. The winger, one of Atlético’s best players this season, has been working on the sidelines all week. Yes Lemar arrives, who also started with workloads, but has participated in the last sessions as one more. Saponjic is the other absence from the team due to injury.
Simeone knows that it is essential to defeat Mallorca, although he also looks askance at Porto and that fundamental match on Tuesday to continue in the Champions League, which is why They did not want to risk with the headgear and for which players like Suárez and Lemar can start from the bench. Before the Balearic team, everything indicates that it will arrive Cunha’s first start with Atlético after his great minutes in Cádiz, with goal and assist included. The central Ibraima reinforces the list of 19 footballers. Simeone’s eleven could be made up of Oblak, Llorente as right-back, Savic, Felipe, Lodi, Kondogbia, De Paul, Koke, Correa, Griezmann and Cunha.