Simeone recovers Carrasco and Trippier, who return to the squad list. The Belgian returns after his long injury, while the Englishman has already ended the penalty for his involvement in gambling. Of course, Simeone will not have homegrown players at his disposal. On the other hand, he loses Herrera due to a personal problem.
Everything indicates that Llorente and Suárez will be the references above, but there are doubts between Saúl, Correa, Lemar and a João Félix who, a priori, seems to be a substitute. Although it is not ruled out that it starts.
Possible alignment of Simeone at Atlético-Real Madrid
Simeone trusts his own and, in the absence of possible changes, will go out with these men: Oblak, Savic, Felipe, Trippier, Hermoso, Koke, Saúl, Correa, Carrasco, Llorente and Suárez. An eleven that, as mentioned before, can suffer up to several changes such as the appearances of Correa, Lemar and João. The truth is that the Argentine coach has been rotating a lot and it is becoming more and more difficult to predict the eleven.
Possible alignment of Zinedine Zidane at Atlético-Real Madrid
Possible eleven of Real Madrid against Atlético in the League. ACE
Karim Benzema is the great novelty in Zidane's call. The Frenchman returns to the list after three games absent due to injury. He arrives just in time for a derby to which Zidane had lost his other first-team striker, Mariano, who was injured this week. The other high for the match against Atlético at the Wanda Metropolitano is Militao.
The Real Madrid coach has called up 20 players for the derby. With the recent additions, Hugo Duro remains the only survivor of Castilla along with Altube, who is usually integrated into the dynamics of the first team in the functions of third goalkeeper.
Three players remain in the white infirmary: in addition to the aforementioned Mariano, Carvajal, Ramos and Hazard. Zidane advanced that he hopes to have the Belgian in training this week and the captain should also work with the group again to have minutes against Elche and get closer to his goal of being to help the team in the round of 16 against Atalanta.
Zidane will maintain against Atlético the defense and the center of the field that he has been using in recent games, with Courtois in goal, Lucas Vázquez, Varane, Nacho and Mendy in the rear and Casemiro escorted by Modric and Kroos in midfield. Benzema will be at the top accompanied by Rodrygo on the right and the doubt of Asensio on the left or Isco behind the two ends. On the bench, for the possible five substitutions, Zidane will have nine players: Lunin, Altube, Militao, Marcelo, Valverde, Isco or Asensio, Vinicius and Hugo Duro.
This Sunday Courtois He will exceed 3,000 minutes played in all competitions this season (he has 2.9700 '), while Varane is, with 2,835 minutes in his legs, the outfield player most used by Zidane this season.