Few players can feel as happy about the return of a teammate as Marcos Llorente with Trippier's. The Englishman has freed him from having to act as a lane or right back and has recovered the connection on the right wing that has given so much revenue to Atlético and With which the goal of Luis Suárez in the derby and the forced penalty and scored by the Uruguayan against Athletic originated.
That Trippier strengthens the right wing is undoubted, but the team has turned its game towards that side again. The Englishman was, together with Koke, the player who gave the most good passes in the match against Athletic, both with 66. Although he had a lot of defensive work on his side, where Yuri's increases were concentrated with the fall of Muniain and Raúl García, he won 71.4% of the melee duels and was right in his three tickets, recovering a total of nine balls, the most of the team.
Trippier had played it all in the League and the Champions League until FIFA sanctioned him for ten weeks without being able to play or train (the latter was corrected after Atlético's claim) as a result of the English Federation for violating the regulations on gambling in the summer in which he signed for the rojiblanco club from Tottenham. After obtaining the precautionary and playing against Sevilla, he missed nine consecutive games, coinciding with Atlético's greatest weakness and conceding in eight of them.
Although on his return also Real Madrid and Athletic have each scored a goal against Oblak, Trippier's presence improves the team in all facets and empowers his teammates, who always have support on the side to deliver the ball, open the field when they are closed on the other side and have a solution that contributes in attack with their good collective game and vision for unchecking space. A blessing for Llorente and for Simeone, who with Trippier has recovered the full potential of his right wing.