The
Atlético de Madrid
it is at the most delicate moment of the season. He is a leader, yes, he still is, but already in a virtual way. If he FC Barcelona wins his game on Thursday, postponed before him grenade, will be placed in the first position of the table.
The match against him Athletic Club de Bilbao served for Simeone once again have at his disposal several of the important players of the team. Among them a Thomas lemar that once again experiences a bump in his performance with the rojiblanco team.
The Frenchman has had no luck in this regard, because he has had physical problems that left him out of three games due to tendonitis in his left thigh. The Gaul missed appointments before him Betis, Eibar and the Huesca, but before that he had been limping in some duels, something that prevented him from performing at his best level.
That level that had led him to take a place in the starting eleven of the Atlético de Madrid when he seemed defenestrated, contributing two goals and four assists in that stretch. A different footballer who, from the central zone, was associated in short and found spaces where there were them.
Hence, the Frenchman's slump has occurred at the worst possible moment, with the rojiblanco team playing some of the most important games of the season.
In the clash before him Athletic, the Frenchman got lost in the tangle of entrenched rivals and it was not the solution that the Cholo I expected. In his 31 minutes on the field, he gave 19 good passes, missed two, crossed once to the area, recovered a ball but above all lost six.
The Athletic he needs to recover the best version of the Frenchman for the remaining five games, five real finals.