A duel for command

The one of the Metropolitan is today a duel for the leadership. The white-blue they rule the table. Three teams can snatch the site: Madrid, Sevilla and Atleti. With the latter you measure (follow the game live on AS.com). You will know the result of the first two when they jump into the game tonight. That will tint everything with emotion. If the rojiblancos win, the champion can regain his throne. The scary Imanol team arrives. He lost his first game against Barça and then no more. Neither in the league nor in Europe. Eleven games. In seven of them with a clean sheet.

Imanol travels with important casualties such as that of Oyarzabal and Zubimendi, and a problem on the left: the sanction of Aihen Muñoz leaves him without a natural side. So Imanol will have to invent something. A problem in defense that Cholo also has. Savic is coming out of injury and does not arrive. The technician must give up that suit in which he feels so comfortable. The one with the three centrals. Going back to defense of four seems like his plan. With rest, perhaps, for footballers like Carrasco. Llorente is not there and the center of the field already seems to belong to those three men who fill it so well: Koke, De Paul and the key Lemar. Fabulous.

Fabulous like João. Spike of the trident with which Cholo seeks to prod Imanol to remove his chair, with Suárez and It bites. The technician of Real, meanwhile, will leave with what he has: Portu, Januzaj and Isak, flanked by Merino. And a Silva who will start again in the League. Imanol has already beaten Cholo twice. The Argentine will seek not to be three. Command in the League is at stake. Munuera Montero will referee, by the way, with the end of Celta-Atleti still in memory.

La Real inspires Suárez … and Griezmann

For Griezmann this will always be a special game, everything started in Zubieta. He has never celebrated the goals that, later, as a rival, he has scored. And they have been. Six already. Like Suarez. The Uruguayan tends to be inspired by white-blue. Six goals in 14 games. Imanol, meanwhile, look at another statistic: that the last two times that Real beat Atleti in their field, LaLiga finished classified for the Champions League.