The mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, assured that the Atlético de Madrid, of which he is an unconditional fan, “has sufficient resources and a large staff to be able to make up for the absences” of the Uruguayan Luis Suarez, from the Mexican Hector Herrera, of the Spanish Diego Costa and Víctor Machín ‘Vitolo', From the Belgian Yannick
Carrasco and from the Croatian Sime Vrstajko, and “even win” this Saturday at Barcelona in the stadium Wanda
Metropolitan.
After the presentation of the project New Mahou-Calderón, whose first phase urbanization works are nearing completion, José Luis Martínez-Almeida put the good time of Atlético de Madrid down to predict a victory for the mattress team, of which he is a fan.
“I think that he Athletics has enough resources and a large squad to, even playing against him Barça, to be able to make up for absences and even win ”, he said Martínez-Almeida.
Asked about the health status of Uruguayan striker Luis Suárez, who tested positive for covid-19 during the concentration with his team, Martinez-Almeida He assured that he is “well”, while regretting his foreseeable loss as he is “in good shape”.
The mayor of Madrid appealed to the history of Athletic to comment that this adversity “is one more”. “Therefore, it is a match where we arrived at a very good time of play, with Koke in a stellar moment, as we saw yesterday against Germany, with a Joao Felix who will undoubtedly be the best player of Europe over the next decade, so we also have reason to hope, ”he added.
Martinez-Almeida considered that the rojiblanco team “can win at Barça”. “I already know that statistics play against us, I know that we have never won with‘ Cholo ’in League to Barça, despite the fact that we have eliminated them twice from the Champions. Therefore, tradition is always broken. This Saturday, given our state of form and in view of the classification, to win would be to give Barça an important blow in sporting terms. That we go to 9 points would be an important sporting blow ”, he remarked.
The mayor was also confident in the options of the Atlético de Madrid to win this edition of The league. “If he Cholo listen to this, I would think the mayor of Madrid he has gone half mad. I say that game by game there is a squad to win the League ”, he declared.