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Atlético, already in Lisbon after a discreet welcome

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Athletic of Madrid
He is already concentrated in a central Lisbon hotel, where he has been received only by a fan and the press, and from where he will leave this Tuesday for his first training session in Portugal.

The rojiblanca expedition bus arrived at the hotel after 2:15 p.m. local time (13:15 GMT) and the 25 players summoned and SimeoneIn addition to the coaching staff, they quickly entered the hotel, located on one of the main streets of the city, in the middle of a reduced security device.

Hardly any scream has been heard as the Portuguese pass by João Felix. The rest, at a fast pace.

In the enclosure, which has received them with the phrase “Another way of understanding life” and the club's shield on its facade, they will be practically alone, with just a score of tourists, given the global context of the coronavirus, which has impacted packed in Portuguese tourism.

Atlético's arrival in Lisbon

Plenty of space to face the hours before Thursday's quarter-final match against German Leipzig, which they will continue to prepare this afternoon at the Seixal Training Center (Benfica's sports city), half an hour south of Lisbon.

The arrival of the expedition has been delayed one day due to the positives of Covid-19 of the footballers Angel Correa and Vrsaljko, which led to testing the entire team.

Joao Félix, upon arrival in Lisbon

In the end, Diego Simeone's call excludes both and is made up of goalkeepers Jan Oblak, Antonio Adán and Álex dos Santos; defenders Kieran Trippier, Santiago Arias, Felipe Monteiro, Stefan Savic, José María Giménez, Mario Hermoso, Renan Lodi and Manu Sánchez; the media Saúl Ñíguez, Koke Resurrección, Thomas Partey, Héctor Herrera and Toni Moya; wingers Yannick Carrasco, Thomas Lemar and Víctor Machín ‘Vitolo'; and the forwards Álvaro Morata, Diego Costa, Ivan Saponjic, Joao Félix, Marcos Llorente and Rodrigo Riquelme.

Gabby Barker

Gabby is someone who is interested in all types of sports, she loves to attend watching matches live. Whenever there is a match being played in her city, she makes sure to get the tickets in advance. Due to the love for sports, she joined Sportsfinding, and started writing general sports news. Apart from writing the news, she is also the editor for the website who checks and edits every news content before they go live.

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