By force. The
Atlético de Madrid
has been left with a single open front this season, after the surprising elimination in Copa del Rey from a few months ago and the least surprising in Champions, before him Chelsea, this past Wednesday.
The mattress box was eminently inferior to its rival in the Champions League, in both games. Uncomplainingly. Now, out of the maximum continental competition, obviously, those of Simeone they cling to the competition in which they are alive … very alive.
And what happened in London does not make the costumes doubt. “How are we going to have doubts at this point? If we had doubts we would not go out to play. Maximum confidence in this team, that we are having a great season in The league and we can reach the goal that is to be a champion … without leaving the day to day. On Sunday we have a final against Alavés and we have to win it to go to the break calm and keep the distance with those who come ”, pointed Koke after the game of Stamford
Bridge.
“The Atlético fan must be upset, hurt, disappointed, as he should be. And starting tomorrow, no later than Friday, reset and think again about what we have ahead, that with humility and work we will continue to carry it forward “, he declared. Simeone at the end of the game of London, who has “absolutely no fear” that this defeat will affect his team for the future.
And it is with all the nuances of the world that they want to put, this Athletic is the leader of The league, with 11 games to go. Four points difference (plus the ‘goal-average’) with the second classified, FC Barcelona; and six with Real Madrid, which is the third classified.
To the Athletic He has five games left in the Metropolitan, front Alavés, Huesca, Eibar, Real Sociedad and Osasuna. And also six games outside their stadium, against Sevilla, Betis, Athletic, Elche, Barcelona and Valladolid.
Among the least bad news for him Atlético de Madrid, that the culé team, which is the closest one right now, has a complex start schedule: Saint Sebastian, twice Valencia, Villarreal, Bernabeu… Or that a ‘classic’ remains between the Real Madrid and the Barça, in which in the best of cases, both could leave points and in the worst, one of them could be left off the fight. That will be on the 30th matchday.
THE DAY THAT COMES
And if Atlético clings to The leagueThat starts with the game this weekend. No pending matches for any team, after Seville Y Elche will play the last postponed, the day presents decisive clashes for the upper part and also the low of the classification as Athletic-Alavés, the Real Sociedad-FC Barcelona and the Celta-Real Madrid.
A priori, a day in which Atlético can think that their pursuers could leave some point, with which winning is considered an indispensable condition for the colchoneros.
The eleven of the Argentine Diego Pablo Simeone has to turn the page of London in a game against him Alaves, that life is at stake, and in which you will not be able to count on the Portuguese Joao felix, which will be dropped due to the accumulation of warnings.