The
Atlético de Madrid will be measured at Lokomotiv of Moscow, on the third day of the Champions League. The mattress box will face the Russian team again. And it is that in recent times, in the last five years, this same rival has already been measured on two other occasions, one in Europa League and the other in his own Champions, the latter the previous season.
Come on, they are rivals who know each other perfectly. In fact, the Athletic it has become a kind of modern nightmare for the Russian club. The mattresses have taken the measure of the rival this Tuesday.
The Lokomotiv has never won at Athletic in official match. The Atlético de Madrid remains undefeated in their previous five games against him Lokomotiv.
The best the Slavic side has achieved to date is a three-goal draw in the duel of Europa League that both maintained in 2007, in the second European competition in which at that time, in the qualifying group there was only one confrontation with each rival.
The next crossing was at Europa League 17/18. So the team of Simeone crushed his now rival, in the double elimination of the tournament that would end up taking. Saúl Ñíguez, Diego Costa Y Koke scored in a 3-0 first leg win in the Metropolitan before a 1-5 win in the Stadion Lokomotiv
from
Moscow, where Angel Correa Y Saul saw door and Maciej
Rybus did the only goal of Lokomotiv.
And last season, again, the Atlético de Madrid He passed over his rival, won 0-2. In the party of Moscow, the mattress team won a great match of Joao Felix
. The Portuguese opened the scoring at 48 minutes, with a good goal in which he was ready. Y Thomas Partey rounded off the crash, in which Jan Oblak a huge stop was marked, one of those miraculous ones, to give the Athletic the three points.
In the crash of Wanda
Metropolitan, again, the Athletic beat. By 2-0. Joao
Felix, again, opened the scoreboard. This time a penalty that he caused himself. And in the second half Felipe Augusto Monteiro he scored his only goal with the rojiblanca so far, just off a corner kick.