After three months without competition, LaLiga returns with hardly a breath. Atlético will start with a very intense stretch of matches and dangerous. The rojiblancos will play their first four games in ten days —Is one of the most compressed that block of sessions— and also three of them will be at home.
Football returns for Atleti this Sunday (14:00), when will you visit in San Mamés to Athletic. From there, Simeone's will play every three days. The wednesday 17 will travel north again, this time to face Osasuna (22:00); the saturday 20 the ball returns to the Wanda Metropolitano to receive the Valladolid (22:00) and the Tuesday 23, Atleti will play against I raised (19:30).
In addition to the frequency of the parties, which will demand a lot on a physical level to the staff, the team faces the inconvenience that three from those matches are away from home, where he performance Atleti has been pretty poor in league. Has only succeeded three wins away of the Metropolitan (Leganés, Mallorca and Betis), so it is obliged to improve.
In this sense, just as the team will lose the plus of the mattress fans, playing behind closed doors can help you out at the exits. The Athletic and Osasuna they become strong in San Mamés and El Sadar respectively. The Navarrese, in fact, got to link 31 games without losing at home. Without an audience it may be different.
AND Levante, without going any further, will not receive Atleti at Ciutat, field that is not good at rojiblancos: a win in the last eight visits. This year he will not be able to improve that record because the party It will be in Camilo Cano de La Nucía (Alicante).