Mario Hermoso (25 years old) he joined Atlético de Madrid this season from Espanyol for 25 million plus four in variables. He arrived after a great performance the last two years at the parakeet club with the aim of reinforce the mattress behind after the departures of Godín and Lucas Hernández. Also, like the latter, serves as a wild card for both the central and left-back position. However, so far he has not been able to prove his worth under Simeone.
The Madrid central He has played a total of 23 games this season with Atlético de Madrid (17 in LaLiga, five in Champions and one in Copa del Rey). Since the return of domestic competition after the pandemic, has only participated in three meetings (against Levante, Osasuna and yesterday Betis) playing a total of 205 minutes out of 810 possible. He has been affected by an injury to the adductor of the left leg and reappeared yesterday in the Wanda Metropolitano against Betis to supply the injured Giménez.
The game went normally for him until in the 56th minute he threw himself to the ground to cut a snatch from Loren with the misfortune that hit him with the studs on the outside of his left ankle. The referee of the meeting, González González, he did not hesitate and showed him the direct red cardboard. Like all plays of this type, the VAR reviewed it and the referee went to the screen to examine the action more calmly, but kept his initial decision. This expulsion supposes the first direct red card that Hermoso sees in his career, which runs for 153 games between Real Madrid, Valladolid, Espanyol and Atlético. Total He has only had to leave the field of play on cautions three times in all this time.
His loss is a setback for Simeone ahead of the next LaLiga game against Getafe on the 16th at the Coliseum. The candidates to replace him are Felipe and Giménez, although this carries some discomfort that made him be low yesterday and, a priori, he doubts for Thursday.
