Last year's debacle with Juve has served as a lesson for the dressing room. “It wasn't us at any time,” Koke recalled.
Gimnez, sitting on the turf of Turn, after the defeat.
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The doctor's warning voice about Joao Flix
Sometimes the simplest things are the most complex. The best recipe for Anfield is to score a goal there. Reflection, from the other side of the Atlantic (Sao Paulo specifically), makes this newspaper Juanfran Torres, present in all the great episodes of Attico de Simeone. Marking at Stamford Bridge or Mnich allowed us to reach two finals. And that Bayern Guardiola (68% possession) squeezed us really nice, he adds. That famous night in May 2016, smoke came out of Oblak's gloves. Of the 13 Bavarian shots, he had to reject 12, including a penalty to Mller. But the rojiblancos had an answer and Griezmann found the key.
The counterpoint to what was experienced in Munich occurred more or less a year ago in Turn. We just don't dial there. The rest is talking for talking, simplifies the former rojiblanco winger. The problem is that this Athletic man does not have a goal (44 in 37 games) nor is he happy when he crosses the Metropolitan's door. An did not win out in 2020 and his three Champions League visits resulted in two losses (Leverkusen and Turn) and one victory (Moscow).
Juanfran was one of the victims of the painful exhibition of Cristiano Ronaldo. The Atletico, with a rent of two goals, appeared at Juventus Stadium as if some spell had ruined him: he did not try Szczesny once, he did not take out any crner and his three pitches did not disturb the agitated typhosi. Three of the four shots on Juve's door ended up inside.
“Learn from Turn”
Koke, one of the headlines in the turins disaster, is well aware of that last nightmare. It was not us at any time. We have to learn from Turn so that it does not happen again, the Atletico captain reviewed in the Wanda auditorium, after the draw against Sevilla (2-2). We know that if we are aggressive we can compete as in the first leg. Then anything can happen, but the essence can never be lost, he warns.
We have been wrong in many things, admit that gloomy evening a resigned Diego Pablo Simeone, after giving in without answer in the mysterious capital of Piedmont. The same place where he had visited so many times defending the shirts of Pisa, when young, Inter Milan and Lazio, already established as a world star.
Oblak, Salt, Savic, Gimnez Y belt, apart from Koke, they lived from the trenches those two disparate episodes. Precisely Gimnez, whose image of desolation, sitting on the green between the Juventus party, illustrates this report, is one of Simeone's doubts for that wall in charge of supporting the predictable onslaught of Liverpool. The charra is discharged, but he has not played since the Super Cup final against Real Madrid, in Saudi Arabia, which he left enraged in the extension by a run.
Experiences in Liverpool
Beyond what happened in the first round, there are several players on the Atlético squad who know how Liverpool spends them almost instantly when the crowd turns off the mythical You'll Never Walk Alone from their throats. Kieran Trippier, without going any further. A pubalgia operation prevented him from participating three weeks ago, on the grass where Klopp took him from the sky with Tottenham, in the Champions League final. But the willful English right-back is ready to roll up his sleeves on a stage where his greatest achievement was a miraculous draw (2-2) in the added with the Spurs (17/18).
Then there is Diego Costa, who shut down Anfield on the first of his three visits with Chelsea (14/15). He is the only one who has desecrated the red sanctuary. lvaro MorataAlso with Chelsea, he tried twice without success.
And nobody is going to tell Philip How oxygen is scarce in that particular atmosphere, which emanates from the mythical southern tribune The Kop. A year ago, he could do nothing about Keita and Firmino's goals at Porto.
Scars and lessons with which the Attician will have to learn to survive in the temple of Anfied.
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