Good news for Cholo: one week after the league start, June 14 against the Atheltic in San Mames (2:00 p.m. after the schedule change announced today): Ángel Correa returns to work on the pitch. The Argentine, who suffered his first muscle injury in his entire career in the Atletico team, six years ago, on May 28, in the left leg. Eight days later he worked out on the grass with his sights set on being ready for the return of the competition. after the three-month hiatus due to the coronavirus.
Correa worked alongside one of the rojiblanco team recuperators, Óscar Pitillas, always vigilant behind his mask, in the polyhedron. Its presence in San Mamés, therefore, is not ruled out. A game for which Cholo could no longer count on João Félix, sanctioned but now also injured. The Portuguese has been the other good news for Atlético this week as he has also worked hard on the grass of the sports city, including with the ball, with the date of the match against Osasuna (June 17, 10:00 p.m.) in the head. Vrsaljko is the third injured of Simeone but in the case of the Croatian, who went through the operating room for an arthroscopy, he has not appeared on the grass from Majadahonda yet. Costa, who had to go to court yesterday, exercised on the sidelines by burden sharing.
The Cholo tests: Morata-Carrasco
In Cholo's initial plan, before Correa was injured, it was that the Argentine was a Costa partner at the point of attack against Athletic. An idea that this muscle injury disrupted and that places Lemar in that position. After the COVID-19 pandemic, the games will come with five changes and all probation is little for a coach like the Argentine, always so methodical. In today's session he tried another eleven different from the one he had been rehearsing these days: Arias for Trippier, Carrasco for Lemar and Morata for Costa. Oblak; Arias, Savic, Giménez, Lodi; Llorente, Saúl, Thomas, Koke; Carrasco y Morata was his eleven. The ultimate?