De Paul started showing his set piece glove

Atlético has few new faces in the transfer market, where the fundamental objective was to maintain the backbone of the team that was proclaimed champion of the last League, something that had not been possible to carry out in the previous title, when Simeone lost fundamental pieces such as Diego Costa, Filipe, Villa or Courtois.

Without a doubt, and waiting for it to arrive some reinforcement in attack, with Rafa Mir as the most feasible option, the great addition so far has been Rodrigo de Paul. A true champion of the Copa América, assistant in the final to defeat Brazil and in the ideal eleven of the tournament for his fundamental role with Argentina. The former Udinese player, who cut his vacation by a week to be under Cholo's orders as soon as possible, He has already had his first minutes as a rojiblanco, played the first half of the match against Cádiz and almost an hour against Feyenoord.

And, although he has not yet been seen to have excessive continuity in the game, he has already been gaining stripes and beginning to demonstrate one of his great qualities, hitting a set piece. That 2013-14 LaLiga champion Atlético stood out for a brilliant level of set pieces. Lhe strategy was perfected and became one of the most prominent in European football in the early years of cholism. But, in recent years it has been losing power. Something in which the arrival of De Paul will greatly benefit the team. The Argentine already had stripes against Feyenoord to launch the corners of the right profile of the mattress attack.

In all of them he made clear his great hitting. He looked for Giménez, whom he found in three of them. The Uruguayan won practically all the duels and took advantage of the 'candies' of his new partner to being close to the goal on several occasions, the clearest crashing his head on the crossbar. With the expulsion of Carrasco, Atlético stopped having so much presence and did not take a corner from that profile again. But De Paul had already shown his great hitting, as he did during the match with his game changes. Last season the Argentine finished as the third player with the most good centers in the Serie A area (72), getting 34 good assists from set pieces where two of them ended in goals. Atlético have added a new weapon to De Paul to increase their figures from set pieces and Giménez, Suárez, Felipe, Hermoso or Savic could be the great beneficiaries.