Atlético has announced the call for 23 players for tonight's game against Alavés. It is almost identical to the latest Simeone lists with a novelty: Felipe returns to the group, who has not been able to play since the competition resumed. On the other hand, Mario Hermoso was left out due to injury.
Felipe participated at a good pace in the last training sessions of Atlético and is already one more to compete. The Brazilian suffered a “muscle strain in the quadriceps of the left leg” and he has missed these four encounters. A setback for Cholo, for whomra their most used defense, although Giménez, Savic and Hermoso have performed at a high level.
Mario Hermoso, For his part, he had some discomfort from the game against Levante. He did not take part in the team's Friday training and medical tests have revealed that he has a “Muscle injury in the adductor region of the left thigh”.
The rest of the list are the usual ones. Vrsaljko still out while recovering from the arthroscopy to which he was subjected five weeks ago and the summons are completed by the youth squad Manu Sánchez and Toni Moya.