Éderzito António Macedo Lopes, better known as Eder, is a true legend in Portugal. His country even if he was born in Guinea-Bissau. And tonight will be the great threat of Lokomotiv of Moscow in the absence of the former Celtic Smolov. A player who brings back very bad memories for both Griezmann like Filipe Luis…
Eder is one of those secondary players who at one point come on stage to become the heroes of their national teams or in this case of an entire nation. That happened to him at the end of the Eurocup 2016. A regular substitute in Portugal came out in the second half of a game that was expected to solve it Cristiano Ronaldo, Nani or Willian Carvalho for his country but already in overtime a distant shot was taken that slipped into the goal of Hugo Lloris. A real goal that crowned him a true hero in his country.
That was one of the worst days of a Antoine Griezmann that at that time he was a player for Atlético de Madrid. And a few weeks before he lost the final of the Champions League in Milan…. Two years later he took revenge on Eder defending the shield of the bear and the strawberry tree, eliminating the Lokomotiv from Moscow of the round of 16 of the Europa League by an 8-1 aggregate after the 3-0 of the Metropolitano and the 1-5 in the Russian capital.
The other former rojiblanco who will not be able to forget him is Filipe Luis. On March 15, 2018 the Atlético de Madrid visited the Lokomtiv Stadium in a match that was presented as a mere formality after the 3-0 in the first leg. But nevertheless Simeone He preferred to enter the usual starters and even keep them on the field even if the game seemed resolved. With the 1-2 on the scoreboard, Eder He entered from the right and took a cross that when trying to clear the side caused a bad footprint that generated a fibula fracture. A totally fortuitous act. An injury that caused him not to play the final of the Europa League and did not arrive with guarantees of facing the duel of the European Super Cup before him Real MadridThat day Cholo decided on Lucas instead of the Brazilian. The last two titles he won as a rojiblano.
So one of the great threats of the Lokomotiv it has already been the nightmare of several mattresses …