Griezmann will play against Milan

Griezmann will play against Milan. The appeal presented by Atlético de Madrid before his sanction has been successful and UEFA has lowered the punishment of the French in one match for the red one he saw at Atlético-Liverpool just a month ago, for a kick by Firmino, involuntary and fortuitous. In principle there were two. Therefore, Griezmann has already fulfilled the punishment for that card: the game against Liverpool at Anfield. His presence against Milan becomes essential. Against Milan, the Frenchman’s goal started the comeback and, since then, in each action he already reminds Griezmann that he left, fundamental and decisive, second top scorer for Cholo this season, with 5 goals.

Atlético breathes where this week the two-game suspension on Griezmann fell like a cluster bomb. An unexpected bomb, almost a month after the action occurred, the sanction is known, and disproportionate, the two parties. In fact, similar actions have been seen in this Champions League but they did not have the same punishment, neither at the moment nor later, the red one, the two games: It happened with Ibrahimovic in Milan-Oporto and it happened in Liverpool-Atlético, at the end, when Diogo Jota gave a kick almost tracing of the French but without any punishment.

Simeone will therefore recover for that match two fundamental troops who were not in the cable against Liverpool at Anfield: Griezmann and Savic, who served in that match the last of the four penalties for an elbow, with a subsequent protest, to Rudiger, in his last match in the last Champions League. Also punishment that, a priori, seemed disproportionate but before which no recourse was successful, as now with Griezmann.