Griezmann’s first time at Real was against Athletic. A tournament of boys, their test to stay or not from the hand of Olaths, their discoverer. Griezmann scored, Griezmann stayed. Athletic was recorded in its history. He is the usual rival, that of a boy grown up in Zubieta, who has scored the most goals in his career (12)the second against whom he has played the most (27 times), the one against whom he woke up to start being Griezmann in his first time at Atleti (2014), with a hat-trick that tore him from the comings and goings to the bench. A flight needing the French and Atleti to face the remaining five finals and qualify among the top four, the next Champions. He fights it with Barça, Sevilla and Betis on a tile. They are rooms (follow the match live on AS.com).
And Cholo clings to the Grizzly zonealthough this Antoine is not the first in the goal: he has three in the League, 8 in total. He will seek his mix with Suárez, in the first of the Uruguayan’s last five games at Atleti, also far from the 21 goals of last LaLiga (13). Simeone has been training with them for the week, in an eleven without Koke (only substitute 11 times with Cholo) and with Herrera and Kondogbia in the center, unsuspected pair of pivots in August that Cholo now clings towith the memory of the game against United in his head, in which they were key and pediment, insurmountable. The return of the Mexican is key, after a month-long injury, like Giménez, which also returns from nursing to ownership. Savic, sanctioned.
The Betis Cup opens Europe to the 7th. For Athletic (8th, 48 points, four behind Villarreal) today the last train may pass. With the electoral process leaving the continuity of Marcelino in the air. Sancet and Villalibre are low. Specific tips left for Williams and Rollwho by the way will enter today on the podium of games played in the League. Against Atleti it had to be…