Nelson Vivas class to Lodi

Atlético trained in the afternoon session and Simeone will not recover any of the players who are injured for the game against Granada: Giménez, Savic, Marcos Llorente, Griezmann and Vrsaljko. The Croatian did jump onto the pitch and exercised alongside one of the Madrid team’s recuperators. But he did it alone and was not with the group.

The training session was very smooth, only about three quarters of an hour, and the players did ball work after working out in the gym. Cholo did not rehearse anything for the league match against the Andalusian team. It remains to be seen if he does so in the pre-game training session.

The most remarkable thing came at the end of training. Nelson Vivas, second coach, spoke at length with Renan Lodi on the pitch while the rest of his companions had left the field. The coach was indicating to the left-handed Atlético the way in which he has to profile himself in both defensive and attack movements. Vivas insisted time and time again on the way he should position himself to make offensive transitions and also when it comes to defending.

Lodi was not a starter against Sevilla, although it could be one of the novelties in Atlético’s eleven against Granada, in the last league game this year for the rojiblanco team. The Brazilian has not counted much for Cholo in this first part of the season. I gave it He has played 19 games (13 in LaLiga and six in the Champions League), although only 571 minutes. Normally he has entered the second halves.