Real Madrid-Atlético in five games

1 – Carlo Ancelotti-Diego Simeone

The pulse between the two most successful technicians of LaLiga in the present it forces us to look at the past. It has been six and a half years since they faced each other as visible heads of Real Madrid projects and Atlético de Madrid, and left great tactical pulses in the first stage. The tenth with the name of ‘Carletto‘, however unable to defeat the’Cholo‘ in League, the only coach in the history of the white club who did not win at Athletic in none of their first four league matches: three defeats and one draw.

The tactical duel of old duels will be lowered in the reunion with a Real Madrid defined, with no room for change because Ancelotti you won’t play what works for you after hitting the key. The work, which the Argentine is so passionate about, corresponds to Simeone that he will look on his board for the way to put a stop to a team on a 4-3-3 streak, and the way to look for its weaknesses to put his team, the reigning champion, in the pulse for the title. Obligation stalks the ‘Cholo‘, the tranquility of the one who starts with advantage accompanies Carlo in his challenge to conquer the only League of the greats that is missing in his history.

2 – Thibaut Courtois-Jan Oblak

Included by their own merits in the bunch of the best goalkeepers in the world, the present of both is very different before the derby. Courteous installed in its best version, a basic pillar in the regularity of the Carlo Ancelotti, used to making saving saves when his team needs them most, fueling an endless winning streak; cloud away from his sober image, of the goalkeeper who always supported the defensive strength of the team of Simeone, leaving this season improper errors of his greatness.

The rojiblanco left his clean sheet five times in fifteen games of League, the same number of times as the madridista on a more disputed day. A total of 16 goals conceded by cloud, 15 for Courteous. The equality in the statistics does not transfer to the field of play where the Belgian leaves a 75% success in stops, stopping three out of every four shots he receives, while the Slovenian lowers it to 50% in the course in which he is most has humanized. A good part of the success of their teams in the derby will depend on the success of both.

3 – Karim Benzema-Antoine Griezmann

Teammates in the French team, rivals in a derby in which they must take responsibility for the goal. Benzema takes a quality leap to Real Madrid with his return, freshly recovered from muscular discomfort, the 9 which is much more than the goal for what he contributes to the game, his level of association with teammates inventing actions full of quality in the last meters, the difficulty to seal his mark to centrals. He will exercise again king of the derby after the goodbye of Sergio Ramos with which he reaches 37, the fourth in history with the most clashes.

Top scorer of LaLiga with twelve targets he measures his moment to that of Griezmann, the great rojiblanca threat before the presumable substitution of Luis Suarez for his muscle problem. The Frenchman was the player who gave the last triumph of the Atlético de Madrid at Santiago Bernabeu and, after his stage of shadows after the decision to sign for the Barcelona, recover happiness in a place where it was always valued. He arrives launched after being decisive in the moment of truth in the Champion Leagues, reconciled with the goal with his seven goals so far this season, and once again feeling the leadership that his best version unleashes. Three goals in his memories of Bernabeu that seeks to expand to dynamite LaLiga.

4 -Vinicius-Marcos Llorente

Circumstances cause Marcos Llorente placeholder image Go back to the one you were married playing in a district where you don’t feel like you can show your football fully. Away from the center of the field, playing on the wing and against an opponent with a pure winger that will force him to defend lower, reducing his influence in the offensive game with his incorporations. On their backs fell one of the great challenges of the derby, putting a brake on the moment Vinicius‘.

The Brazilian arrives thrown into a game in which he has not yet contributed anything that is expected of him in the present. He has made the leap in quality in leadership as his definition improved and he is the player in the best shape of the entire championship, an unbalancing factor in matches, a constant threat to each rival that leaves space to run at Real Madrid. His ten goals in League They are, without reaching the middle of the championship, the scoring record of a player who does not find a ceiling and who has a new challenge: to reign in the great derby.

5 – David Alaba-Geoffrey Kondogbia

It will be the first start in a derby for both. Premiere David praise in one of those duels that he witnessed on television and wanted to play. After leaving his mark on the classic, with his first goal as a madridista nothing more and nothing less than in the Camp Nou. He will exhibit hierarchy after achieving what seemed impossible, that Real Madrid does not long for the figure of Sergio Ramos, thanks also to the growth of Militao in a couple that has established itself as a key in the good moment of the team of Carlo Ancelotti. The Austrian, who had to solve problems on the left side in a couple of games, has not needed a period of adaptation to Spanish football. Its performance is immediate.

For Kondogbia the derby will be a tough test because he faces it far from his natural demarcation. It will not appear in the center of the field. It will be an emergency solution to the plague of losses of power plants that suffers Simeone, like in Port. On two occasions in his career he beat Real Madrid, with Sevilla and Valencia, and even scored him in the Bernabeu. This time he will play a role full of difficulty. With Benzema in front and Felipe as a new dance partner looking for the defensive stability lost by the Atlético de Madrid this course with an improper fragility of a ‘Cholo’ team.

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