Simeone The Guardiola. Atletico Madrid The Manchester City. That is the daisy that madridismo will strip tonight to find out which team awaits the whites in the semifinals of the Champions League and which coach will visit a Bernabeu that this season seems unassailable.
And it is that, of all the possible benches, the most ‘marked’ by the white fans are those of the City from Guardiola for his culé past, and that of Simeone for his present mattress.
Bad memory against City
Of all the memories that the whites have with these coaches in Europethe last and the worst is that of the knockout round of last 2020 against Manchester City which was interrupted by the pandemic.
The whites, who already lost 1-2 in the first leg, repeated the same result in the second leg in a game in which Raphael Varane He was the protagonist for worse because of his defensive errors.
Good memory against Atlético
For their part, it is clear that the Whites have good memories against Atlético de Madrid, who have won two finals (Lisbon 2014 and Milan 2016) and also eliminated them in the 14/15 and 16/17 seasons on the way to the twelfth.
In fact, in the regional derbies, the colchoneros do not have a great record either and in the last League, they both lost. Also in the present where they fell precisely in the Bernabeu for 2-0.
So the real Madridwho is already in the semifinals, will pay attention tonight to the duel between the English and the Spanish to find out who will be the next guest at ‘his’ Bernabeu.
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