Simeone, a day off before the final battle

“Take your break. Your mind will regain energy and a new and obvious idea will have before your eyes. Whoever rests in his work produces much more than he who allows himself to be enslaved by it.“. The phrase belongs to the Colombian philosopher Efraín Gutiérrez Zambrano and Simeone has taken it to his training sessions, he has put it on his players. Because, two days before the match against Osasuna, the Argentine coach gave his players rest. He will only have one day to prepare for the final battle against Osasuna, the penultimate day of the League. If the rojiblancos win and Madrid don't, they will be proclaimed League champions. The second final of the three that remain. But Simeone has chosen what Efraín says. May your players disconnect, rest, and come back stronger tomorrow.

Because it will be tomorrow when the team returns to training with its head in Osasuna. Simeone He has summoned his footballers at 11:00 at Cerro del Espino to face that single session that will serve to prepare that match. The concepts, eight months after the start of the season, are clear. your ideas too. Your footballers can play by heart. And now, so close, it adds more to the rest than the beating, save.

Cholo has all his available men except Lemar, who suffered a muscle injury in the 12th minute of the match against Barça and he is expected for the last Liga match, against Valladolid, in which Atlético could already be champions … Or continue playing LaLiga with Real Madrid in 90 to life or death. Saúl took the Frenchman's place in the match against Real Sociedad. Men like Koke, Savic, Oblak, Trippier, Suárez, Llorente or Carrasco are immovable. And they also needed this disconnection 24 hours before the final battle.