The Athletic has marked the visit Villarreal in red. A stadium that always complicates Simeone's men a lot and where he accumulates five seasons consecutive without winning. After the two punctures against Levante, together with the defeat in the Champions League against Chelsea, the rojiblanco team needs to return to the path of victory.
And for this, Cholo has been recovering strength of his bench. After the casualties will be primed with their equipment, losing six players to coronavirus, in addition to muscle injuries and Trippier's sanction, which ends todayAlthough he will not be able to be in La Cerámica, the infirmary has gradually emptied. Carrasco and Giménez continue to recover of their physical problems, but Vrsaljko and Herrera is it so back and the first points to the eleven to free Llorente from having to play in the right lane. With the recovery of the Mexican, Atlético has not been infected with coronavirus after having a very bad time in recent weeks.
Hermoso, Carrasco, João Félix, Lemar, Dembélé and Herrera they have overcame COVID in this month of February and Simeone will have more than eleven guarantees to visit La Cerámica. If in front of Celta and Granada was under lows, carrying out a single substitution in each of the games, before the Villarreal may look at the benchor to turn the team upside down. In addition, the footballers who suffered the disease have been recovering their peak of form. The Argentine coach has been testing with an eleven formed by Oblak; Vrsaljko, Savic, Felipe, Hermoso, Lodi; Llorente, Koke, Lemar; Correa and Luis Suárez. A team of guarantees, but where also from the bench draft players would wait for their opportunity by João Félix, Saúl, Kondogbia, Torreira, Herrera, Dembélé or Vitolo.
Alternatives in attack, with João Felix starting again as a substitute after the starts against Levante and Chelsea, Dembélé asking for passage in full growth and the variant of Vitolo that he resorted to in the last two appointments. But where there is more possibilities is in the center of the field. If the one formed by Koke, Llorente and Lemar is highly offensive, Saúl, Kondogbia, Torreira and Herrera they can come out to give balance and physical reinforcement to the environment. Besides, the Saul's versatility It also allows him to play as a left lane and it would not be strange to see Llorente again minutes there with another player reinforcing the middle.
Simeone has been one of the coaches that more has exploded the possibility of carrying out five changes in matches since the start of the pandemic. El Cholo has always shown supporter of the regulation, and against Villarreal he will once again have the opportunity to be more interventionist from the bench with the movement of his pieces. The Atlético has recovered troops, and the quality of the substitutes at La Cerámica is the best proof of this.