'The Beast' returns

Diego Costa did part of Wednesday's training and we will have to see the next Atlético work sessions to see if the forward is in a position to return to Barcelona in the game this Saturday (9:00 pm). But for the Madrid team it is excellent news what Diego Costa already hasten your return to the playing fields. And more so now that Luis Suárez will be without playing due to his positive for coronavirus. Nobody is aware that Costa is a special and different player at Atlético. 'The Beast' returns, although Simeone will have to decide how to use him in the next matches.

Diego Costa made a good start to the campaign. There was speculation throughout the summer that he could leave the team as it was his last year of contract in the Wanda Metropolitano entity. Atlético did not finally receive any offer what to consider interesting and Diego Costa stayed on the squad. Later the club signed Luis Suárez and Simeone has two posh forwards. Neither of us is there to play every minute, but the Cholo can rotate them. Costa, 32, played the first four games of the championship: Granada, Huesca, Villarreal and Celta. The problem is that he was injured at Balaídos in a game in which he performed very well.

The match against Celta was on October 17 and both Costa and the doctors they set the goal of the match against Barcelona. The calendar, however, will not give Atlético a truce, that next week he will have to play against Lokomotiv and Valencia. Simeone will have to dose efforts and use all his players in these meetings. Costa is not here to play a whole game and Cholo will have to decide if against Barcelona puts João Félix and Marcos Llorente in the lead or if he starts Costa. It does not seem that Barcelona is the propitious rival for a possible return, but Cholo always plays a lot with him aspect of motivation and the game against the Barça team is not one more.

After his injury, he missed three league games (Betis, Osasuna and Cádiz) and the three in the Champions League (Bayern, Salzburg and Lokomotiv). Six games and the break has played in his favor, since he has had time to recover. Barcelona has always been a rival that has motivated the rojiblanco striker a lot. To play against the Catalan team would be to return in a big way. What Diego Costa has always liked.