Diego Pablo Simeone, coach of the
Atlético de Madrid
, will have to give a return to the eleven of the team, facing the game next Monday, January 8, against Celta de Vigo.
The Cholo will have casualties, sure, we will have to see how many. In the worst case, four absences, some key to eleven, like those of Beautiful, Carrasco, Joao Félix and other important also for being a replacement to be able to change the course of the party, that of Dembélé.
In this context, Simeone you will have to make some decisions. One of them has to do with the ownership of a pivot that may fall to
Geoffrey
Kondogbia, but also in the Mexican Hector Herrera.
For him Fox it is already a common situation in recent months. It is the third time that he has to retrace the path that he had already walked, to start over from that starting point.
The American is an example of perseverance in Athletic. He has just recovered from an injury that caused him to miss eight calls. He already had minutes in the clash against him Cadiz last week but, since his return, he still had not had a chance to start.
For him it is an eternal return. After starting the season without minutes, he earned his space to become the team's starting pivot for three games of the Champions League and four league duels.
But there began his ordeal. A muscle injury with his country that left him three games out. And later, when he had recovered, another new problem that left him out of the aforementioned eight calls.
THE EXPERIENCE OF THE PAST COURSE
The footballer has already gone through such a situation in the past year. In the first games of the season he had no minutes. Later, he added 755 minutes on the court as a result of the injury of Koke and when everything was going more or less well for him, he was injured in the previous match against him Real
Madrid. In this section, Simeone bet on Saúl Ñíguez, Koke and Thomas Parteand, placing Llorente sometimes as a pivot and others on the right wing. The scenario was also complicated by the signing of Carrasco.