The Atlético de Madrid dispute this Saturday before Barcelona one of the most important meetings of the season. At the moment of both teams, by the rival's entity, by history … One of those games in which all the fans look at when the LaLiga calendar comes out.
But fans will have to watch it on television. It will be the first great night of the Metropolitan without an audience. For the coronavirus pandemic. Despite the fact that in other categories fans are already allowed access to the fields, not in professional football. In the First and Second divisions, they continue to play behind closed doors.
An Atlético-Barcelona without an audience will not be the same. Neither for the fans, nor for the players, who throughout the week have been in charge of remembering it. Any game with fans is a different one. We will miss you. I hope they will return to the stadium soon and live the nights that we have lived in the past ”, he assured Oblak.
In the same line it was shown Joao
Felix, who has lived fewer big nights than the Slovenian. “You need fans in the games. We recently played against him Lokomotiv and we had fans and it is already different. It was football again back. I hope they come back quickly, ”said the Portuguese. And Hermoso also spoke: “Soon we hope to be all together, that we will enjoy football again every weekend. Hopefully we can do it as soon as possible and that they continue to support from home so that things continue to go well for us ”.
A RELIEF FOR GRIEZMANN
The one who will live a more placid night than last year will be Antoine Griezmann. The Frenchman stepped onto the Metropolitan for the first time since his departure less than a year ago, and encountered a hostile climate before, during and after the game. There was even some unpleasant song for a footballer who went from hero to villain for the mattress fans. A banner was even displayed in the south background with this message: “You wanted to have a name, and you forgot to be a man.” The Gaul was dejected and sad at various times.
Not because of his decision to go to Barcelona, leaving 120 million euros in cash, but because of the forms, since it transpired that Griezmann gave the 'yes' to the Catalan club in the middle of the knockout stages of the Champions League round of 16 against Juventus , which caused the anger of the mattress fans.