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He has been playing his games for eight months without fans in front of him. A circumstance that will change in the clash on Tuesday against the Lokomotiv of Moscow. A new scenario that the rojiblancos will have to face because there are many games already played as if this sport were something else.
However, at the meeting on Tuesday, November 3, the Simeone not only will they have to face their sports rival, the LokomotivThey will also have to overcome the environmental factor of a very spirited hobby against.
It is true that it will not be the full capacity, only 30% of it is allowed, about 8,000 fans in total, but in the previous appointment held in the RZD Arena, before him Bayern Munich, it was already seen how noisy the fans of the 'Railroad’In a context like the current one, with‘ soccer jumpsuit ’. The fans carried those of Marko Nikolić to tie the match they almost won … although they ended up losing it.
The Russians want to assert this advantage. The midfielder of Lokomotiv Anton Miranchuk asked the fans to support the maximum. “At this difficult time for us, I urge everyone to come together. We really need your support in the game against Atlético, ”said the player. And it is that for the mattress rival, this matter may be something in their favor. Dmitry Cheryshev, former player of Sporting de Gijón and now a commentator, so he understands it too “Any player has a very good disposition to take on these types of rivals. At the request of the Lokomotiv there is the fact that they play in Moscow, where stadiums have not been closed in the pandemic. The AthleticFor example, he now plays home games with empty stands, and this is a bit of a distorted football. So it is possible that the support of the fans will help the railroads to hold on to this match, “he said in statements to Izvestia .
For him Atlético de Madrid many months have passed since the last time he was able to play a game with the public. It was in the previous edition of the Champions League, before him Liverpool, in the already mythical party of Anfield Road in which those of Simeone they defeated the champion of Europe and they earned their place in the quarterfinals. Then, the mattress team carried out a complicated game against the then best team of Europe and in front of 52,000 spectators, 3,000 of them Spanish.
In the clash on Tuesday, however, there will be no rojiblancos fans from Spain because the Russian authorities are still very strict with the entry of tourists from our country, one of the most affected by the coronavirus. The Atlético de Madrid You will also find a similar scenario, that of a match with an audience, before the RB Salzburg, on the last day of the Champions League.
NO AUDIENCE IN THE METROPOLITAN … NEITHER IN EUROPE
The Atlético de Madrid I dreamed that, once the UEFA allows the presence of 30% of the public, wherever the local authorities allow it, the clash of next December 1, could be disputed with the public.
However, it will not be so because the Higher Sports Council and the Autonomous Communities They have reached an agreement so that it is not allowed, given the worrying data on infections in our country. For now, things will continue as before. The authorities link the presence of spectators in these continental competition events to the fact that it can also be done in First Y Second division.
As long as this is not the case, it will not be allowed in any of the areas because the authorities reported that they intend to “offer a joint response to the current epidemiological situation, which discourages the occurrence of risk situations such as those that could occur if the public attendance at sporting events such as those mentioned “.