Already alerted by his own numbers, with only four victories in the last eleven days, the Atlético de Madrid adds this Sunday the warning of Eibar, who has always scored and has lost nothing else in one of his three visits to the Wanda Metropolitano, where Marcos Llorente placeholder image will return to eleven and perhaps to attack, to replace the casualties of Joao Felix Y Luis Suarez.
The test is still conditioned by the absences in the morning training this Wednesday of Koke Resurrection Y Mario Hermoso, both with alternative training -in the case of the captain for the second day in a row-, and Thomas lemar, for some inconvenience, and Kieran trippier, due to a lumbar blow, the ownership of Llorente is indisputable, either as a forward or as a midfielder.
After completing his penalty game for a cycle of five yellow cards, he now resurfaces as the offensive option alongside Angel Correa to form the rojiblanca forward. Moussa Dembélé He points to the bench, on his return to the competition after being dropped against Sevilla and Betis for the monitoring and medical control due to the slight drop in blood pressure and the fainting suffered three weeks ago.
In that position he can also unfold Lemar, although he did not train this Wednesday with the group. Neither did he on Tuesday nor did he play last Sunday against Betis due to some discomfort. It is doubt for the Sunday commitment.
Also Kieran trippier, whose alternative in this Wednesday's essay was Sime Vrsaljko, although the Englishman will be the chosen one if he is in conditions for an alignment against Eibar that has several fixed names (the goalkeeper Jan Oblak, the centrals and Kieran trippier, the extreme Yannick Carrasco and the attackers Marcos Llorente placeholder image Y Angel Correa) and others apparently in doubt, depending on their physical condition or if any of them are dosed.
In that sense, Koke He has not exercised on Tuesday or Wednesday with the group, for alternative work, but he is expected in the line-up, for Hector Herrera or by Geoffrey kondogbia, the two media centers with which Simeone tested this Wednesday. The same happens with Trippier and predictably with Lemar, which would enter through Saúl Ñíguez, ‘Headline’ on the right wing during the rehearsal this Wednesday.
Within the structure of four defenders, instead of five, to which Simeone could return, the other unknown of the eleven is on the left side, between Renan lodi or Beautiful mario. The Brazilian was chosen this Wednesday in the first test, but the Spanish did not participate in it because he had alternative training.
THE EIBAR AND A LEADER ON NOTICE
This Sunday the Éibar awaits, with the alert that this means for Atlético. So wide is the difference between the two today -44 points, 67 to 23- and so certain is the inequality in the classification -leader against last- as evident has been the difficulty of the rojiblanco team every time they have crossed in their I walk with the team trained by Jose Luis Mendilibar.
By numbers and sensations, the former are as unquestionable as the latter. And so patent in his three clashes in the Metropolitan. In the most recent, on the third day of the 2019-20 academic year, with Atlético also at the top of the table, the set of Diego Simeone, but he did not do so until minute 89, until a bit of Thomas Partey nullified the initial distress of his team.
Atlético did not exist at the beginning, partially defeated in just 19 minutes by 0-2. The 0-1 marked it in the 7 Charles; the 0-2 scored it Anaitz Arbilla in the 19. Until then, Eibar was superior, with a resounding 0-2 that later was not enough, whye Joao Félix achieved 1-2 in 27, Vitolo tied at 52 and Thomas completed the comeback.
It is not a specific fact that Éibar is ahead in the field of the rojiblanco team. He did so on each of his three visits to the Wanda Metropolitano. Apart from the last one, on the other two occasions his goals were synonymous with points, with two draws, such as 2-2 in 2017-18 in the last round of that League, which also coincided with the farewell as a legend of Fernando Torres to the team of his life.
Then, the Madrid striker scored both goals for Atlético; the tie, in minute 42, to level the 0-1 of Kike Garcia, and 2-1, at game time, before the final 2-2 of Ruben Peña that consummated an equalizer that Éibar repeated the following year in the same scenario (1-1), at that moment on the verge of winning.
He did not do so due to the appearance in the 93rd minute of Borja Garcés -Then in the Atlético de Madrid subsidiary, as an emergency resource for the last moments of that clash, and now in the Fuenlabrada– when he picked up a rejected ball to score the goal that rescued his team. Sergi Enrich had scored 0-1.
Three precedents and three warnings, as warned by another data from the last two LaLiga seasons: of the last five games lost by Atlético in it, one was against Éibar in Ipurua 2-0. Of the other four, two are with Real Madrid, one with Levante and one with Sevilla. The leader is on notice.