Atlético travels to Saudi Arabia today to play the Spanish Super Cup. Simeone’s team travels with a double sensation: in the first place a title is in dispute, with all that that entails. One more title for the record of a squad that LaLiga took last year. That forces you to have a good tournament. For Cholo it would be adding his ninth trophy at Atlético, just like Koke. The rojiblanco captain has eight and is two away from reaching Adelardo, who with ten is the rojiblanco player with the most trophies in the history of the entity. Koke is now tied with Godín. Big words.
The match against Athletic also forces them to offer a good levelSince Atlético is already a highly respected team outside of Spain. The regularity that was lacking in Europe has been achieved with the Cholo and one of the entity’s objectives is to expand its brand more and more.
But in the other place there is also the sporting theme and the great objective of the Madrid team is to be among the top four in LaLiga, something that does not seem very simple considering the results obtained so far. And Atlético is not overrun with troops. It has 20 players, waiting for Wass to arrive and Griezmann is injured, who will not return until February. Savic, the head of defense last season, will travel and knocked out due to injuries. The defender will travel, although another thing is that he plays.
Simeone recovers Luis Suárez and Giménez, both sanctioned against Emery’s team, regarding the match against Villarreal. Those who passed the coronavirus have been having minutes, like Koke or João Félix. Herrera, who has offers to go out in this winter market, needs minutes.
Thus the things, the Super Cup matters but much more the league championship and even around the corner is the tie against Real Sociedad. Atlético clings to fourth place, but he knows that between Betis, Real Sociedad, Barcelona and Atlético itself there are two positions. Real Madrid and Sevilla are way ahead of them. Cholo will not change the speech from game to game and meanwhile he continues to spin his system. At the beginning he plays with a 4-4-2, although it is not very clear what he will do in the next games.