Eight finals ahead. Atlético's players know what awaits them between now and the end of the season and nobody wants to do the math. Simeone clung from the beginning to the game by game And now that philosophy is more important than ever. Eibar. There's no more. The team of Simeone plays it, no longer network. And also Eibar, bottom and in a situation that he was not used to (follow the game live on AS.com). Ninety minutes with everything in the air, the leader looking at the title and the bottom trying to react so as not to get off the hook.
Atlético achieved a point against Betis in a match where his players threw their caste and pride. Very diminished in attack, the team resisted and was even very close to taking the victory. A week later, the Cholo recovers troops and it has Llorente, Dembélé, Kondogbia, Lemar, Trippier … Will not be neither Luis Suárez nor João Félix, but there are wickers to defeat Eibar. Llorente and Correa will form the Attacking partner and Carrasco and Saúl will play on the sides. The canterano has an opportunity to vindicate himself.
The leader receives Eibar and Huesca and those six points would give a lot of peace of mind to a team eager to regain the path of triumphs. The Metropolitan dictates sentence and the players know that the fans are with them: “Against everything and everyone, go ahead champion”; “Who does not believe, let him not come”; “Die for Atlético de Madrid”, have been the banners that the fans placed in the training place.
Eibar struggles not to descend. Model team and club, he has to fight not to lose a category in which he has always fought with his head high. But he has been thirteen days without winning, he has achieved four points from the last 39 and so it is difficult to stay in First. In the new rojiblanco stadium he has always shown his face: last season he lost in the 90th minute and in the previous two he drew a draw. The Eibar He has never given Atlético facilities. Simeone knows it. Mendilibar does not cry for casualties. Smart point of view. To shoot with those who are. The coach knows that Atlético has problems with the goal and Dmitrovic will try to show off again against the Madrid team. In the first leg Atlético won on the horn. Anyway, but the leader needs these three points.