In the surroundings of Anfield, the fine rain and the strong breeze soak and make one, the Portuguese end died this summer in a traffic accident, ephemeral player of Atlético de Madrid and myth and myth and legend of the Liverpool. Murals and offerings in honor of the Portuguese attacker of the English champion and Diego Pablo Simeone and his players in the Champions League (21.00 hours; Movistar LC). Captain Koke and the president, Enrique Cerezo, joined the tributes with the delivery of a bouquet of flowers.
Atlético landed at the John Lennon airport in Liverpool, chewing two more absences to add those of Baena, Tiago Almada and Giménez. The spray medical part condemns Simeone to a resistance exercise and old guard: Koke and Griezmann. so that Atlético added to Villarreal (2-0) his first victory of the course. “The casualties are never good, and less in the different situations. Johnny’s ankle [Cardoso]Baena appendicitis, situations that exceed what football is. But it is part of this and we are focused on the boys who are going to start, they will show what they already have to play. This is the positive, ”Simeone settled.
Koke and Griezmann are emerging as the Praetorians of Cholo before a team that counts their four games in the Premier League with many other victories. Some of them, such as those achieved or Burnley (0-1) on the bell and without brightness, but with mature equipment and well trained by Arne Slot. “What I like most about Liverpool is its verticality, its very fast transitions and the interpretation of playing simple. They immediately display the extremes. They do not need many passes to reach the area and that simplicity, which is difficult and some do not see it, speaks of the voracity of a team with very good soccer players and a coach who did an extraordinary course,” Simeone warned.
Slot began to bury the complex of being the successor of Jürgen Klopp with the conquest of the last Premier League and has enriched a squad indicated as one of the most complete in Europe. Slot has not yet made Alexander Isak debut, the Norwegian scorer with whom Liverpool ended up bursting the signing market paying to Aston Villa 150 million euros. The astronomical figure accumulates to what was disbursed by the German medium Florian Wirtz (125), the French striker Ekitiké (90), the Dutch right side Frimpong (40) and by the left side Serbio Kerkez (45).
“The last time I played against Atlético directing Feyenoord, Griezmann made me woke me up at night thinking about how well he did. The important thing is that I now have players who can do what Griezmann did that night. I love my Feyenoord players, but that night they were not able to compete against Griezmann,” Slot said.
The Dutch coach was seen annoying with the continuous references to the millions of euros spent by his club this summer. “There are commentators who prefer other teams that do not stop talking about the 485 million euros we spend, although they do not say the almost 300 million we receive in sales. If we want to reinforce the template we need to spend that money so that they are at the level. If we sold Szoboszlai, it would cost 100 million too,” Slot defended.
Before that arsenal and the notable absences, Atlético will have complicated to confirm the plan and improvement he offered before Villarreal. “I stay with the improvement of the team in the associative game. Griezmann moved very well and we were precise in the pass. This is key to continuing to win games,” said Central Robin Le Normand.
The intention of pressing above that Atlético exhibited before Marcelino’s team does not have it so clear to Le Normand before such a powerful rival and such an intimidating scenario. Liverpool is a set that usually dominates its rivals for the amount of individual duels that its players win, either in the one against one or in the disputes of the loose balls that generate so many transitions in current football. “Today the duels are very important, the differences in the matches mark if you manage to win them because many spaces are opened in front when you recover the ball. That is why it is good to know how to play with low lines near your area, you leave less space to the rival and you have more ahead to launch counterattacks. In modern football you have to be versatile,” added Le Normand.
Everything indicates that Atlético will have to throw tonight of his old script and the old guard.
