Facing the team at the bottom of the table still lost the game, Atletico's fate can be said to be very ill-fated, in terms of the content of the entire game, in fact, the attack and defense system has now improved a lot, in particular, to fill in the left side of Reinildo's vacancies instantly also be filled, but it is the fate of not counting the goal that was scored in the previous game, through the system to calculate the chances of obtaining the goal only 6%, but it is not possible to be in the goal; woe is not only the fate, the later part of the game, Cunha, the striker suffered a serious knee injury again, is estimated to be out of action for a period of time. In the latter part of the game, Atletico's striker Cunha suffered a serious knee injury, and is estimated to be out of action for 2~3 months.
Luckily for this game Griezmann has now paid to follow to Osasuna, but having to play five games in two weeks with so many injuries will be the most important watershed for Atletico to grab four this season.
In response to this situation, Simeone has also made lineup changes to save a fight next Tuesday.
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1.Carrasco returns from Covid-19 roster
2. Push Marcus Llorente up to wingback.
3. Greizmann's regression
Carrasco for this season Atletico's offense is a proper threat, basically the left side of the breakthrough is to rely on Carrasco one to complete, defense now although there is now a very solid Reinildo, but Carrasco use speed to return to the defense to chase people the same as Atletico need to be one of the key points of full-time defense.
It is worth mentioning that due to
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Facing Porto in the group stage, Carrasco received a red card for a malicious foul, which prevented him from facing Porto twice in the round of 16.
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Simeone grabbed Carrasco for the first game after Covid-19's recovery not only to get him back into the system quickly, but also so that he could give Lemar, Kondogbia, and others a good rest.
The right side of the midfield has the same substitution, Llorente started in the right midfield for the first time this season, and Vrsaljko was placed behind him. Perhaps the reason for such a scheduling is to strengthen the constipation of the offense in the first half of the previous rounds of the competition. Moreover, this round dePaul will not be able to play due to his red card in the previous round, so it is necessary to have a person in the attacking line to match up with the outposts, and this is a great responsibility to give to Llorente, who has been outstanding in the matchups with João Félix and Suárez in the last year. The only thing to keep in mind is that Atletico are facing a midweek match against
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For the competition, it will be necessary for Llorente to go to the right guard position, thus his playing time should not be organized for long.
Finally, Griezmann's return is sure to be exciting (think of the renegade he was a season ago). Due to Cunha's injury, Atletico's need for a striker to force the ball is completely unfulfilled, and Griezmann, the formation specialist that Simeone has carefully coached, is sure to have a very outstanding game. And the recent practice film can also be seen, compared to the beginning of the season when we have doubts about his integration into the team, Griezmann now and the team and the happy situation, completely eliminated the fans worried about the problem.
This game Giménez and Savi?together start, not only can make up for the lack of backfield out of the ball, Giménez can go to the end of the churning and scrambling back to the speed of the defense can also be more stable. Indeed, this game of the two also have their own role, Savi? In the back of a single long pass character, this game also made 11 long passes, to help Atletico Madrid in the midfield instability of the situation of stable output.
Of course, Simeone's tactical organization of the defense players is not limited to this, although the right back in this game is not Llorente but Vrasljko, but Cholo still placed Vrasljko near the opponent's defense, to open up the space on the side of the road, and Llorente moved to the middle of the road to defend the two strikers.
The play at the 4-minute mark saw this happen, as Savi? used a long pass to find Vrsaljko, who was literally running parallel to the opposing backline, and the latter received the ball and passed it to Llorente in the center of the field to start the attack.
Vrsaljko pressing on the sideline, Llorente moving up the middle
