It was so much joy to know the context. The first injury of the course is there: the youth team Pablo Barrios, suffering from a torn muscle, will be out for the next three weeks. He missed his Champions League debut and, of course,The derby against Real Madrid at the Metropolitano. Barrios, who had to abandon the U-21 team’s training camp, has had a spectacular start to the season after winning the Olympic medal with Spain in Paris. Now it’s time to return to dry dock.
This drop is a huge setback for Simeone, that he will be forced to invent something to solve the problem because he has few midfielders after the failure of attempts to integrate an additional footballer in this area on the transfer market. Right away Only De Paul, Koke and Gallagher remain.which will force him to resort again to Marcos Llorente or to recover the French for the cause Lemarwho has not played for a year. That, of course, assumes that De Paul and Gallagher return without any setbacks from their respective concentrations with Argentina and England.
Fate has also wanted to be particularly capricious with Atlético and show them how poorly the midfield was planned. The next league game will be on Saturday against Valencia, where he plays Javi Guerra, with whom he had reached an agreement that he later cancelled, while his next commitment will be in the Champions League against Leipzig, in whose squad the Belgian is. Vermeerenloaned to the German team by the rojiblancos. Either would be great for him now. Simeone.
And risking such a long season with only four midfielders, one of whom will be 33 in January, is truly reckless and certainly will have to be corrected in the winter market. Injuries, illnesses or cards are circumstances that affect all teams and Atlético will not be an exception. It could very well be that on several occasions SImeone must withdraw the reserve teamand not only to end the call, but even to fill in the gaps in the programming left empty.
Pablo Barrios is now faced with his third injury in less than a year. The young player, who turned 21 in June, fell twice last season, one of them due to a torn meniscus that required surgerywhich kept him away from the playing fields for two months.
