Tebas’ hell mainly affects Atlético, who will play the derby against Real Madrid on Sunday without almost any training. The team arrived in Barajas after three in the morning and the players immediately fell asleep. A recovery session is planned for today and Simeone will barely be able to work on Saturday, but he will have to be very careful not to overload the players. Everything could have been arranged if the match against Celta, as requested by the club, had been played on Wednesday and not Thursday at nine o’clock in the evening.
The League’s treatment of Atlético could not have been more humiliating. He will have no less than 48 hours less rest than his rival who, in addition, played at home on Tuesday, so he did not have to face any travel, and even less in mid-morning, as it is arrived yesterday with the red. and the white expedition, who landed literally exhausted and full of colds at the airport after their flight from Galicia, since the match ended after eleven in the evening.
Aware of this, and even if the official message was different, the truth is that Simeone distributed charges with all the intention in the world. This is why after the break, despite the terrible image given in the first half, the coach endured the changes as long as he could and the first to rest was captain Koke, who he will need Sunday. This is why De Paul, still a little limping, only entered the field in the 65th minute, in order to risk as little as possible.
In these 72 hours before the derby, it will barely be possible to prepare for the match from a tactical point of view. A little strategic action in training on Saturday and nothing else. The obsession now is to recover the players who had to play the 90 minutes in Vigo, like Oblak, Le Normand, Giménez, Reinildo, Llorente, Gallagher or Griezmann because under normal conditions, all of them will start on Sunday. Gallagher has received several blows and will be in difficulty because he is counted on against Real Madrid, in a match in which the squad could be made up of Oblak, Llorente, Le Normand, Giménez, Reinildo, Riquelme, De Paul, Koke, Gallagher , Julian and Griezmann.
