Date: Sunday, November 8
Time: 5.15 p.m. GMT / 12.15 p.m. ET
Venue: Estadio Vicente Calderon, Madrid
Goal. Atletico in training this season that is the word most often heard. "I want to score." "Finalize". "Auctioned". Simeone requested. Ortega insists Profe. They seek all exercises. They try all players. The goal has become the obsession of Atletico. Behind the team it is good, with strong as ever, but, above, curious, in the year in which more goal has signed, medium dry walk. Atletico no loose ends. Brand and locks back, does not bite to get the second, tranquility, and forget: it takes 10 league matches and only one, the second, made more than two goals: it was against Sevilla, who won 0- 3; it was still August.Since the Cholo is on the bench, never so little Atletico scored (15 goals). And we need as eating. Especially after the last two games because, when it seemed that it had been difficult (the beginning of the season against all upstairs) and that what was coming was a breeze, Atletico will and ties in Riazor and goes and ties ( incomprehensibly) in Astana. If we do not win at Sporting could start growing thumbtacks on seats Calderon. And better not.
The expected goal and stand to order. Simeone looking revolutionize goal and eleven to find, with Carrasco and Correa, but coach pondered yesterday that Jackson who played outside home (with Griezmann) and thus reserved to the Argentine for the wow factor. Which it is sure to play Savic, Gimenez's injury. It will be his second game in League and against Getafe and showed that this shirt does not fit at all, great.
Opposite is the Sporting (still a game in as.com), which, incidentally, is not much left over that walketh goal. It is a team that wants to play the ball, that is not enclosed, seeking rapid transitions and intensity, Abelardo says, the mirror is the Atleti. His star is Halilovic, on loan from Barcelona playmaker, to Griezmann, is free to move wherever. Sergio is the order in midfield and Jony, overflowing. Cuellar sends back. And a lot. The former Atletico squad returns become a goalkeeper at the cost of a world do that much-needed Cholo: a goal, or two, or (better) three.
28 years of the last victory of Sporting in First
The last time the First Sporting won at the Calderon, only ten players in the squad of Atletico were born: Moya, Filipe, Godin, Gamez, Juanfran, Siqueira, Tiago, Jackson and Torres. And it happened 28 years ago, in 1987, the house went ahead with a goal from Landáburu and outsiders rallied with goals from Eloy and Joaquin Villa. Then the two teams have met 14 times in First at the Calderon and Madrid won 12 and drew only two. The newest Atlético-Sporting lived Calderon was in 2011-12. And Atletico won. And by a landslide. 4-0.