He Atletico Madrid He returned to work on Tuesday after the three-day break he gave Diego Simeone with the squad taking advantage of the league break caused by national team commitments. The rojiblanco team has already started preparing for Sunday’s match Legs in the Metropolitano, where he will try to maintain the dynamics of the game and the results of the previous weeks.
This will be the first of 12 that the colchoneros will face before the end of the championship, as they do not compete in more tournaments. This weekend starts for them a ‘League of 12’ where the goal is clear: finish as high as possible, that is, fight for second place in real Madrid.
Something that was a chimera at the beginning of the year but over the weeks has become a more than real possibility. In mid-February Coke, captain of Atlético, publicly raised this goal. A ‘crazy’ bet that is no longer the case. So, the rojiblanco team is 13 points behind the eternal rival. After six days, he was able to reduce the difference by eight units. Or what is the same, Madrid got only five points from Atlético. Of course, the specific goal average favors the whites, who won the Metropolitano and drew the Bernabéu derby.
Achieving runner-up will be important not only on a sporting level, but also in an economic aspect, because the difference between being second or third could mean between seven and ten million eurossomething to remember.
What is left for Atlético
With 12 remaining games for Atlético, six were in the Metropolitano, where the team recovered its pulse, and six at home, where the results were positive throughout the course. He Legs will be the first rival of the colchoneros, who will play later in Vallecas against Ray. Next weekend they will receive the Almeria and then comes one of the appointments marked in red on the calendar, the rivalry against Barcelona at Camp Nou.
Three days later, as there will be one day a week, another special day: the celebration of Atlético’s 120th anniversary, on April 26, against Majorca. Then there will be a trip to Valladolid (the latter means the conquest of the 20/21 League) and another clash this week at the Metropolitano, against Cádiz. They will visit the Elchewhich at that time could become Second if it continues in this trend of results and they receive Osasuna.
The closing of the championship will be aúpa. After visiting the spanishyou will arrive at the coliseum on Avenida de Luis Aragonés the Real societyto finish LaLiga by visiting La Cerámica to face the match villarreal.
What is left for Real Madrid
For its part, Real Madrid, still mired in the Champions League and the Copa del Rey (playing the second leg of the semifinal next week at Camp Nou) will start this 12-year League with two home games, which accepting Valladolid and then on villarreal. Then he will play Cádizclash that remains in the middle of the tie against Chelsea. Then they will go through the Bernabéu Celta, Almería, Getafe, Rayo and Athletic on the final day, while Ancelotti’s men had to visit Girona, Real Sociedad, Valencia and Seville. Seven games at home and five away, although the exits don’t look easy on paper.
Source: La Verdad
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