SEVILLE – ATLETICO MADRID | Saturday 6:30pm
It is clear that a different start to the season was expected from both teams. Lopetegui’s Sevilla are currently 15th in the table with only five points. Simeone’s Atletico Madrid is a little better with ten points and is in seventh place. In short, this situation in the Spanish league is not normal, and the moment is also delicate for the coaches. Especially that of the Andalusians, who according to rumours are in the balance and could pay the price for their disappointing start. The calendar certainly does not help Sevilla, who, however, gave some signs of recovery before the break: two draws in a row and first the away win at the Espanyol ground. In short, something is moving.
In contrast to what is happening inside the Colchoneros: two defeats against Bayer Leverkusen and Real Madrid and never the feeling, in both games, that they could have a say. Especially disappointing was the Champions League exit against the Germans: always in difficulty Simeone’s team, perennially at the mercy of a weaker opponent on paper. And because so many players left with the national teams, the Cholo could not do all that great a job.
Diego Simeone
The Prediction
As we have told you before, and quoting Buffon’s words, ‘better two wounded than one dead’: in short, a challenge that could end in a draw as the stakes are decidedly high. In this way Lopetegui could save his bench and the Cholo put aside the double defeat.
Sevilla v Atletico Madrid matchday squad
- Sevilla (4-2-3-1): Bono; Carmona, Gudelj, Salas, Acuna; Jordan, Fernando; Navas, Isco, Torres; Mir.
- ATLERICO MADRID (3-5-2): Oblak; Felipe, Witsel, Mandava; Llorente, de Paul, Kondogbia, Koke, Carrasco; Morata, Joao Felix.
POSSIBLE RESULT: 1-1
