Javier Aguirre and Diego Simeone, two of the coaches with the most personality in LaLiga, will face each other this weekend with opposite objectives in the general classification
There are “eight lives” that remain for the Mallorca to avoid relegation and the first will be played this Saturday (4:15 p.m.) in the visit of the Atletico Madridwho is about to reach the halfway point of the “league of 14” that was proposed a month and a half ago, in which he has added six consecutive victories.
The Mexican Javier Aguirre -who makes his debut at the Visit Mallorca Estadi after debuting with defeat in Getafe- and the Argentine Diego Pablo Simeon They are two of the coaches with the most personality in LaLiga Santander. His ability to generate strong ideas is infinite. As much as to rename what remains of the championship.
Yes for the Mexican coach of the Mallorca The eight days ahead are “eight lives” and they cannot “disregard any”, not even the one in which they receive the reigning champion -whom they defeated in the first leg at the Wanda Metropolitano (1-2)-; for the Argentine coach Athletic his “league of 14” has allowed him to sign the best streak of the course and settle in ‘Champions’ positions.
longs for the ‘Basque‘ Aguirre that his idea imposes itself as the one of the ‘cholos‘ in the red and white squad, since the Mallorca chains seven consecutive defeats, of which six claimed the position of Luis García Plaza on the bench and caused the arrival of Aguirre, who suffered the last.
The Mexican has returned to the Santander League with the aim of rescuing the Mallorca. He took the reins with the team one point from salvation (26), although now there are two to eight days left for the end of the championship, after the defeat at the Alfonso Pérez Coliseum and Cádiz’s draw in Valencia.
also sucks Simeone to impose his plan, so effective in LaLiga Santander as the source of controversy after Tuesday’s Champions League match against Manchester City (1-0), when the Athletic he came to place two lines of five players behind the ball. “We cannot assess what people may think, we have to focus on this league of 14”, he reiterated this Friday.
That ‘league of 14’ in which the Athletic counts its six games for victories -some convincing, others very misleading, such as the 4-1 against Alavés on the last day- reaches its halfway mark this Saturday, with the rojiblanco team not only installed in the ‘Champions’ zone with four points over the Betis, but fighting for second place in a triple tie at 57 points with Barcelona (which has one less game) and Sevilla.
A cross between the top and the bottom of the table that is preceded in the local mood by the echoes of the controversy of the defeat in Getafe. This week there has been more talk on the island about the expulsion of Argentine central defender Franco Russo, who left the team with ten in the 63rd minute, than about Atlético’s visit
The Mallorca presented an appeal to the second yellow card that Russo saw, but the Competition Committee dismissed it, even acknowledging that it is not “possible” to determine if the ball hit the right arm that the South American center-back had extended or the left one, which It was completely attached to the body.
The Mallorcan fans will express their anger this Saturday at the decisions of the referee Mateu Lahoz with whistles and handkerchiefs before and after the start of the match, as announced on social networks.
In the purely sporting, the drop in Franco Russo in the defense axis will cover it Antonio Raillowhich next to the side James Costa, will be under the command of Javier Aguirre after serving both a game of suspension. The Slovak center-back also returns Martin Valjentlow last minute due to discomfort in Getafe, but will not be Save Seville due to muscular problems, according to what Aguirre advanced this Friday.
By the Athletic, three casualties are certain and one more is likely. Due to injury, the Mexican will not be Hector Herrera and the Uruguayan Jose Maria Gimenez, for the third and second consecutive game respectively. The Argentinian Angel Strap neither, because he has to serve his second and last game of sanction for the red card received against Rayo.
montenegrin Stefan Savic He has finally entered the call, despite his discomfort in his left foot that has prevented him from completing the last two training sessions with the group.
If the Balkan is not from the game, Simeone could choose to center the Croatian Sime Vrsaljko and delay to Mark Llorente to the right lane. Felipe Monteiro and Reinildo Mandava would complete the trio of central defenders, while the main question is who will be the left winger, Renan Lodi or Yannick Carrasco.
In the center of the field the captain would return Jorge Resurrection ‘Koke’ after his sanction against Alavés, accompanied by Geoffrey Kondogbia Y Thomas Lemar.
In front, Luis Suarez has exercised among the starters, but Simeone He has insisted on “supporting” the current line when asked about the Charrúa, which points to the continuity of the couple Antoine Griezmann–joao felixwith the Portuguese in boiling: accumulates seven goals and two assists in nine games.
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