Atlético has announced the call for 23 players for tonight's game against Alavés. It is almost identical to the latest Simeone lists with a novelty: Felipe returns to the group, who has not been able to play since the competition resumed. On the other hand, Mario Hermoso was left out due to injury. Felipe participated at a good pace in the last training sessions of Atlético and is already one more to compete. The Brazilian suffered a “muscle strain in the quadriceps of the left leg” and he has missed these four encounters. A setback for Cholo, for whomra their most used defense, although Giménez, Savic and Hermoso have performed at a high level.
Mario Hermoso, For his part, he had some discomfort from the game against Levante.
He did not take part in the team's Friday training and medical tests have revealed that he has a “Muscle injury in the adductor region of the left thigh”.
The rest of the list are the usual ones. Vrsaljko still out while recovering from the arthroscopy to which he was subjected five weeks ago and the summons are completed by the youth squad Manu Sánchez and Toni Moya.
He Atlético de Madrid receive the Alaves in search of establishing itself even more in that third place after the draw of Sevilla. Simeone remains faithful in his idea of making rotations and introduces several changes to the Atlético official lineup for this match. One of them is the one on the right side, where Kieran Trippier returns instead of Santiago Arias.
Atlético official lineup: Oblak; Trippier, Savic, Giménez, Lodi; Correa, Koke, Thomas, Saúl; Joao Félix and Morata.
In defense too Giménez returns to the detriment of Mario Hermoso, who has been dropped from the list at the last minute due to a muscle injury. Cholo did not want to risk Felipe despite Savic being ready, and if he saw a yellow card he would miss the Camp Nou game next Tuesday. Marcos Llorente and Koke, two important players in this team, are in the same situation.
Renan Lodi will not rest and will continue one more game on the left flank of the defense. In the center of the field, Correa enters the place of the well-known Llorente, while Koke will start at the start of the four line with Saúl Ñíguez and Thomas Partey. The attack point will be occupied by the Portuguese crack Joao Félix and Álvaro Morata.
The rojiblancos they want to add the three points to reach the duel against Barcelona settled in the positions of the Champions League. For that reason, Cholo has decided to continue with their rotations and reserve some important players for this clash.
