Diego Simeoncoach of Atlético de Madrid, finalized this Saturday the preparation of his team for the direct duel for the Champions League against Betis without Koke Resurrectionwho will be absent for the third consecutive game in the rojiblanco team, who also does not have for the game this Sunday Stefan Savić, Beautiful Mario, Geoffrey Kondogbia, Matheus cunha and Daniel Wass.
Although he began his progressive return to the group on both Thursday and Friday (this Saturday he did not even jump onto the pitch with the rest of his teammates), the captain is not yet ready to return to the competition, so he will miss the match against the Verdiblanco team, just as it happened against Manchester United and Celta, due to the muscle injury suffered two weeks ago in the match against Osasuna at El Sadar.
Simeone He has five more casualties for the game against Betis: savicsanctioned for a cycle of five yellow cards and injured; Geoffrey Kondogbia and Mario Handsome, due to muscular ailments; and Matheus Cunha and Daniel Wassboth out of competition due to sprains of the internal lateral ligament of the right knee.
None of the five, as Kokeparticipated in the morning session this Saturday and will not be part of the expedition to Seville, where Simeone will have 16 eligible players from the first team and where it will present a starting eleven made up of Jan Oblak; Sime Vrsaljko, Jose Maria Gimenez, Philip Monteiro, reinildo Mandava, Renan Lodi; Mark Llorente, Hector Herrera, Rodrigo dePaul; joao felix and Angel Strapas he tried last Wednesday and insisted on this Saturday.