De Paul celebrates a goal in the last tournament. Photo EFE / Juan Herrero
The Spanish league kicked off this weekend and will end with three games on Monday, including Diego Simeone’s Atlético de Madrid. Cholo’s team, which has national team players among its squad, visits Getafe.
The mattress team will play at Madrid’s Alfonso Pérez Coliseum from 2.30pm in Argentina, broadcast on DirecTV Sports.
The players of the Argentine national team Rodrigo De Paul, Ángel Correa and Nahuel Molina, who have recently arrived in the current market from Udinese in Italy, are part of their squad.
However, Cholo has serious losses: those of central defenders José María Giménez and Felipe Monteiro. Neither the first, with “severe tonsillitis”, nor the other, who had already missed the four preseason friendlies due to a tendonitis of the knee which he is already finalizing the set-up, are available for the first day of the championship.
According to the EFE agency, Cholo will debut Witsel and Nahuel Molina and Álvaro Morata, Saúl Ñíguez and Ivo Grbic have reappeared on the list, after their respective assignments with Juventus, Chelsea and Lille.
goalkeeper Jan Oblak; defenders Stefan Savic, Reinildo Mandava, Mario Hermoso, Renan Lodi and Marco Moreno; midfielders Marcos Llorente, Koke Resurrección, Rodrigo de Paul, Geoffrey Kondogbia and Thomas Lemar; the winger Yannick Carrasco; and forwards Ángel Correa, Joao Félix, Antoine Griezmann and Matheus Cunha complete Simeone’s 21-player squad.
With information from EFE and Télam
Source: Clarin
