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Atletico Madrid are stage on factors with Barcelona forward of the weekend’s showdown and have been in advantageous kind in current weeks.
Contemplating that they’ve a recreation in hand over the Catalans, they’ll nearly go six factors away from the Blaugrana with a win at Montjuic.
Los Rojiblancos are thus getting ready arduous for the large conflict forward and skilled earlier right now at Wanda Metropolitano as a part of the identical.
As revealed by Mundo Deportivo, nevertheless, the Atletico Madrid supervisor Diego Simeone experimented with a novelty within the session.
A change in assault
The Spanish outlet additional that Simeone had a full squad at his disposal earlier right now after the return of Alexander Sorloth from a small setback and thus had limitless choices to experiment with the eleven.
He opted, nevertheless, to make a single change within the lineup and changed Samu Lino on the left wing with the Englishman Conor Gallagher.
Conor Gallagher to start out for Atletico vs Barcelona? (Picture by Florencia Tan Jun/Getty Pictures)
The concept behind the tweak was easy – to counter Barcelona’s dominance in midfield.
With Pedri, Marc Casado and Dani Olmo, the Catalans have loved supremacy in the course of the park most of the time and are even stacked on the bench with Fermin Lopez, Gavi, Frenkie de Jong and Pablo Torre to select from.
Simeone’s thought with Gallagher’s introduction, thus, is to usher in a participant who affords extra defensive contributions than his counterpart Lino who’s the extra common starter.
It stays to be seen who in the end begins on Atletico Madrid’s left wing on the night time for they’ll look to place stress on Jules Kounde who shall be out of his depth with out Lamine Yamal to mix with.
