ANDamong the multiple cabals that exist in Atlético for the two remaining days of Champions a rival appears with whom they have been stiff in recent clashes. We are talking, of course, about Liverpool. The same team that they dethroned just before Covid stopped football. The same team that has beaten the rojiblancos twice this season and has placed them on the precipice of a possible elimination.
Hence, in some sectors of Atlético there is fear that the Liverpool lift your foot in the duel before him Port with the argument that they have already done their homework and are first in the group. Incidentally, they would harm a group, that of Simeone, which seems more rival than Porto in the face of a new duel from the quarterfinals, if they both slip into the top eight in Europe.
The fact that there is growing tension between both teams, personified in Klopp’s errands that Simeone He returned talking about the codes that he does respect, he feeds some suspicions that until Wednesday night will not be resolved from one side or the other. The intensity with which the Anfield men come out, as soon as they play the money for the victory, will mark the future of a group in which the rojiblancos can even be left out this same day if they do not win at Milan and their fears are fulfilled with a Portuguese victory on English territory.
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Logic dictates, taking into account that those of Klopp They are also immersed in the fight for the Premier, that they give rest to some of their most decisive players, with Salah and Mané as his two most unbalancing men as Atlético suffered in their own flesh.
This does not mean, in any case, that the rojiblancos think that the Liverpool let them win to harm Cholo’s men, but they do lower the piston (overwhelming in this group stage where they average more than three goals per duel), which could complicate the scenario even more to a Athletic that if he wins both games he will still qualify regardless of what the rivals do.
