QIt was not going to be an easy season you knew from the moment you returned to training at the end of the summer. The Covid does not understand protocols. Risks can be minimized, but it is impossible to stand apart from the rest of society. With the incidence soaring in practically all the Autonomous Communities, the clubs are experiencing weeks of maximum risk. It wasn’t going to be him Atlantic an exception. If last week it was Mario Hermoso and Yannick Carrasco who tested positive for Covid-19, this week it was the turn of Joao Flix.
Three important casualties for what comes to the Atlantic in the month of February, not only in the immediate games if not in the future ones, especially considering the state of form in which those affected usually return, you just have to look back to remember the Sure post Covid and compare it with the current one. Bad moment to lose the rhythm of training and competition with the eliminatory of Champions in front of Chelsea just around the corner.
The rojiblancos are not new in these matters. Since the competition returned there in June, a good handful of Atltico footballers have been affected, including the master. Since returning from confinement, the Cholo They are the best team of LaLiga, curious seeing how many times they have had to overcome casualties caused by the Covid. Doing a count, we get up to 12 members of the current staff plus two who are no longer there, who have gone through the same situation of having to isolate themselves at their homes. Those who are no longer Arias Y Diego Costa they ventured a difficult start to the season as they presented positive pcr upon return from vacation. Correa Y Vrsajjko they already missed the last Champions League match last year and Renan Lodi he was reinstated last after confinement on a positive as well.
This season the situation has not improved, and Atltico has suffered even when its players were concentrated with their national teams as was the case with Luis Surez Y Torreira after testing positive in the concentration of Uruguay. In addition to them: Gimnez, Grbic, Simeone himself, up to those who are currently on leave, Joao, Hermoso and Carrasco, have tested positive. He has already repeated it several times Cholo, the last one just a few days ago in the previous one in front of the Cdiz: “We have to live with those situations, we move on knowing that we have to live with them all season.” One more enemy to face a season in which to date, all obstacles have been saved.