The point is not to be impressed, hold your gaze and try to turn your own few virtues into more transcendent than the many others. Celta visit an Atlético de Madrid tonight at the Metropolitano that is walking firmly towards the League title but wants to leave it even more on track before the Champions League forces it to distribute attentions and forces. Despite whoever it may be, even a pandemic that for this game leaves him without some of his footballers – Mario Hermoso, Joao Félix and Moussa Dembélé– but with the same intention. This mattress consistency also counts, this season, with the presence above a Luis Suárez who wants to win a League with other colors, after those achieved with Barcelona. And that sharpens a team that if it sinned in something it was blunt. That is to say, that he accumulates all the virtues and is willing to optimize them to the maximum. Celta will be measured, then, against the best possible rival in this First Division of the pandemic. He will do so after stopping the losing streak with two draws in recent days, in which his face has improved but without reaching the full smile of the yearned for December. At least, the celestial coach, Eduardo Coudet, will be able to draw on his eleven base today in those weeks of great results, with the exception of the presence of Aarón Martín on the left side instead of the already eccletic Lucas Olaza. In the previous two days, a greater fluidity in the exit of the ball has been missed and to alleviate this defect Denis Suárez returns. The one from Salceda retakes command of the midfield well escorted from behind by Renato Tapia. And ahead, Manuel Agudo ‘Nolito’ and Brais Méndez seem unmovable for now, at least until the Argentine Augusto Solari acquires a little more rhythm. In the rear, Rubén Blanco will be among the three suits, with the quartet in front formed by Hugo Mallo, Néstor Araujo, Jeison Murillo and the mentioned Aarón Martín. At the top, the Santi Mina fight will accompany the genius of Iago Aspas, somewhat more shot after having already reappeared the previous day. Eduardo Coudet maintains that the idea of the game will not vary, no matter how much the best team in the League is in front. A block that can feel just as comfortable with or without the ball, an extreme that the sky blue has not yet reached.
In recent times, Diego Simeone opts for a defense of three centrals, taking advantage of Hermoso’s mobility. Without him, it seems that he will maintain the drawing with two strange lanes like Marcos Llorente or Saúl Ñíguez. In the center of the field, the former Valencian player Kondogbia aims to make his league debut. And above Luis Suárez with Correa.n