Atletico Madrid face a La Liga journey throughout the capital to tackle Getafe tomorrow because the title race tightens up.
Los Rojiblancos can edge as much as prime spot with a win after Barcelona’s weekend conflict with Osasuna was postponed.
Diego Simeone’s facet are only a level behind La Blaugrana in second place – with Actual Madrid three factors off the summit – who host Rayo Vallecano simply after Atletico Madrid’s sport.
The match comes as a part of an enormous week for Atletico Madrid, as they welcome Los Blancos to the Estadio Metropolitano for his or her UEFA Champions League final 16 second leg on March 12, trailing 2-1 from the primary sport.
That’s swiftly adopted by an important house league sport towards Barcelona on March 16 which might have a decisive influence on the title race.
Forward of the Getafe match, Simeone just isn’t anticipated to make main adjustments, with switches in defence anticipated to stability his squad.
Simeone will ask nearly all of his star names to play on together with attacking duo Julian Alvarez and Antoine Griezmann regardless of the latter needing to handle his sport time.
Nevertheless, the principle concern on Alvarez focuses on the likelihood for suspension, with the Argentinian at the moment on 4 yellow playing cards in league motion.
If he picks up a reserving towards Getafe, he’ll incur an on the spot one sport league ban, and miss out towards Barcelona.
Alvarez opened the scoring towards Barcelona of their current Copa del Rey semi ultimate second leg and he could be a key absence towards Hansi Flick’s group.
Nevertheless, as per reviews from Mundo Deportivo, that could be a danger Simeone is keen to take attributable to his significance to the group this season.
The 25-year-old has netted 22 targets throughout all competitions in his debut marketing campaign after becoming a member of from Manchester Metropolis final summer time together with 10 in La Liga motion.