The most entertaining match in football this season will resume tonight at 9:30 PM CEST. Atletico Madrid host Barcelona in the Metropolitano for a place in the Copa del Rey-final against Real Madrid, with the first stage on 4-4. The previous three games between the two this season have yielded 17 goals, each with a victory.
Atletico Madrid is without Angel Correa through suspension, but also have a clean health river for the game, while Diego Simeone has confirmed that Copa goalkeeper Juan Musso will remain for Jan Oblak. Sport predicts that the surprise will be Cesar Azpilicueta for Conor Gallagher and Samuel Lino, where Marcos Llorente moves to midfield.
Reinildo Mandava is also tipped to get the nod over Javi Galan left-back, where Giuliano Simeone goes to the left and Clement Lenglet for Robin Le Normand. MD also believes that this will be the case and predicts exactly the same Atletico team.
Both stores have exactly the same side for Barcelona, where Gavi plays the role that is usually reserved for the injured Dani Olmo. That is despite a late report that Gavi and Robert Lewandowski will be omitted by Hansi Flick.
Pau Cubarsi and Raphinha are ready to return to the Barcelona who are starting XI for the first time since picking up on international service, whereby film confirmed that both were completely fit. According to Olmo, Marc Casado, Marc Bernal, Marc-Andre ter Stegen and Andreas Christensen are on the Letel List.
There seems to be a good chance that the game will be decided late, with all three previous matches with result -changing goals in the last five minutes or stop time. Barcelona demonstrably had their worst match against Atletico the previous time-out in mid-March, but achieved their only victory, a without Frenkie de Jong in midfield. From that game, the most important change for Atletico is probably the presence of Jose Maria Gimenez with Lenglet instead of Le Normand.
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