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He Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid<\/strong> receives this Tuesday at the Metropolitano Tottenham <\/strong>English in the first leg of the round of 16 of the Champions League<\/strong>. The paradox of the draw has meant that the three Spanish teams face three English teams, with different luck; but for the colchoneros it has not been the worst.<\/p>\n \t\tSimeone does not see himself as a favorite against Tottenham and praises the superior pace of the Premier<\/span><\/span>\n\t<\/div>\n This time the goddess of fortune wanted to give the red and white team another revenge. There is only one precedent between Atl\u00e9tico and Tottenham: the final of the 1963 European Cup Winners’ Cup<\/strong>which the Londoners won clearly (5-1). They then became the first English team in a UEFA competition, since they resisted entering when they were founded.<\/p>\n More than 60 years have passed and the colchoneros now have a more competitive version than before, since they have become one of the regulars in the Champions League qualifiers, while the Tottenham <\/strong>look for your best version after end of 2019<\/strong> in Madrid, which ended up losing against Liverpool.<\/p>\n The English were classified in the ‘top 8’ in fourth position, but they are in a critical situation in the Premier League<\/strong>where they are just one point above the relegation places. The Croatian coach Igor Tudor<\/strong>which arrived in February as a replacement for Thomas Frank<\/strong>has failed to win in any of its three games against Arsenal, Fulham and Crystal Palace.<\/p>\n The team was already on a negative streak before Frank’s departure, with a defeat against Manchester United<\/strong> y Newcastle<\/strong>which led to the dismissal of the Danish coach. <\/p>\n On the other hand, Atl\u00e9tico arrives on a positive streak with three league wins and the elimination of Bruges in the Champions League<\/strong>. In the Copa del Rey semi-finals they fell 3-0 in the second leg at the Camp Nou against Bar\u00e7a, but they made the 4-0 win in the first leg count to celebrate their return to a final. In short, good news despite the setback.<\/p>\n In addition to the historical debt with Tottenham, Diego Simeone’s men have it this season with the Premier teams, since they lost against Liverpool (3-2) <\/strong>on the first day and 4-0 against Arsenal <\/strong>on day 3.<\/p>\n Apart from the story, the match brings another reunion with the midfielder Connor Gallaghe<\/strong>r, transferred from Atl\u00e9tico to Tottenham. Also from the Spanish side Pedro Porro<\/strong>not because of its red-and-white past, but because of its origin. Both are available, but six other players are not among Tudor’s list of casualties. <\/p>\n The ones that Tottenham does have are the Brazilian Richarlison <\/strong>and the french First Class<\/strong> for the attack, two of its main assets. At Atl\u00e9tico there could be the return of Pablo Barrios<\/strong> once he got over his injury. With the return of the youth squad, he has his entire squad available.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" He Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid receives this Tuesday at the Metropolitano Tottenham English in the first<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Simeone recovers Barrios: all available<\/h2>\n