Saturday, February 26, 2011

Atletico Madrid-Sevilla ... High voltage duel with an eye on Europe

Atletico Madrid and Sevilla played a match tomorrow live in Europe at the Vicente Calderon, the scene of a great rivalry game and high tension in recent years between two teams at peak times this year, with both eliminated from the competition and far inland of the Champions League. Not a good year for all Madrid, who has spent six months of brilliant Super Cup title to a minor position in the league, the ninth, but not for the Andalusian team, which stayed out of Europe Wednesday League and walking for seventh place in the standings.

Both need a strong reaction in the final of the competition. They mark their distance from the Champions League places, twelve points for Sevilla and thirteen for Atletico, and adrift of fifth or sixth place, despite that, this season, seventh place to give ticket Europa League. That is the most urgent challenge, climb the table positions for the Madrid team, which closed last Saturday a run of four successive defeats with victory at Zaragoza (0-1), a result that confidence has been recharged to the template and the crisis has eased in recent weeks rojiblanco.

Atletico, who have won just two of its eleven official crash of 2011, faces an important test tomorrow to measure their improvement to a direct rival in Europe, in a duel in which Quique Sanchez Flores will be without Diego Forlan, has entered the call after overcoming an ankle sprain. The attacker will be in the starting line on Saturday, which will form the front with Argentine Aguero, who scored the victory last week in La Romareda, with Jose Antonio Reyes and Jorge Resurrection "Koke" who play his second straight game as a starter, in the bands left and right, respectively.

The media center will be for the Portuguese Tiago Mendes and Raul Garcia, while Uruguay's Diego Godin, after serving sentence in Zaragoza, back to central defense in place of Alvaro Dominguez, the Colombian Luis Perea will be your companion in that position; Czech Tomas Ujfalusi and Antonio López will occupy the side and David de Gea will be in goal.

Elias Mendes, Mario Suárez and Fran Merida, however, remained outside, technical decision, the call for Quique, which has no low by injury or a match penalty for the first time in eleven games played, 2011. Opposite is the Seville, which will arrive in Madrid in low spirits after European elimination against Porto on Wednesday, although the victory at the Estadio do Dragao allows Andalusian think that success is possible.

Undermined the credibility and the project touched all Seville coach Gregorio Manzano hopes his players respond to the "challenge" and begin a new series of victories that would achieve the European target. However, the Oporto left party, in addition to the deletion, the template consequences for Sevilla, as Manzano will be without injured striker Frederick Kanoute with while Nrdi Romaric, Andrés Palop and Martín Cáceres are too low to continue discomfort.

Even so, the technician can align an eleven "full guarantees" to seek victory in the Vicente Calderon, so Escudé Fazio and presented as central couple, the winter signings Medel and Rakitic in midfield and Luis Negredo Fabiano and up front. - Probable teams: Atletico Madrid: De Gea, Ujfalusi, Perea, Godin, Antonio Lopez, Reyes, Tiago, Raul Garcia, Koke, Forlan and Kun Aguero.

Sevilla: Javi Varas, Sergio Sánchez, Fazio, Escude, Fernando Navarro, Jesus Navas, Medel, Rakitic, Perotti, Negredo and Luis Fabiano. Referee: Mateu Lahoz (Committee Valenciano). Stadium: Vicente Calderon. Time: 11:00 pm Central Time Mexico.

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