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Atlético de Madrid and Liverpool face this Tuesday in the first leg of the round of 16 of the Champions League . The match begins at 9:00 p.m. (Spanish peninsular time) and is played at the Wanda Metropolitano, the stadium where the English team was proclaimed European champion against Tottenham in June last year. Cholo Simeone has chosen Morata, already recovered from his injury, to form the lead with Correa. Lemar will accompany Koke, Saul and Thomas in the middle. The Reds go out with their starting trident - Mané, Salah and Firmino - and with Joe Gomez along with Van Dijk on the axis of defense. The rojiblancos, who go through a bad run of results and sensations with a single victory in the last seven games, face at a delicate moment the leader of the Premier League, which is completing a virtually immaculate season. The Jürgen Klopp have only lost three of the 42 games they have played so far, and in the league they have won every game except the one that drew against Manchester United in Old Trafford. Follow the match here live - if you can't see it, click here -:
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Pressure after loss. If Atlético has been an uncomfortable team for rivals these years with their pressure and their defense, Jürgen Kloop's Liverpool is one of the most intense teams in Europe: it dominates several records, from counterattack to static attack, and He has record numbers, with 43 consecutive games without losing in the Premier League.
02/18/2020 20:57
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The equipment on the grass of the Wanda Metropolitano already warms up. In about 20 minutes the first round of the Champions League between Atlético and Liverpool begins. In the photograph, which is by Javier Soriano (AFP), Alisson, Liverpool goalkeeper, performs warm-up exercises tonight at Atlético Stadium.
02/18/2020 20:40
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Almost ten years without facing an official match. The last time that Atlético was measured at Liverpool was in April 2010. They met in the semifinals of the Europa League and the rojiblancos managed to go to the final for the value of home goals after winning 1-0 at Vicente Calderón and lose 2-1 in Anfield. Both teams were then without their two current coaches, Diego Pablo Simeone and Jürgen Klopp, without whom the current performance of these clubs is not understood. Simeone, among other titles and two Champions League finals, won the League in the 2013/14 season, and Klopp will do it this year with Liverpool - he has 25 points of difference over second place - a club that does not achieve a successful league since 1990, when the Premier League did not exist as such.
02/18/2020 20:33
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Lemar, the great novelty of eleven. The ownership of the French attacker is the biggest surprise of Cholo Simeone's lineup. The former Monaco is not having a good season: in the League, where he has not scored a single goal or given any assistance, he has only started in nine games and was replaced in all of them. However, the Argentine coach has preferred to put him in the middle to accompany three midfielders: Thomas, Saul and Koke.
02/18/2020 20:12
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Carrasco, Vitolo and Diego Costa, on the bench. Simeone has chosen Morata, who has just recovered from an injury but already played minutes last Friday against Valencia, to accompany in attack on Correa, one of the most fit players in the team. They will wait on the bench Vitolo, who started four of the last five league games; Carrasco, which is the winter signing of the rojiblancos to reinforce the attack; and Diego Costa, who has not played minutes in an official match for more than three months.
02/18/2020 20:03
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Lemar and Morata, headlines in the eleven of Atlético. Cholo Simeone gives ownership to Lemar tonight against Liverpool. The French attacker did not play from the beginning of December 22, when Atlético faced Betis League at home. In addition, Simeone has chosen Morata to accompany Correa in attack, that is, Diego Costa will wait on the bench. This is Atlético's full eleven: Oblak; Vrsaljko, Savic, Felipe, Lodi; Koke, Thomas, Saul, Lemar; Correa and Morata.
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02/18/2020 19:52
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Liverpool's eleven starter: Alisson, Alexander-Arnold, Joe Gomez, Van Dijk, Robertson, Fabinho, Henderson, Wijnaldum, Mané, Salah and Firmino. Jürgen Klopp, therefore, bets on Joe Gomez and leaves Joel Matip on the bench, who has been a starter for much of the season but returns from an injury. He also plays his offensive trident (Sané, Salah and Firmino), one of the best in Europe. We will have to see how the defense of Atlético develops against him.
https://twitter.com/LFC/status/1229838810302816257
02/18/2020 19:47
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The Santiago Segurola column: The red storm arrives in Madrid . Klopp has put together a team that plays a swinging drum, made up of players capable of interpreting their coach's ideology with a fanatic conviction. Facing Liverpool is equivalent to crossing a burning field. Read the Segurola text here: http://cort.as/-Uvyn
02/18/2020 19:43
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Atletico is already in the Wanda Metropolitano. The rojiblancos are already in their stadium. In about an hour they will go to the grass to warm up to play Liverpool for the first leg of the round of 16 at 9:00 p.m. (Spanish peninsular time).
https://twitter.com/Atleti/status/1229835568294617089
02/18/2020 19:33
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A key tie for the Alético. Eliminated from the Copa del Rey and quarter-finals in the League, 13 points behind Real Madrid, the leader, the rojiblancos play much of the season in the knockout round of the Champions League against Liverpool, the current champion of the competition. Atleti arrives at the game with Diego Costa and Morata, his two nines, recovered. However, the Hispanic-Brazilian has not had minutes in an official game since November and his fitness is a mystery.
02/18/2020 19:30
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The Alético against everything. Today's appointment against Liverpool invites you to describe an Atlético against everything. Against their ills and against the set that marks the paradigm of the current panorama through a game that contains a great variety of records and resources. Read the Ladislao J. Moñino match preview here : http://cort.as/-Uvxy
02/18/2020 19:21
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Good afternoon. We started the live on the first leg of the round of 16 of the Champions League between Atlético de Madrid and Liverpool which is played on Tuesday in the Wanda Metropolitano from 21.00 (Spanish peninsular time). The meeting comes for the rojiblancos at a bad time, in the midst of a game and results crisis: the pupils of Cholo Simeone have only won a game of the last seven. Liverpool, however, appears in the crash launched and as a clear favorite. Jürgen Klopp's are undisputed leaders of the Premier League, where they have only conceded a draw in the 26 games they have played.
02/18/2020 19:12
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