Athletic Vs. Chelsea: what they say about the hope
The last results, the baggage of the team in current Champions League, the mental state of the players, the bets houses and up to Quique Sánchez Flower they point to that this night (20:45, Goal TV) the Athletic one of Madrid does not have anything that to do before the leader of the Premier. The technician has dropped that the principal target is to be still alive in Europe, opening the door to the Europe League. A target that, because of the seen in the last weeks, one takes a fancy more nearby than the classification eighth one of end of maximum competition. Nevertheless, the party of this night fulfills all the requisites so that a team in the comatose state gets up two hundred puslaciones per minute and happens of being the prey to the hunter. So much respect gives the cadre blue like the reaction that the rojiblancos could have in the most difficult week of the whole period.
From the Quique words it is possible to extract another good reading: the Atleti has much that to gain and little than to lose before an authentic predator that does not belong to those who are moved to pity precisely of the weakest. The Chelsea comes Madrid with quite more a gift that could not be in the party of Stamford Bridge: Didier Drogba. 4-0 of the going it does not seem to have calmed the avidity of the Londoners and after they verified the prettinesses themselves rojiblancas (“the Athletic one has problems” it was a quartering to the unison of the British press) they land in Vicente Calderón to offer another recital. The first tembleque is of easy answer after there read eleven that Carlo Ancelotti will present this night: Cech; Ivanovic, Carvalho, Terry, Ferreira; Ballack, Essien, Deco, Lampard; Anelka and Drogba.
Nevertheless, I want that they remember what is said about the hope. And if it is still it is because it will not be the first one, not the last time, that an Athletic badly injured one feels like resuscitating before the strongest rival. If the blood covers still the veins of the players, this night it has set off. Without thinking about the Saturday derbi, because that will be another history than so much there can result the colophon of a big holiday as a lethal shot in the temple.
Quique will repeat eleven that it lost in San Mamés and that an improvement chink left of previously seen. More together lines, more backward defense, more speed with the ball and a major offensive baggage, although without fortune. It is rumored that the technician of Madrid might reserve Kun Agüero thinking about the party of Saturday, the gesture that would be negative for the interests rojiblancos and that would not leave in good place Quique. To rest already there will be time, since just this week is not a moment of milongas. That the Athletic one suffers an illness that will drag until the end of period it is a fact; but the victory this night might eliminate some symptom to keep on walking along the tightrope with a little more of balance.
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In NdF | athletic Gift in Stamford Bridge
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