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The Athletic needs to trace back the 1-0 of Leverkusen

The Athletic needs to trace back the 1-0 of Leverkusen

Published:16/03/2015 - 10:02h

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The Athletic of Madrid will play it to him everything against the Bayer Leverkusen in a European night of high tension in the Calderón. Diego Simeone goes back to ask maximum concentration to the players and to the fans to trace back the goal against of the gone (1-0)

The Athletic of Madrid will play an authentic final this Tuesday in the League of Champions against the Bayer Leverkusen. The 1 to 0 against of the party of gone will force to the team of Diego Simeone to resort to his high pressure, because it plays the pass to chambers, because the triumph is the only road and by the intensity that characterises to the German group. The Argentinian technician, arengando again to the fans, already has warned that expects that it do not produce "neither an alone minute of silence" in the Calderón.

The "colchoneros" did a party of gone disappointing and the turn does not arrive them in the best moment: only they have won a party and have empatado three of the six more recent. It will have to show the most powerful facet of his personality to trace back the eliminatory.

The factor that more in favour plays of the Athletic is the fact that it faces the commitment home. In the Champions, has won the three crashes contested (10 goals in favour and any against). Another is his potential, further of the recent irregularity and of the important drops with that will face the duel: the Portuguese Tiago Mendes and the Uruguayan Godín, both by sanction, in addition to Saúl Ñíguez, precisely lesionado in the gone contested in Germany.

Besides, now it is warned of the difficulty of the opponent, that the day of the draw of eighth seemed affordable. The strength with which the Bayer Leverkusen deployed the 90 minutes of the gone desbordó by moments to the team rojiblanco, that suffered the vertigo of the contragolpe and the massive attacks of the rival. Simeone Already has ultimado the details of the party and his eleven, in which it foresees the return of the Croatian Mandzukic after three parties. The responsibility to mark also recaerá in the French Griezmann and will complete the attack with Fernando Torres like spare in the bench, in an alignment in which it will go back the Turkish Burn Turan, and repeats Koke, essential for the team.

In front, the Bayer Leverkusen, that goleó the past Friday to the Stuttgart and that arrives with the hope to have sufficient with the income achieved in the gone. It chains five triumphs been still in the last three weeks. The trainer, Roger Schmidt, however, has warned against an excess of confidence and has declared the duel of the Calderón like a final in which his team is not the favourite: "Still we have not achieved at all and we follow without being favourite". Also it thinks that the Athletic will show a different face to the one of the BayArena, where was concentrated in defending and treat to keep the goal to zero. "Now they will not be able to simply leave that the minutes run; they will have to attack", it advanced Schmidt.

The Monaco, with everything in favour against the Arsenal


The another eliminatory of the eighth of final that will remain resolved this Tuesday is the Monaco-Arsenal. The monegasque team is, on the paper, the big favourite to happen to the quarter-finals after the clear 1 to 3 that achieved in the party of gone. For the Monaco, happen to fourth would be the greater success in the competition in the last eleven years. The challenge for the Arsenal is capital because never in the history of the competition a team that there is need less two goals to trace back an eliminatory has achieved to classify. For the French technician of the Arsenal, Arsene Wenger, the party will be special because it will go back to the place where achieved his first successes like trainer.

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