Geta plays Europe against his particular Everest

The landscape has changed a lot since the new normality in the League, since Atlético left the long break behind Getafe and now leads them by 12 points. While the mattresses are already classified for the Champions League and only have the league podium as their minor objective, the Azulones have decreased until their classification for Europe is in danger. It is one of those clashes to which the bad-thinking will always aim in the event of a local victory, something that the ‘Geta’ has never achieved against the Cholo team. 16 duels with 14 victories for Atlético, two draws and 31-0 in terms of goals.

“Not having won Atlético de Simeone does not have to frustrate us,” said Pepe Bordalás, a manager from Getafe who is among the candidates to head to Valencia next year. “I am sure that very few teams want to play against Getafe, because of their ability to support an idea, which may or may not like it, but they support it, and these teams are always respected,” Cholo Simeone said. The Argentine assumes that there is always a first time in victories, especially thinking about that dream Champions that resists him, but also for defeats.

Facing Atlético’s tranquility, more concerned with optimally reaching that final phase of the maximum continental competition in Lisbon, Getafe presents itself immersed in a bad dynamic that has led it to add only 8 points out of 27 possible since the competition resumed in mid-June. Fight between five teams for two places for the Europa League. If they expire, they will repeat a success that the club and local authorities have asked not to be held so as not to call that beast named Covid-19.

For ‘Geta’, Atlético is like Everest. He has not beaten him since November 2011, when he beat a rival in crisis 3-2, still with Goyo Manzano on his bench. Since then, neither Luis García, Cosmin Contra, Pablo Franco, Fran Escribá or Bordalás have been able to score a goal for the ‘cholitos’. For this appointment, the local coach can not count on Damián Suárez, the tough Uruguayan right-back, nor with the Basque central defender Etxeita, both sanctioned. But he recovers striker Ángel and defender Nyom.

Meanwhile, Atlético will not be able to count on this match with the Portuguese Joao Félix, who will chain his third game of loss due to a bone edema in his left ankle, nor with the Croatian side Sime Vrsaljko, unpublished since the return of the competition for his problem on the left knee. In addition, the central Mario Hermoso is penalized for two games after the red against Betis.