Draw A lucky draw ... less for Barça
It is difficult for a story between two teams to have so many edges in such a short time.
Atlético and Chelsea met for the first time in October 2009, in a Champions League group stage duel that cost
Abel Resino
(4-0), then
Atletico
manager, their place, and said goodbye, until the hype has brought them together again in the round of 16, in autumn (almost winter) 2017, the only time that Simeone has said goodbye to the great continental competition early.
Even today, the blues, where
Morata
and
Hazard
played then
, are the only team that has won a Champions League match at the Metropolitano (1-2).
It was, curiously, the day the new rojiblanco stadium had its premiere in Europe.
There is not a single episode that has tiptoed past: that Super Cup in Monaco, where Atlético embroidered football and Falcao overflowed with a formidable triplet (1-4).
The return of
Fernando Torres
to Vicente Calderón, after seven years of waiting (0-0).
Or that magical athletic night at Stamford Bridge, where they sealed the ticket to the final in Lisbon, tracing Torres's own initial goal (1-3).
Seven duels in total for a wrinkle-free rivalry.
A battle between the two entities that has also been experienced in the offices, as Madrid and London have been an airlift of blue and red-and-white players.
Getting
Diego Costa back
, traded in the summer of 2014, was worse than a toothache.
Getting
Courtois
, on loan from the English, to play the Champions League semi-final, also cost him.
Filipe Luis
made the round trip and
Morata
, in January 2019, was the last transfer so far.
This Chelsea, now commanded by
Frank Lampard
, scorer in that first duel with Atlético in 2009, has spent 250 million this summer between five players (
Havertz
cost 80 and
Werner
, 50), after leaving behind a two-window penalty without signing for irregularities in the hiring of minors.
The whole of the English capital travels through the upper area of the Premier (three points behind the leader) and has qualified first after taking the Pizjuán on
Giroud's
back
.
"In Liverpool we go through small details and hopefully it will be the same against Chelsea", confides Koke.
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