Atletico Madrid - Alaves
Atletico Madrid - Alaves
Atletico Madrid welcome Alaves at the stadium "Vicente Calderon" in Madrid today. This is the first match between the teams of the new campaign, and a judge will be Iglesias Villanueva. Go to the game undoubtedly they that this season will try to overtake hegemony in Spain - Barcelona and Real Madrid.
Atletico Madrid played a very good and memorable season, but again lacked a little to beat its main competitors in the face of Barca and Real. Atletico finished appropriately to the third position in the table for the 2015/2016 season, with only 3 points separating them from the first Barcelona.
In the Champions League they demonstrated excellent game, but again had mal chance in the final, where for the second time in three seasons of the prestigious tournament lost the final to Real Madrid, this time after a penalty shootout.
During the summer, Atletico docked several new names, but the whole team keep their core players and missing loud transfers. In came Kevin Gameyro team from Seville, Nicholas Gaytan Benfica, Diogo Zhota of Brazilian Paso and Varsalko from Sassuolo.
Coach of the team is Argentine Mauricio Pellegrino, who has experience in managing compositions such as Estudiantes and Indepediente. During the summer, Alaves done pretty transfers, suggesting that the club owners want at any cost team to keep its place among the best. The composition of this season will see Deyverson from Levante Ibay Gomez from Athletic Bilbao, Nenad Krstic from Sampdoria, Aleksandar Pantic Villarreal and others.
The teams Atletico Madrid and Alaves met for the last time back in 2005 when this game ended 1-1 and the second game of the season, Atletico won 0-1 as guests. Atletico Madrid managed to outplay Alaves last Calderon in '99 with minimum 1-0, but today the situation is now completely different.