Atletico Madrid are more likely to be lacking eight first-team gamers for Tuesday’s second leg of the Champions League in opposition to Manchester United.
Yannick Carrasco will probably be ineligible for choice as soon as once more owing to a European suspension, whereas seven different gamers are out with damage considerations earlier than the Outdated Trafford conflict.
Sime Vrsaljko, Mario Hermoso, Geoffrey Kondogbia, Matheus Cunha, and Daniel Wass are all anticipated to overlook the Manchester encounter resulting from accidents.
In the meantime, central defender Jose Gimenez suffered a calf pressure throughout Atletico Madrid’s 2-1 La Liga victory in opposition to Cadiz on Friday, which is able to maintain him out for the following three weeks.
Atletico, nonetheless, have been bolstered by the return of Koke from damage, whereas Angel Correa has additionally recovered from a health setback forward of the second leg.
The last-16 encounter is balanced on a knife-edge following a 1-1 draw within the first leg at Wanda Metropolitano, with Anthony Elanga coming off the substitute to equalize for Manchester United after Joao Felix had opened the scoring.
Antoine Griezmann and Luis Suarez are additionally eligible for Tuesday’s match at Outdated Trafford.
