Oscar Herencia, CEO of Metlife Iberia, and Enrique Cerezo publicly presented the agreement between the insurer and the Atletico academy in an event attended by Mario Suarez and Koke along with numerous other youth players and prominent personalities from the club.

The first team returned to work after the victory in Valladolid. Those who did not start in the José Zorrilla began to prepare on the artificial turf like the one that will be played on in the Luzhniki Stadium.

Diego Costa was a constant threat to Valladolid defence.

Diego Godin stressed the importance of this victory against Valladolid away from Calderon.

Diego Pablo Simeone was pleased by the overwhelming victory of Atletico Madrid in Valladolid

A great victory for Atletico Madrid in a difficult away ground where no one had previously won by three goals.

Atletico Madrid trained on field 4 of the Sports City behind closed doors before leaving in the afternoon on a train bound for Valladolid.

Sergio Asenjo appeared before the media at the end of the first leg of the knockout phase of the UEFA Europa League

Kurban Berdyev was greeted with applause by Russian journalists in the press room at the Vicente Calderon

Atletico travel to Russia next week needing to overcome the 0-2 first-leg deficit.