Tiago Cardoso Mendes addressed the media prior to the Champions first leg match against Barcelona. Trusting the team’s good work, the midfield expects a very “complicated” match against a rival “used to this kind of fixtures.

The Atlético player answered the media in the newsroom, where he commented about the Champions’ qualifying round against Barcelona Football Club.

The Atlético fullback appeared for the media in the newsroom, where he talked about the Champions League match against Barcelona Football Club.

Javi Manquillo, recovering after his injury, and Raúl García, who has to serve a one-match suspension, are the only absences of a list formed by 20 players.

Both Spanish internationals analyse an unprecedented collision until now in the European competition, after the three ties between both teams this season.

Diego Pablo Simeone praised his team’s attitude, in the newsroom. Despite having started with a goal down, the Atlético team “knew how to overcome it” to win a fixture that allows us to be sole leaders of the League.

Atlético de Madrid landed a decisive victory in the Leage in San Mamés, defeating a feisty Athletic who started the score with a goal from Muniain. Diego Costa tied before the interval and Koke decided the score aginst the lions in the beginning of the second half. The leader didn’t fail and came out of The Cathedral strengthened.

Diego Pablo Simeone called 19 players to undertake one of the most difficult games of the season in San Mamés, against Athletic de Bilbao. Filipe Luis is back after his sanction for 5 yellow cards.

Diego Pablo Simeone admitted in the newsroom that the team will have to be “very attentive” against Athletic because of the big potential of a rival “that thrives at home”.

Diego Pablo Simeone emphasized in the newsroom “the effort of the players” in a “difficult and hard” match for the team, with his arguments, “they deserved to win the game”.