In the third round of the 21/22 Champions League group stage, Atletico Madrid hosted the Reds Liverpool. The current situation in Group B is very favorable for both teams, With Liverpool leading with 6 points, Atletico second in the group with 4 points, Porto only accumulating 1 point, and AC Milan, who performed well last season, finished at the bottom with 0 points.
21/22 Champions League group stage atletico vs Liverpool
Although the grid returned to Atletico, but Atletico's record this season has not changed dramatically, the current 8-5 wins and 2 draws have accumulated 17 points, 3 points behind the top of the table Real Sociedad, scoring 11 goals and conceding 6 goals, the team's attack declined, the defense is still firmly supported in the first echelon, Su ya 8 games 4 goals to lead the team's top scorer list, Correa, Lemar followed, Thomas Lemar 5 games 2 assists is the team's transport captain.
Atletico prepares
Due to the impact of the epidemic, the entire Atletico team was rested due to the postponement of the away match in Granada last weekend, after all, Incoque, Oblak, Griezmann, Carrasco, Herrera, Trippier, DePaolo, Correa, Jimenez and Luis Suarez have all participated in the international competition in the past two weeks. In addition, at home to Barca at the beginning of the league, Suarez, Phoenix and Lemar led the team to meet Barca, and Lemar and Su ya assisted each other to win 2:0 against Barca, but after the game, Savage's left thigh muscle injury and Llorente's right thigh muscle injury need to be recovered.
Atletico beat Barca 2-0
In terms of personnel, Cunha, Savage and Jimenez will miss this game, while Llorente will have to see how well he recovers from injury.
Liverpool arrives in Madrid
The Reds released Wijnaldum, Shaqiri and other tough players in the new season, and only introduced Konat, which still had some impact on the thickness of the team. The league is currently the only team in the Premier League that has not tasted defeat, scoring 22 goals and conceding 6 goals, attacking and defending in the first echelon of the Premier League, Pharaoh still leads the Premier League top scorer list with 7 goals and Vardy, Mane, Firmino and Jota have a good performance. It is worth mentioning that Liverpool's away attack is strong, and several top scorers have performed well.
Liverpool prepare
Like Atletico, Liverpool's main players have almost all participated in international matches, but last weekend's league away to Watford, the players quickly entered the form, first Salah assisted Mane in 8 minutes to complete the 100th goal of the Premier League, followed by Firmino's hat-trick in the first and second half, and Salah's 1 assist and 1 goal also showed his good competitive state.
Watford 0:5 Liverpool, Mane scored his 100th Premier League goal
This campaign is far away from Madrid, and Jones and Thiago will be absent in terms of personnel, and Alisson and Fabinho will be suspected.
The two teams met in the 19/20 Champions League knockout round, the two legs were 1:1 into overtime, although Firmino took the lead in the extra time stage, but failed to defend to the end, Llorente overtime stage of the second degree + assist directly announced the Reds' elimination. Two years later, the two teams will see each other in the group stage, the Australian index will be flat and half of the high start, the market continues to slide to the middle index, from the competitive state of the Reds are more outstanding, but from the historical record point of view, Atletico has a psychological advantage, comprehensive analysis recommended score 2:1/2:2.