translated from Spanish: Spanish Super Cup: Barcelona de Vidal and Atlético clash in attractive key

FC Barcelona and Atletico Madrid face each other on Thursday (16:00 hours from Chile) in the second semi-final of the new 2020 Spanish Super Cup, which is played at the King Abdullah Sports City in Yeda, Saudi Arabia, in a close pulse of access the final and not have traveled in vain to the distant Arab country. The Blaugranas arrive at the meeting as champions of the last Spanish league, while the ‘mattressers’ are invited as runners-up to it. In this start of season no team is shining, and at 90 minutes, away from home, the pulse is presented very open. While it is true that in Atletico Madrid there will be no Diego Costa or Thomas Lemar, due to injury, and that in Barca they will not be for the same reason neither Marc-André Ter Stegen, Arthur Melo nor Ousmane Dembélé, the clash will be high intensity, morbid and with a high expectation ge in the host country of this Supercopa.La presence since minute 1 of the Chilean midfielder Arturo Vidal is a real unknown, since Ernesto Valverde has used it regularly in the second times this season, although in his last performances he has proven to be a decisive and deserving piece of a starter t-shirt. For now, in the match of the first round of the Spanish league, Barca took all three points of Wanda Metropolitano thanks to a solitary goal by Leo Messi in the 86th minute. A triumph of Barca that has been recurring in the last clashes between the two. Atletico Barca has not won since the lap of the quarter-finals of the 2016 Champions League, and since then nine matches have been played with a balance of five Barca victories and four draws. A statistic that Atletico, in Arabia, wants to break. Those of Diego Pablo Simeone want to take advantage of the invitation to fight for a title in the showcases. Don’t let Diego Costa or Thomas Lemar be here, it opens the doors to a 4-4-2 with Morata and Joao Felix on tip. In addition, Koke aims to be recovered, as well as Stefan Savic and Sime Vrsaljko, who might have options to be in eleven or play some minute. In Barca, league champion and reigning Champions of the Spanish Super Cup, the most outstanding bass is that of Marc-André Ter Stegen. The goalkeeper, hurt by the knee, no longer played in the derby against RCD Espanyol at Cornell (2-2), where Neto had an irregular role while taking up the game. Upstairs, without Dembélé, and with Arthur as low in the middle of the field, there could be changes. It seems that the trident is fixed, with Antoine Griezmann returning to play against Atletico alongside Messi and Suarez, while Ivan Rakitic and Sergi Roberto take a place in the medular. POSSIBLE ALIGNMENTS. FC BARCELONA: Net; Semedo, Piqué, Lenglet, Jordi Alba; Busquets, Rakitic (Vidal), De Jong; Messi, Suarez and Griezmann.ATLÉTICO DE MADRID: Oblak; Trippier, Philip, Giménez, Vrsaljko; Correa, Saul, Herrera, Koke; Morata and Joao Felix.

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