Atletico Madrid coach, Diego Simeone has tested positive for COVID-19, the club announced on Saturday. 50-year-old Simeone, is isolated at home and has not presented symptoms. Atletico’s squad and staff returned early from a pre-season trip to Los Angeles de San Rafael just outside Madrid after a test on Thursday came back positive. Further tests […]
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Atletico Madrid ended Liverpool’s defence of the Champions League on Wednesday as Marcos Llorente’s double and Alvaro Morata’s late strike stunned Anfield with a 3-2 win after extra time to progress 4-2 on aggregate. The holders looked to have ended Atletico’s dogged resistence when Roberto Firmino put them ahead in the tie after Georginio Wijnaldum’s […]
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Harry Kane and Son Heung-min both struck twice as Tottenham Hotspur rekindled their Champions League hopes with a club record 5-0 thrashing of Red Star Belgrade on Tuesday. After suffering their heaviest home defeat in Europe on matchday two, a 7-2 humiliation by Bayern Munich, they responded to claim their biggest win in the Champions […]
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Atletico Madrid made it two wins out of two as Vitolo scored in the second half to secure a hard-fought 1-0 La Liga victory at Leganes on Sunday. Atletico had never won in Spain’s top-flight at their fellow Madrid outfit’s Butarque stadium but Vitolo’s strike ensured they continued their impressive early season form. New signing […]
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Since Spanish champions FC Barcelona announced the signing of striker Antoine Griezmann on Friday for 120 million euros (£107 million) from Atletico Madrid, the 2018/2019 La Liga runners-up have been fuming. They said the Catalan club had not paid enough to trigger the player’s release clause. The 28-year-old France forward rejected a move to FC […]
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Antoine Griezmann will sign for Barcelona this summer, Atletico Madrid’s CEO, Gil Martin, has confirmed. According to him, the club knew Griezmann would be joining their LaLiga rivals since March. “We know since last March that Griezmann is going to Barcelona,” he told to Sport. It was reported last month, that Griezmann informed Atletico that […]
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Barcelona went 11 points clear at the top of La Liga on Saturday when Luis Suarez and Lionel Messi scored twice in two minutes to break the resistance of 10-man Atletico Madrid. Diego Costa saw red in the 28th minute at Camp Nou after insulting referee Gil Manzano but while Atletico held on for almost […]
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Real Madrid barged their way back into the Spanish La Liga title race with a 3-1 victory over Atletico Madrid in a feisty derby at the Wanda Metropolitano on Saturday. Casemiro, Sergio Ramos and Gareth Bale’s strikes inflicted Atletico Madrid’s first home defeat of the season across all competitions and moved the European champions up […]
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Barcelona slipped up for the third time in a week but stay top of La Liga after Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid cancelled each other out at the Santiago Bernabeu on Saturday. Real and Atletico began a pulsating derby less than three hours after Barca had scrambled to a 1-1 draw at home to Athletic […]
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Saul Niguez and Koke scored in extra time as Atletico Madrid fought back to beat city rivals Real Madrid 4-2 and win the UEFA Super Cup in Tallinn on Wednesday, as Julen Lopetegui got off to a losing start with the European champions. Real had earlier looked set to win the trophy in their first […]
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