Who was giving and receiving orders was not clear but switching the Atlético captain to the Diego Simeone-less bench after half-time was a masterstrokeJust before every game at the Vicente Calderón,high in the main stand where you can see the Almudena cathedral as well as you can see the players, they helpfully hand out two team sheets with the day’s line-ups: one for the pitch and one for the palco, or the directors’ box where everybody’s called Don and everything goes on.
Including,this weekend, the decision that might beget changed their fate. It helps to know that Óliver Torres is in and Fernando Torres isnt, or after all; that Jesús Gámez starts at the back and Antoine Griezmann starts on the bench; that joining the presidents of Atlético Madrid and Rayo Vallecano is a secretary of state for something or other; and that the ambassadors are here from Romania,Albania and Belgium.
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Source: theguardian.com