I have often said that it is not so important which players are missing, but who are playing and I still agree with me. However the absentees of Atletico Madrid today are a lot more important than they might feel at first glance.

Look at the chart below where individual Atletico players are evaluated in terms of attacking progressiveness.

我经常说哪些球员缺席并不重要，重要的是谁在参赛，我仍然同意我的观点。然而，今天马德里竞技缺席的球员比他们乍一看时所感觉的要重要得多。

看看下面的图表，这是球员参与进攻的评估

All top-3 players are today, and even if the replacements are at least decent footballers these absentees must show in the build-up play of Atletico.

Another thing to be remembered is that Eibar are extremely high-pressing team who get the most recoveries high on the pitch, and all of this might lead to defensive confusion at Atletico as the players have played the most are not there! Saul Niguez is the main piece today in the build-up.

Atletico are the big favourites to win the league and they have been excellent all season, but they are also overperforming both defensively and offensively, and if it is going to stop momentarily there is no likelier place for it to happen than today.

A look at Eibar.

Their striker Enrich got sentenced in court this week for taking video of sex without consent, but it should not bother the team as they have known it for some - it was the reason they freed him from his captain role - and he is not that important on the pitch anyway.

Last 7 Eibar results and xG

现在的前三名球员都是，即使顶替的球员至少都是不错的球员，这些缺阵球员也必须在马竞的比赛中表现出来。

另一件值得记住的事情是，埃瓦尔是一支非常有压迫性的球队，他们在场上的得分最高，所有这些都可能会导致马竞的防守混乱，因为马竞反击中的核心球员将缺席!萨乌尔·尼格斯是今天攻防转换中的主要人物。

马竞是最有希望赢得联赛冠军的球队，他们在整个赛季都表现出色，但他们在防守和进攻上都表现出色，如果这一切能暂时停止，可能就会是今天。

看看埃瓦尔。

他们的前锋里奇本周因未经同意拍摄性爱视频而被法庭判决，但这并不会影响球队，因为他们知道这一点——这就是他们取消他队长一职的原因——而且他在球场上并不那么重要。

埃瓦尔近7场比赛的结果和预期数据：

In the total table Eibar are 15th with 19 points, they could have 22, and they are a midtable team in my books.

In the last 7 games there are mixed results and performances, but some of them have been outstanding and show that on a good day they are tough to beat even for the strongest of teams. The best player so far has clearly been left winger Bryan Gil who has been injured lately, but is set to return today.

Yes, Luis Suarez and Joao Felix can punish any team, but I see Eibar creating a lot of problems for Diego Simeone, and I would not not be surprised to see Eibar winning this!

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在总积分榜上，埃瓦尔以19分排名第15，他们本可以有22分，在我看来他们是排名中游的球队。

在过去的7场比赛中，比赛结果和表现喜忧参半，但其中一些表现非常出色，即使是最强的球队也很难击败他们。目前为止最好的球员显然是最近受伤的左边锋布莱恩·吉尔，但他将在今天复出。

是的，路易斯·苏亚雷斯和若昂·费利克斯可以攻克任何球队，但我看到埃瓦尔会给迭戈·西蒙尼的球队制造了很多麻烦，看到埃瓦尔赢得这场比赛我一点也不惊讶!

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