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Atlético predicted XI: Simeone's back three for Levante clash
Three centre-backs, Llorente and Barrios in midfield, and Julián alongside Jonathan David up front
Nacho Donado reads out the line-up while Rubén Uría notes it down in his notebook
Nacho Donado reveals the line-up tested at the Cerro del Espino training ground ahead of Levante vs Atlético. A very attacking XI, with doubts over whether Simeone had Saturday or Bayern in mind.
Rubén Uría asks the question everyone wants answered: what will Atlético's starting XI be at the Ciudad de Valencia? Before reading it out, Nacho Donado warns that he does not know whether what was tested in training was for Levante or for Tuesday's match against Bayern. Donado has his doubts and believes the XI doing the rounds, the one that was rehearsed, could be intended for the Germans, with a different side lining up against Levante at the Ciudad de Valencia.
The line-up Simeone rehearsed was as follows: Oblak in goal; a back three of Pubill, Cuti Romero and Hancko; Giuliano at right wing-back and Grimaldo on the left; Llorente and Pablo Barrios in central midfield; Baena and Julián behind Jonathan David.
Uría sees it as a very attacking XI and asks whether Kangin Lee is the one to miss out. Donado confirms it and adds that, with Llorente in midfield, Hjulmand would not play either, and he is precisely the one who will be unavailable against Bayern.
Rubén admits he expected to see Hjulmand start against Levante, but Simeone has decided otherwise.