Atlético: Félix starts touching the ball and could make it to the Granada CF match
Portuguese João Félix, who has missed the last six matches due to an ankle sprain, and Croatian Sime Vrsaljko, who has been out since last March due to a knee injury, are already training on the field with the Atlético de Madrid squad in their respective recovery processes, although still separate from the group.
Both players also did ball exercises during the last training of the week for Atlético de Madrid, who will take advantage of the league break to rest on Saturday and Sunday, waiting for their nine internationals next week: Jan Oblak, Kieran Trippier, Felipe Monteiro, Renan Lodi, Saúl Ñíguez, Thomas Partey, Álvaro Morata, Santiago Arias, and Thomas Lemar.
In addition to those nine players, Diego Costa, who has a cervical disc hernia and is pending surgery to solve that condition, and José María Giménez, who has missed the last five matches of his team due to a muscle injury suffered against Bayer Leverkusen, did not train either.
Among these circumstances, only eight first-team players completed the session: Marcos Llorente, Víctor Machín 'Vitolo', Mario Hermoso, Koke Resurrección, Ivan Saponjic, Stefan Savic, Héctor Herrera, and Ángel Correa, in addition to Antonio Adán, who finished training early with specific goalkeeper work.