Jonathan Wilson
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I mean, I think I'd have Atleti favourites, actually, I think.
I know they're 25 points off the top, but they've kind of jacked in the league.
I mean, they'd lost four in a row maybe before the weekend.
But they've been a funny team this season, Atletico, that they've played Barcelona six times, they've beaten them twice, but somehow they seem to have won the ones they needed to win.
And I think Griezmann and Julian Alvarez are probably going to be the best two forwards on the pitch.
So given, I think, how tense Arsenal would be and how good Simeone sides are at playing on that, yeah, I'm not saying it's 100% Atletico win, but I'd probably have them 55-45 favourites.
Any strong thoughts, Baz?
Yeah, absolutely.
And it's really hard to tell, partly because they've essentially been playing with no pressure this season.
But also, because they went out of both cups at the earliest possible opportunity and didn't have Europe, they haven't in the entire season played a team who's played less football than them.
They've been as fresh or fresher than every single opponent they've played.
And you look at how shattered, for instance, Arsenal look.
I mean, not just Arsenal, but Arsenal, I think, really is showing the fatigue.
Well, of course, United don't show that because they've played 40 games at the end of the season.
So how do you possibly judge?
And the only way you can judge is if you're on the inside and you hope some directors have somehow got a handle on what players think, on what players are doing, get a sense of how he is around the dressing room, around the club.
That's all you can base your decision on.
If you were trying to create a situation where the decision is impossible, you couldn't have made it better than this.
He hasn't been so brilliant that you think you've got to give him a job.
It's not like they're going out playing sparkling football, winning every game 4-5-6-0.