UEFA Match: PSV Eindhoven vs Atletico Madrid

The Philips of Eindhoven, PSV and strength at home stadium tested Wednesday Atletico Madrid and his great ambition, the Champions League, the remaining challenge of a winning group, Sunday section of the fight for the League and forward to a challenge of tremendous demand.

For two years, since a goal 93 minutes into the match Sergio Ramos brought an extension and a cruel defeat of Atletico, this tournament is the desire of Atletico, who has won everything in Diego Simeone was (a league, one Copa del Rey, Supercopa of Spain, one of Europe and a Europe League) ... unless the Champions League.

Europe's top competition, of which two minutes, one in Brussels in 1974 and another in Lisbon in 2014, we have been deprived of being continental champions twice now at this time assumes all significance for Atletico, without departing either target priority each year: one of the top three positions of the season.

This illusion happens tomorrow Eindhoven. Atletico know that the first leg is more than half tie, further away from the Vicente Calderon stadium. Last year, traced at home 1-0 with Leverkusen who lost in the first match it took 120 minutes and a penalty shootout to reach the quarter-finals.

It is a warning against any distraction Atletico advised of the requirement Philips Stadium; a field in which the PSV, the defending champion and leader of the Eredivisie, has won 14 of its 17 official home games this season. It has only yielded two draws, both in the league, and a defeat in Cup against Utrecht.

It is also a warning competitiveness PSV back round of the Champions League after nine years, when he captained from midfield Phillip Cocu, who now off the bench has regained the European light team, second in his group with impeccable nine nine points at home.

Atletico will compete against a good block, leading their league with eight consecutive victories, but also against a moment of doubt the Madrid team, which generate their recent ups and downs, with just two wins in their seven most recent official meetings, in which it has been eliminated in the Copa del Rey and lost the league, eight points off the pace of Barcelona, ​​beyond the fact that it has only suffered three defeats in their last thirty official duels.

Although the base is the derby against Real Madrid on Saturday at the Santiago Bernabeu, too many changes are expected in the team Atletico, recovering Argentine Augusto Fernandez with a medical discharge and in the notice, 23 days after suffering a partial tear of the medial collateral ligament in his right knee.

Fernando Torres and Luciano Vietto, or one of the two will play in attack, while Augusto Fernandez, recently recovered and also in a transcendental position ahead of the defense, Oliver Torres are the other options for the midfield in Eindhoven, where the team will be supported by 1,250 fans.