Gimenez primed for Messi duel in Barca v Atleti

Atletico Madrid defender Jose Gimenez knows a groovy head will be required when he comes face-to-face with Lionel Messi on Sunday.

Barcelona host Atleti at Camp Nou, with Diego Simeone’s side having trimmed their as soon as imposing advantage at LaLiga’s summit to five aspects.

The Rojiblancos’ title notify has been built upon the foundations of a rock receive defence.

Gimenez’s alliance with skipper and fellow Uruguay world Diego Godin at centre-inspire is courageous and Atleti hold handiest been breached eleven instances in 26 top-flight fits.

On the different hand, the 23-one year-weak knows Messi items a notify adore no diversified.

« There are some gamers who gather to wait with him and others lag all or nothing, » he defined in an interview with AS.

« I suspect that with Messi now we must elevate a ruin, since you might per chance perchance perchance well perchance also hold the closing-minute dribble where he takes all americans out. 

« I suspect that to face him it’s essential to that point to forestall since you know that you just might per chance perchance perchance well perchance also moreover be dribbled previous at any time. We all know who’s the finest participant on this planet.

« As mighty as you stumble on or play 35 instances in opposition to him, you know what he goes to enact and the consequence is the similar. That makes him no longer handiest diversified; it makes him the finest. 

« He is class A. With him you know you ought to expect the unexpected. »

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— Jose Maria Gimenez (@JoseMaGimenez13) March 1, 2018

Gimenez and Godin are moreover more than familiar with their countryman Luis Suarez, who netted Barca’s equaliser in the 1-1 diagram on the Wanda Metropolitano earlier this season and is determined to spearhead Ernesto Valverde’s assault but again.

« We are Uruguayans, all americans understands our football and they know what they’ll demand from a duel between two Uruguayan central defenders in opposition to a striker who’s moreover from our country, » Gimenez said.

« Luis is the trend of participant you never are searching to receive [against you] on the pitch. 

« A long way off from the field, he’s a extraordinarily human, humble, easy individual. Or no longer it is no longer adore how you watch him on the pitch, steadily searching to war. It’s his character. »