ANDhe Atlético will play on Sunday, April 2, against Betis (9:00 p.m.) a match that can almost definitively distance them from the Verdiblanco team in the qualifying table. The rojiblanco team looks to second place, although their great objective is to finish in the top four. The clash will be important, too, for Jan Oblakwho will play his 389th game with the Atlético shirt and will equal Diego Godín in the ranking, another legendary club from Madrid. Godín is the tenth footballer with the most matches with Atlético and Oblak will match him.
The Uruguayan defender is, right now, the foreigner with the most matches played with the rojiblanco team. The Slovenian goalkeeper will equalize him and if no major setback happens due to injury, he will surpass him against Rayo Vallecano, thus increasing his legend at Atlético. If he continues the next campaign in the Cívitas Metropolitano entity, he could surpass other historical players such as Fernando Torres, Gabi, Arteche or Calleja.
Oblak celebrates his ninth season at Atlético, club he joined in the 2014-15 campaign. The Madrid club then paid 16 million to Benfica. In his first season it was difficult for him to take ownership, but then he already became a basic in the Madrid team. At 30 years old, he is one of the best goalkeepers in the world, second captain of Atlético, and one of the most beloved players by the rojiblanca fans.
This season he will not be able to lift any title and add to the four he already has: Spanish Super Cup, a League, a Europa League and a European Super Cup. He has been the goalkeeper with the fewest goals scored in the championship five times and if he achieves it one more season he will make history. Valdés and Ramallets also won the Zamora on five occasions. No one did it six times. In the 388 games he has played, he has kept a clean sheet in 188. In the current championship, Atlético is the second least thrashed team. Those of Cholo have conceded 19 goals, ten more than Barcelona.
