Lee Kang-in

In his reaction to Saturday's match, a 2-0 win at Levante, in which Baena provided an assist for Giuliano Simeone, Isaac Suarez touched on a dynamic that I also touched on in my match reaction.

The second goal, that 20-pass back-to-front move that involved every Atletico player except Lee Kang-in, was a fusion of Giuliano Simeone's rock and roll and La Pausa, of baena la pausa that very spanish quality that skill to slow down to control a match to dictate a match to kind of move defenders out of position in his player ratings david medina also marca called baena mr assists you'll remember he gave morten yeoman the assist for the danish midfielders disallowed goal in the first half a very tight offside call he then supplied Alex Grimaldo with the pass for 1-0, though that pass was deflected into Grimaldo's path, so Baena didn't get credit for the assist.

He did get credit for Giuliano's goal, though.

And in his uno-uno at Diario S, Sergio Picos went with this headline, Baena builds, Grimaldo and Giuliano kill, and Oblak sustains.

You know, when he arrived, we heard a lot of discussion and participated in some of it ourselves.

as to whether Baena was the new Antoine Griezmann.

I've written about it recently, but I think it's more between Baena and Lee Kang-in, who was also essential to how Atleti have operated and performed early on this season.

I think between those two, you're making up for the loss of Griezmann in the aggregate.

It seems like he'll be ready to go, and there aren't many concerns moving forward, but we shall see.

In the attacking midfield area in the wingers, you have Kang In-Lee, who came over from a PSG, a highly regarded 25-year-old.

Alex Baena.

who is a very, very good player, one of the most key players on this Atletico side.

I mean, I guess, Jeremy, we didn't have you on the PSG or on the Ligue 1 preview pod.

And it's fair to say that actually, you know, they were quite busy in the summer, both with kind of you know, big sales, whether that's kind of Gonzalo Ramos, Kang Lee, amongst others, bringing in Mika Gurds, Akhliush, Ferran Torres.

Obviously, it's early days, but what do you make of their kind of transfer business so far and what the kind of new signings have brought to PSG? PSG is such an interesting case.

Now, I often think of Zabani, right, as kind of, who's kind of seen as a little bit of a, of a flop, right, because he basically doesn't play in the Champions League.

Baena, Lukman, you also have Jonathan David finding good form with Atletico right now.

Lee Kangin, though a little inconsistent, he's dangerous enough to where we have to play him, whether it's off the bench or in a starting position.

We have so many different avenues of attack.

We are creating our own luck.

So that was an effective change.

But even still, man, Kanye won all five of his ground duels.

There were early concerns when we signed him about how is he going to be out of possession? How is he going to adapt defensively? The answer is fine.

The answer is he's just fine.

Pablo Barrios and the embattled Morton Yeoman together in midfield.

Lee Kangin and Alex Baena on the right and left of midfield, respectively.

And the starting forward pair, Adam Mololukman and Julian Alvarez.

No Giuliano Simeone.

Juliano and Oblak were like, alright, nice, we have something going for us here.

But you see, again, as to riff off of what Ricky was saying, this is where you see that missing link where Juliano is not the guy you want in build-up, but Kangin Lee is usually the guy you want where Juliano was a lot of those times, and he would be the guy to offload into...

the wider left-hand side or to Juliano further forward.

And we missed him yesterday.