Atletico squad list for Dortmund second leg

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Saúl makes it in time for the Dortmund squad. AFP

Diego Pablo Simeone is taking 22 players to the final in Dortmund. The Atletico Madrid coach has brought back Saul Niguez in time and called up Adrian Nino for Depay's absence.

Atletico Madrid travel to Dortmund on Monday for the second leg of the Champions League quarter-final with 22 players, with Saul Niguez, who has recovered from an ankle injury, and Adrian Nino, a youth team attacker, in the squad,

Memphis Depay, Thomas Lemar and Samuel Lino, the first two injured and the third suspended, are out of the squad for the game in Germany.

The Dutch striker will miss a third successive game due to a muscle injury suffered a week and a half ago; the French midfielder, now in the final stages of his recovery from a ruptured Achilles tendon suffered on 16 September, will remain sidelined for the 42nd consecutive match; and the Brazilian winger will serve a three-match yellow card suspension.

The squad is as follows: goalkeepers Jan Oblak, Horatiu Moldovan and Antonio Gomis; defenders Nahuel Molina, Axel Witsel, Stefan Savic, Jose Maria Gimenez, Gabriel Paulista, Reinildo Mandava, Mario Hermoso and Cesar Azpilicueta; midfielders Marcos Llorente, Rodrigo de Paul, Koke Resurreccion, Pablo Barrios, Arthur Vermeeren and Saul Niguez; winger Rodrigo Riquelme; and forwards Antoine Griezmann, Angel Correa, Alvaro Morata and Adrian Nino.