“Fight for the Champions League? The important thing is to improve ourselves”

Diego Simeon, coach of the Atletico Madridattended the media before receiving the Celtic at the Metropolitano (Saturday 9:00 p.m.) in a match corresponding to matchday 26 of the league championship.

What match do you expect from your team?

“Continue to evolve as the team has been doing in these two games, we had the regularity to maintain a stable game in what we want, and continue to improve, that’s what we seek.”

Go to the most liberated team

“Always having good behavior on the field and generating the game you want to play, like in these two games, gives you solidity, confidence, and in that quest to feed the emotional part. The rival treats the ball very well, they will have a lot of possession because he positions himself very well to start the game and attack, I expect a tough opponent with long possessions”.


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Joao Félix celebrating the goal he scored against Manchester United.

The most expensive year is to enter the Champions League

“After becoming champions in 2014, we competed until the end with Valencia and Sevilla and we qualified in the last game with Granada. It’s always difficult in LaLiga because all the teams play very well, they have evolved more and better, but what The most important thing is to improve ourselves, we have to think about ourselves, in this League with 13 games ahead”.

The meetings before playing with Osasuna

“I always believe that in times of difficulty, that the results are not what we want, security, forcefulness and calmness are needed. We have felt that in recent days and from this behavior, the team began to grow.”

Do you think that this meeting could have been the turning point

“We will see it as LaLiga progresses, when we are finishing we will be able to stand out yes or no”.

The value of football as the world is

“A lot of sadness for these times of today, difficult to understand that we are remembering distant times of war, we need peace, we want peace and we all fight to have peace in the world. Soccer does not enter into what is happening, hopefully we can be calm”.

Compete Wednesday-Saturday or train more, how the team improves.

“Improve in both ways. You can improve by training with long weeks and playing because there is the stimulus of the match. We come from making a very big effort, with boys who have put in a lot of kilometers and tomorrow we will decide who we start with and we understand that they can carry the match forward. in the best way”.

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