While the
Atlético de Madrid
focuses on the party of the Champions League against him Lokomotiv in Moscow with the news of Luis Suarez Y Saúl Ñíguez in the call and the casualties still of Diego Costa, Yannick Carrasco and Sime Vrsaljko, the party in The Sadar with Osasuna He reinforced it, with special emphasis on the first 20 minutes of the second half, in which he demonstrated the individual and collective performance that he expects, with a significant number of times to have thrashed and without a single scare back in that section. Only the penalty missed by Joao Felix it results in a recurring problem from 11 meters.
In leadership numbers, currently conditioned because he still has two pending games – for example, he is two points behind Real Madrid, who has played one more duel, and leads by six and seven at Barcelona and the Seville, respectively-, the records of the rojiblanco team in their first six appointments of this league exercise describe constancy and solvency so far in the tournament.
But it is not a guarantee to compete for The league. There are examples in each of the last full courses of Simeone that started in a similar way, but then did not stretch as long as they should to fight for the title. Neither in 2016-17 nor in 2017-18 nor in 2018-19 nor in 2019-20, when at this point he added more or less the same points in six games: 12, 14, 11 and 13, respectively,
Only the two consecutive zero draws of the fourth and fifth matchdays against the Huesca and the Villarreal, in that order, they have altered the winning dynamics that he demonstrated in his staging with 6-1 at Pomegranate and that has continued afterwards, beyond less convincing sections, with the 0-2 at Celtic, 2-0 to Betis and the 1-3 of this Sunday with Osasuna that enlarges each one of its streaks.
Does not lose in The league since last February 1 in the derby against the Real Madrid (1-0), 22 games ago; He has not fallen in any duel this course, of which he is the only undefeated in the Spanish tournament; and has linked a three-win streak that he only achieved twice throughout the “transition year” of 2019-20.
THE HIGHEST SCORING ATHLETIC SINCE THE LAST LEAGUE CONQUEST
The Athletic It has multiplied its offensive benefits compared to the past year. His 13 goals in his first six games are 90 percent better than his start last season, when he scored seven goals in four wins, the draw and the loss with which he came into play. They also surpass the eight from 2018-19.
And at twelve of 2017-18 and 2016-17. Or at the nine of 2015-16. And at eleven from 2014-15. From 2013-14, the season that crowned him champion, the Athletic He had not started better either in the offensive aspect, because then he scored 18 goals, or in the score, with 18 of 18 points, although from then to now there are three courses that equal his 14 points from now: 2014-15, 2017-18 and 2018-19.
Defensively, with two goals against in six games, of which Jan Oblak held his frame unscathed in four of them, it's the best of the era Diego Simeone, tied with the 2016-17 campaign, when he also started with the same record. And the goal difference is the best (at +11) since 2013-14, when it started at +13.
In all this, your reaction as a visitor is crucial. The Athletic they have won two of their three away games. The other tied it. Last year, he only won two of his first eight league starts. And in all The league its production barely increased to six wins due to its number of draws, ten, and three defeats.
In addition, his two wins in his two most recent outings, a streak on the road that he has only repeated twice in the two most recent seasons (between matchdays 29 and 31 in 2019-20 and between matchdays 24 and 26 in 2018-19) , contrast with the difficulties he had gone through in the last two years on his trips: 13 wins in 38 visits within the Spanish championship.