Diego Pablo Simeone spoke to the press after seeing two points slip away from him in the last play of the match against Celta. Atlético, devastated by casualties, managed to overcome the match with a double from Suárez, but Ferreyra in 89 'left him without the victory prize.
What taste in your mouth does the game leave you?
I have a lot of positives left. Guys who came without playing and played a great game, the second half for Lodi, Kondogbia, Torreira … Correa showing how he works and demands from the rival … these are very important things for the future. The complex game started, they play very well, there weren't many chances to score, but they had a positional dominance. In the second half we improved with the system change, Torreira and Kondogbia pressed higher, we had better pressure at the ball exit, we played the game quite well and in a very good final play they ended in a draw that I think was fair . Maybe we didn't deserve the goal at the end of the first half and they found it the same at the end of the game.
How did you experience the hours before the game?
We are in a very difficult time in society and the world, with many complications. We try to take care of ourselves, contagions are in society and it is not good. It's our turn, we have to assume it and we have footballers who can take advantage of their opportunities and hope that the boys recover and we have the whole group as quickly as possible to continue competing.
Again we had to go in tow.
The numbers are there to watch and worry about. They are scoring us quite a few goals in these last games, four in a row and we will have to improve in an important aspect of the team that is not so firm at the moment.
The debate that there is a League opens.
It is normal that during the season and all the games that there are the opinions are different according to the results. We continue on our way, which is to go game by game and I take a lot of positive things from a lot of negatives and we think about Granada to see if we can recover a footballer.
Is there anything else to say about Suárez?
It speaks for itself. Talking about him with all the words we have said… is a sign of a goal, he has always done it. He is an important player when he has opportunities and we try to enhance everything he has brought and continue to grow as a team.
Are you satisfied with the medical body or do you attribute it to something that may happen?
It's not that I blame it, it's that I look at what happens in society. Atlético is part of society.
How does a change in plans like today's affect players?
You would have to ask them. We were very excited and enthusiastic, we zoomed in with the classic video that we put before the games, we got together at 7:20 p.m. and from what we have seen on the field when we come back, work it and compete as it was competed with footballers who leave engaging, beyond the point I take a lot of positive things.
Before, he attended Movistar + LaLiga
Atlético's good streak is broken.
Difficult game with an opponent who plays very well and who has grown with Coudet. It had become complicated, they were better in the first half, although with few occasions, but the dominance. We were able to tie. The second half we improved, it was good, the intensity and aggressiveness were different, we recovered balls and it was 2-1. A fair draw in a game well played by both.
To win the League you have to fit less …
You have to go game by game, improving in all aspects.
The team has been changing the plan, before and during the game.
We have to be prepared for what happens, it is a difficult time in the world and excuses are not worth it and we cannot stop to think. You have to give your best, look in the group for the players who are available to give their best and keep competing.
Kondogbia asks for passage.
Very good Kondogbia, also Lodi, Marcos is making a huge effort on the right… The game leaves us many positive things.
Suarez is always there.
It is his job, he lives from that position and we try to generate play so that it does damage. A good pass from Llorente, another from Lodi and that's what he does best.
The advantage is cut.
To think of Granada and work to have a good meeting.