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Atlético de Madrid
closes a very busy 2020 in sports and institutions. The mattress box alternated moments of high performance with others of clear downturn, which led to unexpected setbacks.
On the continental level he was able to eliminate the champion of Europe, he Liverpool; and then fall in a somewhat surprising way in the final phase of the Champions League, disputed in Lisbon.
A situation that has also been repeated in this final stretch of the year. The mattress team was second in their group and had some problems to overcome rivals such as Lokomotiv, which endangered the pass to the second round. On the contrary, it gave a good image to him Bayern Munich, current European champion, whom he had against the ropes in the match of Wanda Metropolitano.
The fact is that the mattress team will close this 2020 lower than the positions it was used to in recent years. We refer to the matter of the ranking by clubs of the European organization.
The mattress team finished the year fifth in this table, with 115,000 points, losing one position compared to the previous review. They surpass the Real Madrid (117,000), Juventus (118,000), Barcelona (121,000) and Bayern Munich (127,000 points), which commands this ranking.
He Athletic came in second in this ranking a few months ago, just after knocking down the Liverpool. But it is true that the return matches of various rivals from that tie had yet to be computed, because football was suspended due to the Covid.
Still, the natural position of the Simeone in this 2020 it was the fourth place, occasionally the third. But it had been a long time since he got down from the top four.
The ranking serves in the first place so that in the draws you are placed in one of the priority pots, which is supposed to bring you more affordable draws. But it is also important economically. In the past season, the UEFA introduced a new ranking according to performance in the last decade, which corresponds to economic awards. There, the Athletic it is fourth right now, with 236,000 points. Only surpassed by Barcelona (314,000), Bayern Munich (318,000) and Real Madrid (380,000). That speaks of the regularity of the mattress box in the last ten years.
The big rush of Athletic has been largely due to the emergence of Simeone on the mattress road. In 14/15 Atlético was fifth, in 13/14 seventh, in 12/13 eleventh, in 11/12 it was eighth … Europe Leagu
and (2010 and 2012) as well as the finals of the Champions they have returned the team to a place of privilege.
To understand the brutal climbing of the mattress, it must be said that from 2004 to 2007, it did not appear in the rankings that facilitate the UEFA and we talked about lists that included around 280 European teams. Remember that after descending on the 99-00 the Athletic did not return to play in Europe until 2008 and at that time the Athletic It was in 67th place and this only thanks to the indexes added by belonging to The league.