When Simeone arrived at Atlético almost nine years ago (in December 2011), the rojiblanco club had lost his place in the soccer elite national. It was a team that was fighting to get into European competition. However, from that moment on, the entity grew little by little until rub shoulders with Real Madrid and Barcelona again in LaLiga and compete with the greats of the continent from you to you in the Champions or the Europa League. One of the bases of the Cholo philosophy to achieve success is the defensive strength and commitment of all for the good of the group. With this he has achieved that beating Atlético is very difficult and that is shown with data.
With yesterday's victory (2-0) against Betis At the Wanda Metropolitano, the colchoneros achieved a historic milestone: breaking the record for consecutive games without losing in the league competition. The victory against Pellegrini's men was the 21st match in a row, scoring points in the regularity competition. With this they managed to overcome the previous data, which reached the previous day against the Celtic and that they shared with the streak that chained between end of the 2016-17 course (the last four days) and the beginning of 2017-18 (until day 16). On that occasion the balance was 13 wins and seven draws, starting with a victory against Las Palmas by 0-5 and ending with a 1-0 against Alavés.
The current streak began on matchday 23 of last season, when those of Simeone saw the faces with Granada in the Wanda Metropolitano and defeated them 1-0. The last time the colchoneros did not add points in a LaLiga match was on February 1 of this year, when they lost 1-0 to Real Madrid. Of that 267 days ago and, since then, the Cholo's pupils they have achieved 12 wins and nine draws. Next Saturday at 6:30 p.m. against Osasuna the rojiblancos will have the possibility of expanding this mark if they continue without losing on their visit to El Sadar.