The Atlético de Madrid went to the game before Real society, determined to end the great problem that afflicts the team at this start of the season. The performance ball at the beginning of the matches or whatever they want to say, the lack of concentration, football, the initial weakness. However they catalog it, the numbers are the best reflection of what is happening in this campaign.
Until now, the team of Simeone it has started losing in seven of the 12 games of the season. That is to say, in 58.3% of the matches this year. What happened against Real Sociedad is a worrying trend in the mattress dressing room because it has cost results. It cost points, as it happened against the Basque team. “Some mistake that we may have ends up condemning us in all the first actions of the matches, notice that in the second half also with the free kick (from 0-2 of Alexander Isaac) came the same, the same way. It is always quite complex to take the game with the tranquility that we would like ”, he admitted. Simeone after the meeting ”.
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The Argentine coach considered that it is “difficult to explain” the reason why this happens to them, but still valued that the team has “a lot of things”, especially its ability to recover: “The team responds as it has almost always responded, drawing them, being able to win them or giving the feeling that he was more to win them than to lose them. That makes me have to try to break our heads to balance the situations more and see if we can be strong at the start of the games, because it gives us the possibility to play them at the pace we want ”.
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Mattress players move along this story line. “We went out from the first moment with the idea of wanting to take advantage, but sometimes it is difficult for us. It was uphill for us. We have to try to come out with more attention, be self-critical in what we have weaknesses in the first minutes so as not to repeat it again, “he explained
This season, of those seven games in which he started losing, three were won (Espanyol, Getafe, AC Milan), two were lost (Alaves and Liverpool) and two ended up drawing (Villarreal and Real society).
It is a recurring problem in the late Athletic because in the previous year they were ahead of them in the score in 11 games, and five of them ended in a mattress victory, two in a draw and only in four in defeat.
That is, between last season and the present there are already 18 games in which he started losing. With a balance of eight wins, four wins and six losses.
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