Categories: Football

Atlético no longer has ‘anti-aircraft’

The Atlético de Madrid succumbed to the Real Mallorca, in the game this past Saturday played in the Wanda Metropolitano. He did it at the worst possible time, in a time of need in LaLiga to follow in the wake of Real Madrid, but especially at the gates of the meeting of Champions League against Porto in which their survival in the continental competition will be played.

“It is difficult to find explanations for situations that are repeated. We have to fix them. We are responsible for what happens. Things that are not going well must be corrected immediately. In two shots on goal they make us two goals and that did not happen before. I demand more concentration, “he said. Simeone after the game against him Mallorca. He was referring mainly to that set piece in which Russo tied and changed the fate of the party. “We had talked about that if we managed to reach the end of the match tied, Atlético was going to overturn and we were going to have spaces behind because it was normal, the Athletic he was going to need to go for victory. There we were going to be able to take advantage of how it ended up happening ”, he explained Luis Garcia Plaza, coach of the Mallorca, after the meeting.

A WEAKNESS OF THE ATHLETIC

The reality of the numbers is not deceiving. On League, of the 16 goals conceded in this course, five have been from set pieces such as the one that transformed the Mallorca. A very atypical number in an Atlético that had always had among its strengths the ability to defend this type of action.

Barely eight goals have come in regular game plays, two came from a corner kick, another two from a foul, one from a direct foul and three from a penalty.