“Inside me, I knew that the League was not going away with four dates missing”

Simeone, Atlético coach, attended Vamos after the League champion trophy was handed over to the team. He also received praise from the mayor of Madrid and took stock of how the rojiblancos season has passed.

The mayor has said that Simeone has changed history: “He was texting me with people who have been very important in this process of almost ten years. With Gabi, Juanfran, Godín, Diego Costa… They congratulated me, they were happy. This is only a moment, it could be lost or won, but they left a legacy and marked a path. There was a very nervous person to win because it was to revalidate what we have been working on and what they left behind and they have done again ”.

Nerves: “I had a worse time with Osasuna, there was less time left. I was a player and I know what it is that your legs do not respond to you, when there is a scenario that seems to be there, but it is not there and you have to go through it. At halftime we speak well, what we needed to improve and they came out of another menara. There was another step, another gesture, another aggressiveness: the goal came and then Suárez appeared at the decisive moment and when he scored 1-2 the game was closed “.

What did he say? “Tactical. You had to play, it was the way to turn the situation around, as they have been doing all season. The merit is that we were four teams fighting for the championship, then we were three, Real Madrid and Barça were chasing us and it's not it's easy for them to chase you because you know they're going to win, they usually win. That raises what I said about resistance, about living with the pressure to win … “

Key moment of the League: “The game with Betis. There was a click. We came from coronavirus, injuries … Problems of all the teams in a complex year, very hard. After that day I sensed that we were close. When there were four dates left, inside of me I knew I did not know I was going.

The one of the Barça also, that party told us that we could. The team played a great game, with strength, pressure, personality… when there is so little left to go and you get that together, I wasn't worried. If Madrid won, they would go first, but everything remained the same and the road was hard and difficult, but you could see something else “.

Savic: “I feel reflected in Stefan, although we are totally different. We had a talk where all the footballers spoke and when I heard it I felt identified with what it was transmitting. Group things. They are not the classic talks, but concrete messages that improve the group. He has grown up in football, he has been fantastic. He came to win and I am happy that he has achieved the success that is winning “

The hug with his father: “I wanted to come to Valladolid and in the end I didn't. When I left, he told me “not to loosen up now.” He came to see us win, he did it in Barcelona (2014), he did it now… ”.