Koke Resurrectioncaptain of the Atlético de Madrid, highlighted this Saturday his pride for the team, which achieved qualification for the Champions League for the eighth season in a row with a 1-0 win against him Betis
, while reviewing that “it has not been an easy year”, but his team was reunited with itself.
“Proud of this team for the work they have been doing throughout this season, which has not been an easy year, but we have found ourselves. After the Liverpool It was a turning point for everyone, then came the whole Covid issue, all the hiatus, and that strengthened us to continue working so that later on we knew that we had done a great job. It has to serve us for everything that comes and for the coming season, that we can do great things, ”he assessed at a press conference after the meeting.
The final is already on the horizon at eight in the Champions League. “All the teams that are classified for the quarters and those that remain after the round of 16 that will qualify will be difficult. They say that a priori (the Leipzig, his rival in quarters) that will be easy, affordable … I think not. All of us who are there will be on their own merits. It is a single match, it will be a different Champions League and we have to adapt to the situation. We have to prepare ourselves in the best way possible. And in the League we want to be third, with ambition and in a difficult year ”, he declared.
“You have to be humble, have peace of mind and with work take things out as we have been doing. We have to work, we have two league games left and we have to be third. It is our objective to be at the top of the table as far as possible that we have left and to prepare well for that match ”, he continued.