Diego Simeone, Atlético de Madrid coach, reached 200 victories in the League; a mark for the history of the rojiblanco team, from his first win against Villarreal (3-0) until this Saturday against Celta, on a journey with 100 different players, with Koke Resurrection with more games than anyone else, with Antoine Griezmann as his top scorer, with an infallible podium, with a title included in 2013-14, with 542 goals in favor, with 60 wins 1-0 or with 174 unbeaten matches.
1 – A BRAND FOR THE HISTORY OF ATHLETIC
No one else has achieved such a number of La Liga victories as Atlético de Madrid manager. Luis Aragonés's 194 triumphs in 407 matches were surpassed in the final stretch of last year, Simeone is the club's record manager in that sense, with 200 games won in 330 games. The third is Ricardo Zamora (90 wins in 174 games). Radomir Antic (65 in 144 games) and Helenio Herrera (54 in 103) complete the 'top' five in First Division.
2 – A LEAGUE IN THE CAMP NOU AND AN INFALLIBLE PODIUM
On May 17, 2014, Atlético de Madrid won their tenth league. It is the most precious title for Simeone and his team, who beat Barcelona and Real Madrid in 38 days. No one else has altered that duopoly in the last decade in the championship. The 1-1 at the Camp Nou made him champion with 90 points. It is the historical record of the club. In none of the eight full campaigns has he been off the podium. It was second in 2017-18 and 2018-19 and third in 2012-13, 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2019-20.
3 – 680 POINTS OUT OF 990 DISPUTED IN THE SIMEONE ERA
Apart from his 200 victories, Atlético de Simeone completes its numbers in the League with 80 draws and 50 defeats to add a total of 680 points out of the 990 disputed throughout his eight and a half seasons leading the rojiblanco team. That record means that has added 68.6 percent of the points played in the League.
4 – 61 WINS 1-0
61 of the 200 victories in the Simeone League have been by a score of 1-0, 30 at home and 31 away, throughout his eight and a half seasons at the helm of Atlético. The second most repeated result with him as the winner is 2-0 or 0-2 with 44 occasions, while the third is 3-0 or 0-3 in 22 wins. On the other side, only once did he win 4-3, 2-5 or 7-0 either away from home or away.
5 – THE FIRST VICTORY: 3-0 AL VILLARREAL IN VICENTE CALDERÓN
In their second La Liga game, the first victory of the Diego Simeone era came: 3-0 at Villarreal at the Vicente Calderón stadium. It was on January 15, 2012. The Colombian Radamel Falcao made the difference with 1-0 in the 39th minute and 2-0 in the 55th minute. The Brazilian Diego Ribas, in the 79th minute, completed the first of the 200 victories of the Argentine coach at the head of the rojiblanco team.
6 – THE FIRST ELEVEN, WITH COURTOIS, FALCAO, GODÍN, GABI, TIAGO …
Diego Simeone's debut at the head of Atlético de Madrid in the League was on January 7, 2012 with a 0-0 against Málaga at La Rosaleda; the origin of everything that has come after, with seven rojiblanco club titles and two Champions League finals. From his first eleven there is no one left in the team. It was formed by Thibaut Courtois; Luis Amaranto Perea, Diego Godín, Álvaro Domínguez, Filipe Luis; Tiago Mendes, Gabi Fernández; Juanfran Torres, Diego Ribas, Eduardo Salvio; and Radamel Falcao. Although it was 4-2-3-1 then, his most common system has been 4-4-2.
7 – 100 DIFFERENT PLAYERS
With the premiere of Lucas Torreira this Saturday against Celta in Balaídos, Diego Simeone has already employed a hundred different footballers to conquer the 200 victories he has achieved in the League, of which seventeen exceed a hundred crashes in the championship under the command of the Argentine coach.
8 – KOKE, GODÍN AND GABI, THE 'TOP' 3 WITH THE MOST GAMES OF SIMEONE
There is no one who has played more league games than Koke Resurrection during the current Simeone era, with 292 of the 330 games that the coach has led Atlético in the championship, followed by Diego Godín, with 242; Gabi Fernández, with 225; Juanfran Torres, with 221; Filipe Luis, with 197; Saúl Ñíguez, with 195; Jan Oblak, with 194; Antoine Griezmann, with 179; Ángel Correa, with 165, and Thomas Partey, with 130. They are the ten with the most duels in this section.
9 – OBLAK; JUANFRAN, GIMÉNEZ, GODÍN, FILIPE; KOKE, GABI, THOMAS, SAÚL; GRIEZMANN AND CORREA.
With the eleven players with the most games played in these eight and a half campaigns for Simeone In the League there is a very recognizable eleven of the Argentine coach: Jan Oblak, in goal; Juanfran Torres, José María Giménez, Diego Godín and Filipe Luis, in defense; Koke Resurrección, Gabi Fernández, Thomas Partey and Saúl Ñíguez, in the center of the field; and Ángel Correa and Antoine Griezmann, in attack.
10 – BARCELONA OR THE MISSING TRIUMPH IN THE LEAGUE
Barcelona still represents a triumph to discover in the League for Diego Simeone, what he has never beaten the Barça team in the championship (yes in the Champions League) in each of their 17 matches in this competition, with six draws and eleven defeats, which also transform Barcelona into the opponent who has beaten Atlético the most, followed by Real Madrid, with six, and Real Sociedad and Villarreal, with five. Simeone has never beaten Racing Santander in the League either, but in that case with a single duel between the two in 2011-12 that ended in a draw.
11 – EL GETAFE, THE RIVAL WHO HAS WON THE MOST
Getafe is the team that Simeone has beaten the most throughout these 200 victories in the League, with fourteen wins in fifteen matches with him. They are followed by Athletic Club (12 in 17 games); Granada and Celta, with twelve; and Real Sociedad and Betis, whom he defeated on eleven occasions. At once, there are twelve rivals he has never lost to: Getafe, Granada, Deportivo, Valladolid, Leganés, Alavés, Las Palmas, Elche, Girona, Huesca, Córdoba and Racing de Santander.
12 – THE BEST SERIES OF TRIUMPHES IN A STREAM: NINE IN 2013-14
When Atlético won the League in 2013-14, achieved his best streak of consecutive wins of the Simeone era, with nine games won without interruption, between matchday 27 and 35: 0-2 to Celta, 1-0 to Espanyol, 0-2 to Betis, 1-0 to Granada, 1-2 to Athletic, 1-0 to Villarreal, 0-2 to Getafe , 2-0 to Elche and 0-1 to Valencia, between March 8 and April 27, 2014.
13 – 543 GOALS IN FAVOR
Atlético de Simeone has scored 543 goals in their 330 league games; an average of 1.64 goals per game. Nothing else Luis Aragonés directed more goals for the rojiblanco team in the championship, with 645 in 407 games, although with a slightly lower average: 1.58. Of the ten technicians with the most Atlético games, five of them improve the Argentine average: Helenio Herrera (2.66); Fernando Daucik (2.2); Ricardo Zamora (2.17); José Villalonga (1.87) and Radomir Antic (1.75).
14 – GRIEZMANN, HIS BEST SCORER WITH 93 GOALS IN THE LEAGUE
On the route of Atlético de Simeone in the League There have been 48 different scorers, none with as many as Antoine Griezmann, today at Barcelona and with 93 goals in the five Leagues under the Argentine coach, from 2014-15 to 2018-19. The second is Diego Costa, with 48. And the third Radamel Falcao: 43.
15 – GETAFE 7-0 IN 2013, SIMEONE'S GREATEST HIT
On November 23, 2013, Simeone achieved his biggest win against Atlético de Madrid in the League with a 7-0 win against Getafe at the Vicente Calderón stadium.. Raúl García headed 1-0 and 4-0; Alberto Lopo made it 2-0 at his own goal; David Villa scored the 3-0 pass from Juanfran and the 6-0 with assistance from Adrián; Diego Costa signed 5-0 with a spectacular Chilean; and Adrián finished the victory with 7-0 in the final moments.
16 – 175 GAMES UNBEATED AND 229 GOALS AGAINST
The defensive structure is one of the Argentine coach's priorities since his arrival at Atlético. The team has conceded 229 goals against – an average of just 0.69 goals per game – with Simeone in command in the League throughout the 330 games played, of which finished more than half, 175, with no damage to his goal. Of them he won 145: 30 times by 1-0, 31 by 0-1, 24 by 2-0, 20 by 0-2, 17 by 3-0, 5 by 0-3, 6 by 4-0, 3 by 0-4, 4 for 5-0, 3 for 0-5, 1 for 6-0 and 1 for 7-0. The other thirty equaled zero.
17 – THE DEFEAT 4-1, THE MOST BULKED SCORE AGAINST
It has only happened twice, both at the beginning of his tenure as Atlético's bench, but the defeat by 4-1 or 1-4, one with Barcelona on December 16, 2012 at Camp Nou and another with Real Madrid at Vicente Calderón on April 11, 2012, is the worst that the coach has received in his 330 games.
18 – TWO LOSSES IN A row, SIMEONE'S WORST STREAM IN THE LEAGUE
In his 330 games in the League, Simeone's worst streak has been reduced to two consecutive defeats. It has happened only three times. One in 2011-12 (2-0 with Levante and 1-4 against Real Madrid); another in 2016-17 (2-0 with Real Sociedad and 0-3 with Real Madrid); and another in 2018-19 (1-0 with Betis and 1-3 with Real Madrid). In all three the white team agreed.
19 – 117 WINS AT HOME AND 83 WINS AWAY
Always reliable in his stadium, whether it was the Vicente Calderón until 2017 or the Wanda Metropolitano since then, the team coached by Simeone has won 117 matches at home, 83 of them without a single goal against. And, although now he no longer shows the determination of the first courses as a visitor, 83 of those 200 league victories have been away from home. 62 were without a goal against.
20 – THE RECORD OF TRIUMPHED WINS AT CASA DEL ATLÉTICO: 14
Simeone also corresponds the best record of consecutive victories as a visitor, with a total of fourteen at the Vicente Calderón stadium, concluded on March 8, 2013 when Real Sociedad won the Manzanares by 0-1. The previous mark dated from the years 1939-40 and 1940-41, with twelve victories for Atlético Aviación under the command of Ricardo Zamora.