Diego Simeonecoachl Atlético de Madrid, appeared electronically before the media on the eve of receiving the Majorca in the Wanda Metropolitano.
How has the team changed after the break
“We had finished with Liverpool with a great game, with a result that was going to give us an important boost for the League, with eleven days remaining. The League is the award for regularity, and that is at the end of the season. There is still no assessment, but yes that after that result the growth was going to continue. In the break they trained well at home, we came back with an idea of how we wanted to get especially to the first three games. We have a team with a lot of commitment, well related as a group … To continue improving, there are five hard days left, with the teams competing until the end. We do not have to deviate from the Mallorca game ”.
Surprised by the few injuries and physical condition of the team
“The greater the continuity of the players, the more internal competition we have. With this opportunity of the five changes, we have more variants in the matches, although as the competition progresses, and the physical forms improve, five changes will be stopped. There are times when the party does not ask for them, no matter how much they are allowed. Every minute will be decisive ”.
The best streak of the season without losing. Looking back, do you have the thorn of not having fought the League?
“The same thing that Villarreal should ask, the best since the return, with Madrid. You can't go back. The year is very long, there are many moments. Five months ago we said that we were in a year of transition and many were surprised. We are looking for the goal, but reality is reality, there are many young people, new footballers, who are adapting brilliantly to what the club needs. Hopefully we can keep it and finish as high as possible. ”
Key to having players plugged in
“The great responsibility they have with the group. When I had to do it when I was a footballer, they are the most important of all this, we show the way and they lead the goal to the clubs ”.
Disbelief gesture when seeing Griezmann leave at the Camp Nou
“Speechless”.
Can't say a word about the moment of change?
“I can say two, without words.”
As a driver of a truck that you are, have you apologized to a player for taking the final minutes of the game?
“I do not drive a truck, only a team of footballers from Atlético de Madrid, with their responsibilities. In our team, three minutes are decisive, we lost a Champions League final for three minutes, so … “
Was Griezmann wrong when he left, having everything at Atlético?
“I don't want to be disrespectful with the answer, but we are playing a lot at this end of the season. That is not important for us today, I do not consider it deviant in random thoughts ”.
Caio Henrique
“The club always works according to the needs we have. The options and opportunities that we have to continue rounding the campus are welcome. We know him, we put him on the left side when he was in B and he went up with us. In Brazil he played in that position, he is in the youth team … We will see how he returns, in what conditions he is, he has been playing for almost three months. We do not know in what situation we will find him. “
Luka Romero, Mallorca player who debuted in Primera at the age of 15
“It would be hasty to give an opinion for 20, 30 or 90 minutes. You have to let people develop with a footballer with a good future, as coaches believe. If they have put him in First it is because they have seen him fit to help his club. When we see more, we will have more capacity to comment. Today seems rushed to me. “