Simeone: “Barcelona have Messi and we have Oblak”

Effort: “Very happy for the team and for the club. We are once again in the top eight in Europe against an extraordinary rival. A very important rival with a pushing crowd. Llorente revolutionized the team. An enormous joy, it seems simple but it is not.”

He took advantage of the mistakes: “Soccer is trying to look for the rival's difficulties. We tried to push them up to create possibilities with the Costa line, Felix and Correa. We had Diego's, but they found the first goal almost in the long run. We did not lower our arms with the second goal and we found it 2-1 and the teams felt they had something inside. “

Oblak: “Oblak is as important as Savic, like Felipe, like Félix … We have a goalkeeper who is the best in the world, like Barcelona who also plays Messi and solves games for him. Oblak is the best, he solves us and that is why he is in the place it deserves. “

Message in the extension: “His line was breaking. The 5-4-1 was going to allow us a counterattack and it was. The change of Costa for Llorente was going to be defensive, but it was not …”.

Later, Simeone continued analyzing the match in the press room:

Atlético played a historic game …

There were several situations to highlight. The first, that we face a rival of the best that we have had in these eight years that I have been, with a changed leg, with good bands and we could find the game in breaking that line that they do so well. At the beginning we had one with Diego, then it cost us, the rival began to hold the game by the sides. We found the goal against, Llorente entered to give legs because Diego had given everything and we needed people to break. For some Llorente's change can be defensive, he has a great shot and a great three-quarter step ahead. At the end of the game we started to improve, just when people started to sing, we recovered balls later and we had João Félix's. In overtime they hit us and a team comes that does not change at any time. The 2-1 came that gave us strength, the 2-2 and the 2-3 already with spaces. It is a match for the history of Atlético. We are proud to be among the top eight in EUropa.

Is Oblak the Messi of Atlético?

In order to stop all situations, they have had difficulty being able to shoot. Oblak is the best goalkeeper in the world. Messi solves games defensively and Oblak solves them on goal. Oblak powers the team. Fans will remember this match for a long time.

Klopp said he does not understand Atlético's way of playing but that he is the right winner. How does Atlético play?

Atlético plays to win. With their weapons and to win. Exploiting the flaws of the rivals too. So we play.

One of his mottos is never stop believing and it was applied …

The other day against Sevilla we shot seventeen times and this is football. The Qarabag left us out, but this is football, remember? The issue is to detect where the rival's defects are and I think we were very precise about this.

Are you concerned that the Champions League may be suspended?

A world health issue and hopefully it will be resolved in the best way. I already say it in UEFA that seems to me unfair today of Atlético. The thirty minutes to score three goals in the opposite field Liverpool did not have. Our goal is more important than their goal. This time it favors us and other times it can harm us. Liverpool had thirty minutes less to value the double goal in the opposite field.