MADRID, 27 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Atlético de Madrid coach, Diego Pablo Simeone, described this Saturday as “understandable” the request for annulment of his last league match against RCD Espanyol (3-3), made by the ‘perico’ club itself, “because they are playing in an important place in his league”, as a result of a controversial goal by Antoine Griezmann that at that moment meant the 0-2.
“The request is understandable because they are playing for an important place in their league and we always need to be as fair as possible,” said ‘Cholo’ Simeone at a press conference, referring to the request made this Friday by Espanyol after feeling harmed by the scant clarification of the VAR in that goal from Griezmann.
“From the technology that gives us, for example, in the Champions League and in some other leagues that this situation is in, it clarifies this type of situation and gives more peace of mind to those who have to have it against it, of course,” said the mattress coach regarding the controversial video arbitration on the goal line in that provisional 0-2.
In addition, Simeone stressed the “70 very good minutes” of his pupils at the RCDE Stadium. “And from there, the team did not have the strength to close the game and defend it as the situation required,” he added. “Espanyol was brave and managed to tie a difficult game for them as it had been,” he pointed out about the 3-3.
On the other hand, Simeone focused on the imminent mattress commitment against Real Sociedad on matchday 37 of LaLiga Santander. “We have a very good match tomorrow in our stadium, with our people, the last of the season,” he stressed about that appointment at 7:00 p.m. at the Cívitas Metropolitano.
“Hopefully we can feel the strength and energy of all our people because it is also a very important match, looking at how we can finish second, third or fourth. And, well, the work of our people is always important face to what is going to happen tomorrow in the party”, insisted the ‘Cholo’.
He also spoke about the recently injured Stefan Savic and Álvaro Morata, but without clarifying whether they will play against the ‘txuri-urdin’ team. “Both of them recovered well. So, after their recovery, we’ll look for the best we can for tomorrow’s match,” said the Argentine coach.
Finally, the ‘Cholo’ avoided giving an assessment of how the level of each league championship in Europe is right now. “It is a question to be analyzed more calmly and to extend more in the answer, and not in this moment of the importance that leads me to think about tomorrow’s game,” he argued.
“I understand your question, possibly we have to think a lot to see which League actually, by number of points or by a lot of characteristics of the competition, can lead us to understand what the position of Spain is at the moment,” Simeone replied to the journalist. who had asked him the question.
“Tomorrow we are going to face a team that plays very well, that possibly its growth year after year has been extraordinary, that plays offensively with a lot of people in attack and that has a great virtue: it is the team that makes the most fouls in the opposite field” , stood out about Real Sociedad.
“It cuts the game very well, the referees obviously let them in that situation generate those duels that they continually have one on one to cut off the counterattack. And hopefully tomorrow we can assess it so that we know that it is a team that plays very well but at the same time it cuts the play off quickly so that the opposing team, whoever they are, doesn’t use their counterattack”, he explained.
“It is a team that plays very well, very well. The truth is very good, but it is not from now. It has been working very well year after year. Since its coach came up and took its place, it knows the youth system and knows the need for club”, added the rojiblanco coach regarding Imanol Alguacil.
“He has generated the growth of many boys within the team and has given character to the team. What I was just commenting, one does not commit tactical infractions when the team is prepared. He speaks well, very well of the offensive part and speaks very well of how they interpret the defensive part. And I admire that because it is a team that knows how to defend and obviously knows how to attack very well”, concluded Simeone.