Simeone: “I see myself with the same energy as always”

Is Real Madrid the favorite in LaLiga?

Those details are handled by you. We work day by day, improving in each training session and just as we have been doing for ten years, just thinking about the game ahead of us, which is what is worth and what is real. The focus on Mallorca, who have been working very well, with very short results for or against and who compete very well, we will try to take the game where it suits us best.

You said you like to be in an expectant situation, what does it mean?

I don’t think there is too much to explain. It is interpreted like this, we always have expectations focused on what we have ahead and it is a position that we are having today. In later matches it may increase or decrease, time will tell, but that’s why I am not in the business of talking about what will happen ahead.

How is Suarez? And Cunha?

Matheus has been growing, inserting himself better and better within the team and hopefully he can continue with the growth for which he came to Atlético. We know Luis, we know what he can give us and we will try to get him to give us the best in the moments that the team needs them the most.

In the last home game there were people who asked for his dismissal.

I am very respectful of all opinions from around the world.

He was relieved after Lemar’s goal against Cádiz, are you tired?

It is very difficult to explain how one feels. I can tell you that I am very good and you see me very bad. I see myself with the same energy as always. The other day we had the need to take the game forward and Lemar’s goal gesture is a moment of relief, we were starting to win and it was heading towards a victory that we needed.

Is it the most demanding month since your arrival?

All games have their complexity, there is not a game that one goes and knows that he will absolutely win. Some may seem more complex and be simpler and vice versa. The important thing is how we are, we work very well and I hope it can be shown in the field, which is what matters about what I am telling you.

There are people who ask Suárez for a substitute.

Normal for people to give their opinion, we are in a place of exhibition and criticism and opinion is open. Then there are us, who know the most of each one and since I arrived at the club I will always look for what best suits the team.

What do you like the most this season?

The team is in the attack phase and has almost always done good things. We must improve on the defensive part, which begins with a collective team work and we will try to strengthen and improve it in training, in games and situations for that good team play and that strength and tranquility that the team has always had defensively.