MADRID, 28 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The coach of Atlético de Madrid, Diego Pablo Simeone, compared Friday the situation of the rojiblanco team this season with last, in which “they were also” in similar realities, but “did not” achieve “any title”, so it faces the game of this weekend without the feeling of being “defining.”
“Last season we had also made an important season where we could reach the semifinal of the Copa del Rey, compete very well in Champions and in the League we managed to maintain a very good step, but then in the end we failed to reach any title that is obviously the goal,” said the Argentine at the press conference prior to this Saturday before the Athletic Club.
Atlético de Madrid faces a key week for the aspirations of the season in which it will be the number 40 of a campaign in which the team has shown its “physical strength” with the figure of Luis Piñedo as physical trainer. “Luis is doing his job in the best way and obviously the team also responds to the ability of players to solve the matches when they have to solve it,” he said.
The calendar begins to tighten as “has previously passed at other times of the competition”, so they now focus “on recovery” in the best way. “Doing the work divided with the boys who have more minutes and with those who have less to compensate for tasks and that can be in the best way,” he said.
The Argentine coach did not want to qualify this Saturday as “defining” or as a synonym that “everything ends”, although it will be an “important” meeting. “I hope that the stadium may be as it always does, with that energy and that strength, because the boys come from making a great effort. I have no doubt that they felt (the fans) very identified with the 4-4,” he said at the same time that he wished that “tomorrow goes well” for them the arbitration of Extremadura Gil Manzano.
On the figure of his counterpart on the Bilbao bench, he highlighted the “trust and tranquility to transmit” his ideas to the team. “This season is being fantastic, competing in the European League, which hopefully they have the possibility of reaching that final in their field, because it would do well for Spanish football. They are competing very well in the League and in Europe,” he said.
About Antoine Griezmann, he focused on how “differential” that is the Frenchman for the rojiblanca squad “every time he can help us, he has a plus.
For Diego Pablo Simeone, the Argentine Ángel Correa “has demonstrated his heart” to the fans, which “loves him very much.” “Sometimes it is difficult to live with that situation of not playing from the beginning when in many moments of matches it enters very well. But it is what in this case the coach has to decide and he (Correa) the truth that always accepts in the best positive way,” he said.