In search of the aim that has not accompanied the Atlético de Madrid in the last two days, both ended with draws 0-0 against the Huesca and the Villarreal, Argentine coach Diego Pablo Simeone takes advantage of the national team break to demand intensity and aim from his players.
For this, the 'Cholo ’Simeone He even put on his boots to serve lateral centers to his forwards, in one more day of training in which offensive work was essential, with the aim of regaining his aim when the competition returns in just over a week.
At the turn of the competitive break, Atlético will face three games in less than ten days: two consecutive starts, Bullets to play against him Celtic already Munich, Germany) to face the current European champion, the Bayern, in the restart of the Champions League and a duel in the Metropolitan Wanda against Betis.
For this, Thursday's session was marked by intensity. After a playful start through 'teqball', This recent discipline in which the players dispute a hybrid between soccer and table tennis, using a ball to bounce the ball, the rojiblanco coaching staff arranged a round with three groups.
“It's a game, it's a game,” he shouted Simeone asking their players for tension during the exercise, according to the video images provided by the club.
This was followed by the exercises to shoot a lateral center. “It's a goal, it's a goal,” the Argentine asked on the clearest occasions, to later get ready himself to serve centers from the right in search of the auction of his forwards.
Finally, Atlético also worked the plays, with the captain Jorge ‘Koke’ Resurrection as in charge of serving passes in depth for the career arrival of the Spanish-Brazilian Diego Costa and from the Argentine Angel Correa.
A preparation waiting to have the eleven internationals of the rojiblanca squad: the goalkeepers Jan Oblak (Slovenia) e Ivo Grbic (Croatia); the defenders Kieran Trippier (England), Stefan Savic (Montenegro), Felipe Monteiro (Brazil) Y Renan Lodi (Brazil); the media Héctor Herrera (Mexico) Y Lucas Torreira (Uruguay); the extreme Yannick Carrasco (Belgium); and the forwards Joao Félix (Portugal) Y Luis Suárez (Uruguay).
“The group is working well, you can see that there is a lot of desire, a lot of enthusiasm on the part of everyone to achieve things, that we are all here to add and that is the important thing, that the group is united, because that is our strength,” he said after the session the Uruguayan Jose Maria Gimenez, joined training on Monday after overcoming COVID-19 after two weeks of isolation.
The rojiblancos footballers will continue working this Friday before having the usual free weekend that the coaching staff of the Athletic usually given to footballers during this period without club competition.