MADRID 22 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The coach of Atlético de Madrid, Diego Pablo Simeone, celebrated in his team with players such as Antoine Griezmann and Julián Álvarez, decisive in the 0-3 who took from Mestalla, while recognizing Valencia’s anger with the penalty by the hands of Javi Galán who did not point to the referee.
“They just showed me the image of the prison, the same play of the Eurocup, the hand that is dead down there. He hits him in his hand, I do not understand anything, what do they want to tell them, sincerely in the Eurocup it was criminal, Cucurella He wanted to die.
The visiting coach was asked about that action in the second half claimed by Valencia and confessed that it seemed penalty, although “one day” will be and “another no.” “I hope it is always clearer to everyone because that situation is little understandable. One day it will be criminal, another day not, and well, hopefully we can always handle the same line for all the teams,” he said.
The Argentine coach recognized the fundamental role of Antoine Griezmann. “As I said yesterday, he is a differential player. He has things that others do not see and luckily today helped us like the entire team to get a very important result in Valencia field, which always beyond the moment is dangerous and came from Three games two cattle and one tied, “he said.
“We interpreted well in how to enter the game, we were blunt in the situations we had and in the second half what usually happens in this field. A team that plays it with the need to enter the game, I think they pressed better, They had much more aggressiveness in the areas, in our area to generate danger and I think that later Giménez’s entrance organized us a little better as a team, “he said.
“The game did not finish closing, we needed fresh legs to generate that closing the game with that third goal so that they did not enter. We do not know what would have happened to the 1-2, but we cope with that moment, we put fresh legs for That the team kept wanting to close the game, “he added.
In addition, the ‘Cholo’ recalled that in this second round “there is no game that is simple, less away from home”, and also responded to Julián Álvarez’s great game, author of a double. “We said it when he still could not reflect with facts what we went to look for him, why we went to look for it and why we were obviously so excited about his arrival and we are excited about his present, with his work but especially in the forms .