As the soccer saying goes: “A good attack wins games, but a good defense wins championships”. If there is someone who has taken this philosophy to the letter in the world of soccer, it is, without a doubt, Simeone. The rojiblanco coach Has based his team's successes on ensuring great defensive performance not only from specialists in the field, but from the whole group, regardless of the position in which they play. A good example that a team is well worked defensively is that it assiduously leaves the goal at zero. And in this Atlético is a teacher.
Analyzing the last three seasons (from 2017-18 to the recently completed 2019-20), it is observed that, taking into account only the team coaches who participate in the five major European leagues (Spain, England, Italy, Germany and France), Simeone is the technician who has achieved the most times (60) that his team does not receive any goal in a game of domestic competition. They follow him in said classification Guardiola, from Manchester City, with 54 unbeatabilities; Klopp, from Liverpool, with 53 and Sarri, from Juventus, with 46. The coach who closes the Top 5 is Bordalás, from Getafe, which reaches 42 encounters with his immaculate goal.
On the other hand, much of this achievement is owed by Cholo to his goalkeeper, Jan Oblak, one of the best on the continent. Slovenian, who has won Zamora in two of those three seasons (this year he was second to two goals by Courtois) has been the starter of Atlético in 59 of those 60 games in what was unbeaten. He lost the duel in Mendizorroza against Alavés on matchday 35 of the 2017-18 season in which Axel Werner played and finished 0-1 for the mattresses.
Broken down by campaign, In the first of the three analyzed, Oblak left his goal to zero in 22 games of the 37 he played in LaLiga. In the second (2018-19) he did it in 20 duels of 37, while this season there have been 17 the games in which he has not seen the ball enter the three poles of his goal of the total of 38 in which he has participated. Such is the Slovenian's ability to finish games unbeaten that has reached 100 times in his career this course and is the one It has the best ratio of the 21st century among the goalkeepers who have reached the hundred.