After the victory against Real Betis and mathematically achieve qualification for the Champions League, the coach of Atlético de Madrid Diego Pablo Simeone He wanted to pay the bill to all those who months ago came to ask for his head and announced the end of Cholismo. “There are many people who, in any circumstance that happens during the season, take the opportunity to say that the cycle is over, that people are bored, and they fill a lot of pages marking the negative things that at that moment may be happening, because in a season a team cannot always be in the same place. You have to live with stages, as happened to us. We started the League well, we lost performance, we were very irregular… we were on the verge of winning the Super Cup ”, he explained at the press conference after the match.
A classification that came despite the team having everything against it because they saw two goals annulled (one to belt and another to Morata), as it had to be removed Trippier due to injury and Beautiful he was expelled rigorously: “I think that if there was a moment to qualify for the Champions League and how it was classified, the best moment was what happened in the match, because this is us: they beat us and we reinvented ourselves; we had a bad time and we went forward; we fall and rise again. And we always compete. And we will continue to compete. ”
He Cholo He returned to leave some of the keys that have caused the team to be in one of its best moments of the season. “I never stopped trusting the work that this team maintains with the structure. It gives us the chance to once again reach the Champions League two games ahead of schedule, with a ton of new players. ”
Some new players to whom he dedicated a few words to try to determine some of the setbacks he has encountered this season. “In defense Trippier, Felipe, Hermoso, Lodi. Of the defense almost always three were new because Savic and Gimenez they had physical problems in the first part of the campaign. They have almost always played Felipe. Joao Félix with his intermittency but with an incomparable talent that next year will be extraordinary for his growth. All this that is happening to him will serve him. The growth of Saul, Thomas, Koke. The irruption of Carrascothe of Llorente and we were retrying. We were looking for situations to remain competitive, which is what we want from the first day we arrived here. Be competitive, and we are. ”
Despite the fact that the stage records of Simeone they are evident, he does not stop to contemplate them: “I do not stop to analyze what is being done, but we always seek to improve and grow. And the only way to grow is to give the club the possibility, with great management that it has, based on our work in the field, that they can manage the growth that the club has had in these eight years, ”he explained.