Diego Pablo Simeone appeared before the media to convey his feelings about the match that will face Valencia this Saturday. A game that Atlético de Madrid will face full of casualties.
Match against Valencia
“It is a team that has a very good coach. They have many young people, some of them very new and it is normal that they take time to adapt to the ideas of the mister. I see in the last games that he has played with great enthusiasm, with great energy. A team from the midfield forwards that has a lot of danger ”.
Squad capacity
“If we made a squad with all the circumstances that can happen to us, we should have a squad of 35, because you never know. These are things that we have to assume. We have to work to continue competing in the best way. Now you take care of a player for two games and in between the Coronavirus catches him and you no longer have it for the game you reserved. Now we are lucky that you can play with the changes. Having five changes gives us many solutions. That is why the quality of the minutes is more important to me than the quantity. That allows us to grow as a team ”.
Plague of injured
“I am not affected by casualties because I take care to look at how good I am. One in the season cannot imagine all the situations together but you know that you are going to have them. There is a very compressed season. There are many games, now the national teams go from playing two games to three. Champions, the Cup starts earlier…. When the season starts, you know that difficult times can come. We trust the template we have made ”.
Kondogbia
“He has a lot of chances to play tomorrow. It has been growing a lot. He has to be at 100%. He is a very great player who has to improve physically. He is a player who is going to be important to us ”.
Saponjic
“I have had several conversations with him both last season and this season. I already told you what I think and what I believe. While you are with us you will always have options to play. Costa is not there, Suárez is not there, we have Camello who is a young player who lacks experience as usual. Now the important thing is that the team generates chances and we have the players that you are seeing, from that we will have to find what we need ”.
Beautiful and Lodi
“Yes of course I am happy with both. Sometimes he has played one, sometimes the other or both. Mario is giving us many things in the field. By playing often he has much more growth because he has more confidence. For his part, Lodi is a National Team player, a footballer who gives us a lot of depth in the band and who gives many solutions upstairs ”.
Carrasco
“I am very happy with everything he is giving us. The talent, the speed, the explosive game… we know he has it. He has done an exercise in defensive maturity and that makes him a very interesting player within the squad ”.