After seventeen attempts, with six draws and eleven defeats, Diego Simeone and his' Atlético de Madrid
still not due in The league to the Barcelona, which has won a 38-game championship, but never a match in that tournament, which replaces one against the other this Saturday in the Metropolitan Wanda.
It is the still impossible triumph of the coach in this competition, no matter how much he has insisted on it, no matter how much problems he has caused the Barça team in certain matches, no matter how much he has pressed up or has retreated back, no matter how many approaches he has proposed, no matter how much he has advanced on the scoreboard or even if he has ever made merits for something else. He has not won.
It is a repetitive consequence in each throw against the Barcelona team in the League. Now for 17 times since he has directed Atlético. Since their first duel: 1-2 on February 26, 2012. It is one of their eleven defeats. The other six matches were matched, including the most recent precedent (2-2 in the Camp Nou on June 30) and the 1-1 with which he won the League in that field in 2014.
Because, in contrast to that frustrating journey that supposes never having beaten a match of League to the BarcelonaYes, he has beaten him in a whole tournament. Nothing else in one, in 2013-14, in the whole era Simeone, but with the enormous dimension of the title that the rojiblanco won in Barça territory on May 17, 2014 with 1-1 in a ‘final’ for the championship that Atlético won with the goal for the history of Diego Godín.
Further, Simeone has also been able to beat him in two decisive matches of the Champions League, both in the quarterfinals and both in the second leg in the Vicente Calderón. In 2014 he won 1-0, with a goal from Koke
Resurrection. In 2016 he did it 2-0, with Antoine Griezmann as a double scorer.
He also beat him last season in the semifinals of the Super cup
Spain disputed in Saudi Arabia (2-3) for a total of three victories no more – or no less – among all the competitions, in the aggregate of 28 official matches against him, with fifteen defeats, ten draws, 26 goals in favor and 41 against.
NEVER IN LALIGA
But never in the League. There, no one in the history of Atlético has won more than him on the bench, with 223 victories in 330 games distributed among 30 of his 32 different rivals since its premiere on January 7, 2012 with a 0-0 against him. Malaga in The Rose Garden, and with two exceptions: the Racing Santander and the Barcelona, with the obvious distance of having played only once, with a draw, against the Cantabrian team, and already 17 against the invincible Barça club.
The Barcelona It is, at the same time, the adversary that has caused the most defeats to Simeone in the League, with eleven in the 17 games. In the 50 games that the coach has lost in the tournament, he is followed by Real
Madrid, with six victories against Athletic; the Real society and the Villarreal, with five; and the Spanish, with four.
On the contrary, the Athletic of Simeone has never lost to thirteen of his league opponents: the Getafe, the Pomegranate, the Deportivo de La Coruña, Valladolid, Leganés, Alavés, Las Palmas, Elche, Girona, Huesca, Córdoba, Cádiz and Racing.
At the same time, the one who has won the most has been Getafe, 14 times, followed by Athletic, Celta, the Betis and the Pomegranate, with 12. Al Real Madrid He has beaten him four times; to the Seville, eight; to the Villarreal, six; to the Valencia, eight; to Real society, eleven … and none at Barcelona. It is the victory that still lacks Simeone.