“We started behind on the scoreboard, but we reacted”

Simeone appeared before the media in the preview of the match that will measure Atlético tomorrow (9:00 p.m.) with Real Sociedad in the Wanda Metropolitano with an eye on various points of the present time. The one that Atleti is costing home games this year, the need or not for a central fifth, the opinion on what FIFA seeks, World Cups every two years.

–Team streak in the Metropolitano: “We always try to play in the same way, looking on the field to get the games going. At this start of the season it is happening more to the contrary than on other occasions, better outside than at home, but with the running of games and with the people who accompany us continuously in the home games we will find the regularity that we have always had ”.

–Centrals in the squad (Against Real, the coach will almost certainly have Savic’s absence, who has not yet trained with the group): “It is clear that we always go accordingly with the needs of the club and the team. We value that Sime (Vrsaljko) can play as a center-back on the right that he did against Alavés last season, Kondogbia can do it in the same way that he did very well against Elche, a long time against Porto, in the final Villarreal match . We have answers to some situations, always thinking that the third center-back has to be someone who gives more play, like Hermoso, that we use more starting as well ”.

–Real Sociedad, can Imanol be compared to you?: “I don’t like comparisons. Each one has his form, his style, his search, as a consequence, what he feels and what is inside the team that the coach leads. La Real has been working very well since they took over the team. It is seen in the results, in the search for the associative game, with a lot of speed at the top, players who play very well and it comes from behind. And everything that Real Sociedad shows year after year ”.

–Atleti has had to come back in six games. Do you have the feeling that the team has more attack than defense ?: “It is true that we have started many games down on the scoreboard. That shows that the team has answers because it brings them forward. We are concerned about situations of starting strong and trying to command on the scoreboard. Attacking or defending worse, football is a team and, from my search, I seek to generate a defensive security to be able to attack well ”.

–World Cup every two years: “As much as one can comment on the situations that are proposed, the final decision does not fall on the part of the coaches or the players. I take the side of the national team player and I always wanted to go play. It is very difficult to say no to your selection. People who have to make decisions based on what affects footballers are getting worse and worse. Yes you can comment, change, protest. The television commands, the clubs grow, the national teams grow, they need money, means. You can claim, protest, claim, and life is what it is for everyone ”.

–But it seems fine to him or he would leave it as is: “If I was a player I would have liked to play a World Cup year after year, but that does not coincide with the demands that footballers have. In the coach part you always want to have the players with you. But that doesn’t matter to me, I care about the Real game, which is what I live on ”.