The coach of Atlético de Madrid, Diego Pablo Simeone, has assured that the team’s “strength” to “compete” as it wants is that “all the players are involved”, in addition to insisting that the “responses” depend “absolutely on the commitment ” of the footballers, and has warned that outside of the “game by game” approach there is no light.
“Before the game, I thanked the guys who were not on the scoresheet that was going to start the game for how they are working. In these last games we have repeated the formation much more times and there are a lot of very important players who are competing in a way extraordinary, in the same way as when it is their turn to enter. That is our strength. And if we have any chance of competing as we want to compete, we need to be involved as everyone is involved,” he declared at a press conference.
In this sense, he was happy that the Norwegian Alexander Sorloth has seen his work rewarded in the form of a goal. “We know that he came to help us in the way he is doing it, he is getting involved in the best way with the team. We repeated in previous games that he had had important situations to convert, and that when you have them, they will come,” he said. .
“Today was a great goal, possibly the most difficult one he had in the last ones that had been presented to him, but Molina’s cross was extraordinary, the header was perfect. It unblocked a game that, as always with Getafe, is not simple “he added. “I always consider that the kids want to give their best. There are times it is represented and there are times it is not represented, and last year it could not be represented in the same way that they sought to represent it and today, luckily, it appears in the results, above all,” he continued.
Furthermore, the Argentine coach personified this strength in the captain, Koke Resurrección, who was once again a substitute. “I am representing what I feel, I have absolutely no commitment to anyone. It is reflected in Koke, who is, surely, a very important man in our journey until today, and he knows that, if we need him for 20 minutes, he comes in for 20 minutes and breaks it.” 20 minutes. And that excites me,” he confessed.
He also highlighted the variety of his staff. “One imagines a match with different situations of what can happen and with different responses. We have the answers, but it absolutely depends on the commitment that the footballers have. It’s easy to say, but this is represented when one executes it. And Today they are executing it in a visual way. Every time it is the player’s turn to enter, he is giving his best and that fills me with pride as a coach,” he explained.
In another order of things, Simeone downplayed the importance of being co-leaders and appealed to continue “game by game.” “There is no other way to see our present and our future, to continue working with the same humility, all together in search of continuing to improve. Now we think about resting and facing the game with Barcelona on Saturday,” he indicated.
“I am repetitive, boring. It’s been 13 years, I’m not going to change. Until the day you continue to see me here it will be match by match, because I believe that is the absolute reality of Atlético de Madrid. If we leave that approach, there is no light,” he said in relation to whether he sees his team as a candidate for the LaLiga EA Sports title.
Finally, ‘Cholo’ reiterated that “the best result for a team is always 1-0.” “It means that they worked well defensively, they had forcefulness in their attack; when it leads 4-3, we have to review several things defensively, even though we have scored four goals. With 1-0, defensive work and offensive forcefulness have a lot of value. No It’s just that I always like to win 1-0, but I say that it is what best represents what a team does,” he concluded.