Simeone: “Arrive with doubts? These games are a new story”

Diego Pablo Simeoncoach of Atletico Madridspoke about the situation of the team and the derby match real Madrid which will be held this Sunday at Metropolitan.

The mattress coach explained that he prefers to arrive at this type of match with a positive dynamic, not after a loss like a few days ago in Championshe is new Bayer Leverkusen. However, he also said that in important games, those situations are less important. “I always think it’s important to get to important matches because of confidence and security, but at the beginning of the match it’s a new story. For those of us who have to play or for us coaches, understand that everything is fine until the start of referee the game and start a new movie where we don’t know what the end is. That’s why this game is so fun”, he explained to add to that meaning: “I would have loved to go with a victory, but looking at it from the positive side always wakes you up a tension and we face a good team, with good footballers for many years: Benzema, Modric… So many years competing. And then a young generation that does real Madrid with very good footballers. That’s why they compete so well. He speaks highly of them.”

The coach emphasized on several occasions that, in his opinion, the real Madrid does the transition between generations of players very well. “They have an extraordinary team, with young players who are making the transition from others who have been performing at an extraordinary level for years. That is why they have a habit of winning, because they have an extraordinary team. We will try to take the game in a place where we will feel comfortable”, he commented.

THE VINICIUS CONTROVERSY

The Argentine preferred to ignore the past controversy because of the celebrations of Vinicius dancing, the accusations of racism unleashed on the player, the words of Coke… “I’m focused on what I’m about, as a coach, which is finding ways to play a good game. A derby is always special for us and the fans,” commented the coach to make note on the issue of racism: “We live in a society in which we are all involved. We are human beings, this is the society we have”.

Simeon confirmed that cloud He was recovered: “He was on purpose.” Apart from grieving the loss of his life, especially in the case of Gimenez Y Savictwo key pieces. “We spent a lot last season, the time of Savic Y Gimenez that’s a lot. I hope this season never goes away. They are important players for us and they give us alternatives to have more tools. We are all working so that this does not happen (that there are many of them out there”), comments of cholos

Another proper name, that of Griezmann. “We understand bruise Y João they are good, Griezmann he was very good in the 30 minutes he played because he gave us a step forward in the game, he gave us a game, hierarchy, a better society in attack. We decide this way at the moment,” he explained about the French situation.

Finally, he referred to the fact that he surpassed Luis Aragonés in the number of matches League directed and that he is only a few years away from becoming the coach with the most games directed at a single club, in the history of the competition: “The time is related to a good job for the club, to give me great footballers , and just to have players that are committed. I’ve been fortunate to spend many years with players, transfers of some that have come and others that have gone, with the most difficult thing being having players that are committed to a goal. I was lucky. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have stayed for so many years.”