Diego Pablo Simeone analyzed his draw against Almería on the DAZN microphones. The Atlético de Madrid coach wants to make it clear that his team’s problem is the lack of effectiveness up front. He repeated this in up to three of his responses.
match rating
“A game that we started well in the first half. We started with a 1-0 lead, we had Correa’s game which he couldn’t finish, Llorente’s which was a goal and Kondogbia finished it and it ended up being annulled due to Kondogbia’s ‘offside’. They grew as the game progressed and found our tension in the area, and they ended up scoring in the first clear cut chance they had in the game. In the second half…we have to continue this way because the only way to win is to have chances and score them. Fernando played well. Correa’s is incredible, not to mention Morata. We’re talking about plays below the arc to score. The goalkeeper did a great performance, congratulations to the rival goalkeeper. The match went into a back-and-forth dynamic where they were better because we failed and we lost these classic matches. From that formation of 5-4-1 with Reguilón on the left and Marcos on the right, we had a lot of power to attack. But we couldn’t get in front of the goal and the goalkeeper Fernando had a great performance. We get a point. We hope the goals will come at some point because they will. It’s obvious that we’re waiting.”
system change
“In the first half they won behind Koke, we didn’t get close to that plot. Baptistao extended Reinildo too much and we understood that by putting five we could solve it. We didn’t solve it. We were able to increase the advantage in the first half and in the second the team went through both systems again. We are waiting for the goal to come out of some important game”.
koke’s change
“We understand that we occupy the space better in the middle. But it was from minute 25 that they started to be better in the game and started to enter more from the outside. Especially on the right side behind Molina and made they were a lot of problems for Axel. Then we changed in the second half and went back to playing like at the beginning. Until the 30th minute of the second half, there were no clear chances and that’s when we started to see ours. Something appeared that Fernando with a brilliant performance and he was definitely the best player in the game. And we couldn’t nail these great plays that we made. We keep getting closer to the goal, I think the chances are clearer than Barcelona, and what we can do is that, keep improving it to find the goal, which is the most important thing in the game”.
griezmann
“He always has a goal, no matter where he plays. Now he was quite far from the goal. But he has a goal. He could go for a while like he did last season without scoring. But he always gives everything, he always gives us solutions in a different way, whether playing as an insider or as a winger or as a second striker, as a striker. See how to build scoring opportunities. More than anyone, he wants to get back in goal and hopefully on Wednesday we can find a goal from Antoine because he deserves it.”
Source: La Verdad
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