The Atlético coach remembers that the whites have a lot of guns apart from Vinicius and tries to ease the pressure on his team: “We both play the same”
Diego Pablo Simeone is an old fox when it comes to derbies and he knows the best way to take the pressure off his team is to try and calm the atmosphere. “We both play the same. The result that comes out will knock out one and it will have it worse,” said the Atlético coach in the concise press conference he offered before facing Real Madrid in the quarter-finals of the Copa del Rey, despite the fact that the tournament It presents itself as the only rescue table for the mattresses in a season in which they have already said goodbye to Europe and are thirteen points behind the League leaders.
“We consider Real Madrid as a team. It has many tools to compete. We will take the game where we can hurt him,” Simeone insisted when asked about Vinicius.
Cholo appreciated Atlético’s improvement in recent matches. “I see him better since we got back from the World Cup, with a lot more offensive options to create danger and he works really well in a group. I see the group as committed, with enthusiasm and we are going to play an important game, a draw with a very strong team, with a coach that I admire a lot, with everything that Real Madrid stand for on their field and in their game.” be on it.
He praised the Real Madrid collective, beyond the individualities. “They have very important players, with only one highlighted. If he decides to compete well, he does it very well. We will have enthusiasm, strength, desire and play an important game,” he said.
The Atlético coach had words of praise for his Real Madrid counterpart. “Saying extraordinary is an exaggeration. The only thing I can talk about is the relationship with Ancelotti, only in relation to his facet as a coach, because I have no other, although I would like to learn because he is a very intelligent person… I can say that I I have a very good relationship. He seems like a great person to me,” said the Argentinian.
He was also in favor of scrapping extensions. “It’s a game situation where you shouldn’t go to extra time, but go straight to penalties… The personality of the player certainly has a big influence on those penalties,” he argued.
Source: La Verdad
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