A decade without dropping the podium

This is not the best season Atletico Madrid, called to fight to retain the league title, a goal that fell soon, soon. The rojiblanco team, on a “difficult and complicated” course, as he identified Diego Simeon After the last match played in San Sebastián, he did not see the necessary regularity (neither in the game nor in the results) to fight for the championship.

The situation became very worrying, because at a certain point, the classification for the Champions League is threatened, that is, finishing in the top four. The squad and the coaching staff had a plot after hitting the bottom of the defeat against Levante in the Metropolitano. A “League of 14 games”, as Cholo himself baptized it, where Atlético’s reaction was not only to fulfill the club’s goal, but to get into the LaLiga podium.

The rojiblanco team came in third, a position where he has not been with Simeone since the coach sat on the bench from the start of a season. Ten years has always been among the best three, with two first spots, two seconds and six third spots. Something historic, as Atlético de Madrid has never shown this trajectory.

HISTORY OF ROJIBLANCA

Analyzing the data of the sports technician and collaborator of ‘Maneras de Vivir’, Miguel Angel Peris, the ‘era of Simeon’ is incomparable. His graph of the historical positions of the mattress group makes this clear. During this time with the Argentine, Atlético’s average ranking was 2.40, that is, closer to second place than third.

Irrespective of the period that began in 1992, with the advent of public limited companies in the world of football, until 2011, when the cholos took the team, whose average rating was 9.90, almost 10th. And from the first League (39-40) until 1992, the standard classification was fourth.