With eight days left before the end of the championship, the Atlético de Madrid was only able to recover to fourth place after winning Villarreal On the last day. Plaza that gives the right to play in the Champions League, which is the main goal of the club to maintain the economic status of the entity in recent years.
Right now it is two points above the Athletic Club. He has 58 to 56 on the lions. Ahead is the Gironawho currently have seven points more than the colchoneros and on the next matchday of the league they have to visit the Metropolitan. A stadium where Athletic They have only received one draw and two losses this season.
The challenge is to finish in the Champions League, but the colchoneros want to finish LaLiga again in the top three as they have done in previous seasons. To do this, they must first get fourth place and then start cutting points in a Girona which he has lost in his last four visits, and which has caused him to drop off the pace he set in the first round.
Until now the Cholo When he completes a season he has never dropped to third place. And he had campaigns where it was not easy, like in the year of the pandemic, in 19-20 when the championship stopped he was sixth. And when he finished he was third. While last season when the World Cup break came, the team was in fifth and one point away from finishing second… Now Simeon want to preserve the tradition.
The challenge that he met season after season in Atlético de Madrid. His numbers back him up. They came first twice in the 2013-14 season and in the 2020-21 campaign, and then came second on two more occasions, while they finished third seven times. A real outrage for a team that hasn’t been in the top three since the year of Doublet.
The only season in which he did not finish in the Champions League was when he took over the team in December 2011. He brought it to the brink of relegation and it qualified for the Europa League, finishing fifth, having a chance until the last day of end of the fourth. That year he won European League and a few months later Spanish Supercup.
Source: La Verdad
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