In Getafe, in the absence of ten minutes, Atlético de Madrid won 0-1 and ended up losing; Before Real Madrid had matched the round of 16 cuts of the Champions League before the minute one of the second leg was fulfilled and fell on penalties; And against Barcelona he won 2-0 and in the last 20 minutes he fit four goals. The final moments, of which so much revenue had taken in the future of the season, have configured a black week in which Atlético has said goodbye to the Champions League and its chances of winning the League have been reduced to winning nine or ten of the games that remain and waiting for a double bird of Barça and Madrid. The Cup is now the great hope.
For a team that during the era of Diego Pablo Simeone has presumed to manage the markers in favor as few teams in the world, it is being hard to assimilate that he lost the three meetings when he had everything to win. And more when against Madrid and Barça, what wanted to impose, defense and counterattack was played. Both concepts well interpreted by their players. If against Madrid there was a lack of force to expand the advantage, against Barça it crumbled with mere side centers. “You have to assume reality. The team is giving the maximum of what we have, ”Simeone concluded with a broken voice.
Atlético had those three transcendental games in his hand and the three escaped him in a mixture of details that range from the bad defense of frontal centers in Getafe, the misfortune and injustice that players, coach and club consider that they were the slip and the subsequent annulment of the penalty of Julián Alvarez, and the defensive and mental fragility exhibited after the goal of Lewandowski after 70 minutes after 70 minutes after 70 minutes after 70 minutes after 70 minutes after He controlled Flick’s team well and hurt the backlash.
When Sorloth scored the 2-0, Simeone outlined a smile that described a coach who in his internal jurisdiction thought that, seeing how his team was defending, the defeat was a chimera impossible to occur in 20 minutes. “We put ourselves with a very good result that nothing lasted. The 2-1 moved their energy and our insecurity, ”Simeone lamented.
Lacks and Griezmann
“We did not defend the center of the center of 2-0 to be strong. Lewandowski scored a goal and took us to that stage of doubt, they are good, they play very well and have great category players. We competed, ”said the Argentine coach, who also did a self -criticism exercise:” I had to put Giménez before they took out of the middle. They took out and marked. We started talking and the second goal came. ”
Marcos Llorente also pointed to Lewandowski’s goal and the mental weakness he uncovered in the rojiblanco team. “That a minute lasts that advantage is shit. This is a head game and they have squeezed, ”analyzed the versatile midfielder, who also alluded to physical wear and tear:“ Wednesday’s game has weighed us. We have come down at the end. ”
The demand, especially what Madrid and Barça impose, has also uncovered deficiencies. The team needs a left -handed side and a left -wing midfielder. Carreras (Benfica) like and Alex Baena (Villarreal) is a priority. But the logical physical decline of Griezmann (34 years) is also significant when running the backlash. In contrast to Julián Alvarez, where the Argentine does not hesitate to make vertical conductions alone, the Frenchman stops. The law of football begins to dictate that it is already more for details with which to make a difference than to give continuous performance.
