Cholo Simeone’s reflection on the difference between being runner-up and second

This Sunday, starting at 11:15, Atlético Madrid will face Sebastián Beccacece’s already relegated Elche. In the previous one, Diego Simeone He was consulted about the challenge that his Mattress has to finish at the top of La Liga, with five days left to go. In the answer, he left his reflection on the difference between being runner-up and second. Look.

The Madrid team will be visiting the Martínez Valero with the possibility of defending second place in the Spanish tournament. In the previous conference, Cholo left a particular phrase about his team’s short-term objective.

“Runner up, no. Second. Runner up is underground. Down. Second is second. We do not look beyond the game with Elche. I think our objective is more than clear. It goes without saying what we think and feel. We always seek to get as high as possible, as high as possible, and we are not going to change.”expressed the coach about which word he prefers to use.

“We are going to face a team that, since the arrival of Beccacece, has improved, above all, the rhythm of the game in the rival field. He has good breaks from the second line, he has a number of crosses in the offensive part and they have tried, from what you can see, to have a great collective work in the defensive part”, analyzed Diego Pablo.

And, about the situation of the rival, he added: “There are no players who stay off the hook when you see a team that goes down and there you find players who don’t withdraw when they lose the ball. Quite the opposite. It is a team that plays compact, offering a good face when it has the ball and trying to withdraw as a group when it is their turn to defend”.

In addition, he referred to what it means play against a team that has already been relegatedquestion that “absolutely nothing changes”. “We clearly know that it is also a good opportunity for Elche to play a good game. And it is logical. It would happen to anyone who is in his place and it will depend on how we play the game as well,” he said.

“What I see of the rival obviously we discuss with the boys. We have seen offensive and defensive situations of the rival and we work on them the week in the same way,” he added in this regard.

If there are no inconveniences, Cholo will repeat again the 11 that he presented in the last league matches: Ivo Grbic; Nahuel MolinaAxel Witsel, José María Giménez, Mario Hermoso and Yannick Carrasco; Rodrigo DePaul, Koke Resurrection and Thomas Lemar; Antoine Griezmann and Alvaro Morata.

“Things happen naturally. It’s not from now, but rather, since we’ve arrived at the club, we’ve always looked for what best gave us chances to win the game we have ahead of us. And, consequently, we’ve behaved. sometimes maintaining formations and sometimes changing some situation that we saw or see that could do the team good for the game. We have not changed much in this behavior and now the team is having a regular line. That is the most difficult thing in the game” , ended.