After a defeat as tough as the one Atlético de Madrid suffered yesterday in Dortmund, it is difficult to offer an answer that explains everything that happened in the ninety exciting minutes that took place at Signal Iduna Park. However, Simeone claimed to have a clear explanation for the debacle: “We lacked forcefulness in the defensive and offensive part.” The four goals conceded “speak for themselves, there are many”, and the obvious missed chances by Morata and Correa support the Argentine’s theory, who added that between the two qualifying matches the red and white team had “better goal situations” .
Simeone maintained that the forcefulness that they lacked to qualify for the Champions League semifinals is “difficult to train.” They are characteristics of more or less success, part of it as a natural essence that each one has. The red and white coach did not assume any responsibility for a new episode of the defensive bleeding that is Atlético this season, after conceding for the eleventh consecutive game, and resorted to luck as an argument. “If fortune had been on our side, the result would have been something else,” he noted.
In addition, he praised the efforts of his players and congratulated Dortmund, the fair winner for the Argentine. «The players did an enormous job to be able to compete, we have come this far giving our best and we don’t have much more to say. We competed in the best way we could, but they were superior and when a team is superior it should be congratulated,” he said.
Koke agreed with his coach on the need to “take advantage of opportunities.” «Here we had to make a great effort, even tying the game, putting us ahead in the tie. That’s football, when you don’t take advantage of your chances, especially in the Champions League, this happens to you. We had it at home to finish them off,” said the captain. Despite the four goals conceded and the last minutes in which the team did not compete, Koke maintained that the fans have nothing to reproach them for. «It hurts us just as it does them, but when the team leaves everything on the field and has chances, fights, works and victory does not come, there is nothing to reproach. We will continue trying,” he concluded.
Apart from the Champions League, from which Atlético is saying goodbye, the elimination of Barcelona also in the quarterfinals guarantees its presence, at the expense of the Catalans, in the new Club World Cup, a “super success” for President Cerezo.
2024-04-16 22:15:45
#lacked #forcefulness #attack #defense #difficult #train
