Winner of FC Barcelona (2-1) last night with Atlético Madrid, Diego Simeone had a classy reaction towards the Blaugranas: “I'm happy, I can't lie. The team suffered. Barcelona play very well, they attack all the time. Today (Saturday), we had an excellent defensive evening together, with Oblak in the lead. This allowed us to survive. (…) I have no doubt that not all the matches lost by Barcelona deserved to be lost. With Leganés and Las Palmas they had a lot of chances to score, but football knows these kinds of situations. When the goal doesn't come, it starts to become a problem” he said before greeting his team's second period: “The second half was more competitive. We had De Paul's goal which brought the score to 1-1. They had a lot of chances. We were lucky to be consistent. You can be messy attacking so much. The team was patient and took advantage of a counter-attack to score a great goal. Sorloth's goal is a great goal.“
A victory on his father's birthday
He then continued: “The players are ready for the competition. What is strongest is the group. The group shows it in practice. Changes, when they occur, are really felt. This is what we coaches want. We want everyone to be on the same page. Our way to compete with two monsters like Madrid and Barça is to have the whole team playing well. We found each other little by little. We must support the players in what they do well and try to improve and structure them. We need to see that the team can improve. We went to Paris and the same thing happened as today. This is what the club has left as a legacy to all the players who have been here.” he explained before paying tribute to his father : “Today is my father's birthday, he died two years ago… it was a nice gift from him, that's for sure.“
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Diego Simeone had a very classy reaction after Atlético Madrid's victory against FC Barcelona (2-1). Winner of FC Barcelona (2-1) last night with Atlético Madrid, Diego Simeone had a classy reaction towards the Blaugrana.
