Diego Simeone boasted of Atlético Madrid's memorable comeback with one less and with the score 2-3 [Video]

The coach of Atlético de Madrid, the Argentine Diego Pablo Simeone, valued after his team’s 4-3 victory against Getafe the merit that his team has for having known how to “reverse a 2- 3 to 4-3” having one less player, something that “is not for everyone” but that their players “made it”.

“We have to become strong, the most important thing is that reversing a 2-3 to a 4-3 with one less in the situation we are in is not for everyone, and the boys managed it today, ”said Simeone in the press conference after the match.

In it, he made a very detailed analysis of what he considered to be “three or four games that were played in one”. In them, he believed that the first 25 minutes of his team were “very good”.

“Of the best that we had been doing, very clearly, taking advantage of the forwards inside the area to add crosses and vertigo in the final part, we had a penalty in favor, we got 2-0, it seemed that the situation was on track, and the 2-1 goal appeared, which was one of the few shots to goal that Getafe generated”, he began.

“From there, two penalties appear that are two penalties but not at all influential in the game, Cunha’s on the side, Lemar’s almost On the line. And we found that a match with 2-0 with a penalty in favor, the team quite well, losing 2-3 at home. The team reacted, was calm and made it 3-3”, he continued.

For Simeone, Felipe Monteiro’s foul on Mauro Arambarri, a kick without the ball when the Uruguayan left alone, it is a sign of the team’s nervousness.

“The unexpected appears. A move that I value as the anxiety, the nervousness that the team has, represented by the image of Felipe. Any of us could have been Felipe. He could not stop, he is very big, very strong, when he launched into that play he did not have a good destiny”, considered the coach.

“The unexpected happened, expulsion, possibly all black , one less, 3-3, 20 minutes to play, and I think we had temperance there, the changes came in handy , they ordered us (…) We defended well, there were no shots on goal, and that goal appeared that makes us excited”, added Simeone.

The Atlético coach assured that his team has “the head up” and recalled that football is “sometimes very back and forth”. “It seems that we are paying what last season made us champion, because you have to be lucky to become champion, but I think we are paying much more than we deserve,” he said.

The Atlético coach considered that this ability to get up again is very typical of the club, and valued the commitment of its players to continue fighting to qualify for the Champions League, their current objective after being ruled out for the title.

“The team does not want get out of the race you have to get. Last year we fought to be champion and now we fight to enter the ‘Champions’, and we have to accept it because it’s reality. We need to enter ‘Champions’, and to enter we need the people, the footballers, the leaders and us”, he stated.