Simeone disappointed after Atletico Madrid quarter final UCL exit at Dortmund
SIGNAL IDUNA PARK, Dortmund, Germany
SIGNAL IDUNA PARK, Dortmund, Germany
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00:00Pablo Simeone, you ask for the floor and I will give you the floor to ask your questions.
00:08Ladislau, whenever you want. You have to press the microphone and then turn it off.
00:14Hi Diego, good evening. Ladislau Moñino, El Diario del PaĂs.
00:18I don't know if in the whole of the draw, you can get the feeling that in the end it has been taken for granted.
00:28That when a team goes to look for the game, it has been taken for granted.
00:35Well, my interpretation is that in both games, the situation of goals that we had, the two teams, were always better than ours.
00:47Not to mention the first game, where the advantage could have been superior.
00:51In this game, we went through a first half where we had the first game with Ălvaro, very important.
01:00We couldn't solve it with a goal.
01:03In the second half, the team started the second half very well.
01:12They had goal situations. We also had Ăngel's, who was very good.
01:16He defined well, but unfortunately he went to the side of the post.
01:19They didn't have this type of situation, but they were forceful.
01:24Goals speak for themselves. There are many goals, there are four.
01:28It's a local one.
01:30We couldn't have the force that if we had, we would have won 6-4.
01:37But we couldn't.
01:40I think the effort of the guys was very good.
01:44In the first game we could have won with more advantage.
01:48Today, if that god of fortune came a little on our side,
01:55we could have found a result that wasn't what it was.
02:01To the right, Miguel MartĂn Talavera.
02:03How are you, Diego?
02:05Miguel MartĂn Talavera, live for the Arguero de la Cadena Ser.
02:08I don't know if it makes you angrier, because after a bad first half,
02:12you had done the most difficult thing, which was to get back in front of the tie.
02:15And in those fateful five minutes, what do you think happened to the team
02:20to score those two goals that sent the team out of the Champions League?
02:25I think the game in the first half was controlled by the left side,
02:34less controlled by the right side.
02:36They attacked us a lot in that sector.
02:38The counterattack we had was very important.
02:42We couldn't solve it well.
02:44And all the important passes always went to the negative side.
02:49Lino's 3-0 with the great stop of the goalkeeper in the Metropolitano
02:55put us 3-0, we were 2-0.
02:57At the start of the game I could have made it 1-0,
03:00and it wasn't.
03:02In the 2-1 or 2-2, I don't remember if it was before or after the 2-1.
03:05I think it was before, before the 2-1.
03:07And when we got 2-2, we were in the best moment,
03:11they scored the first very good goal,
03:14breaking well on the outside, in the same sector,
03:17where they hurt us the whole game.
03:19And it was a 3-2 goal.
03:21And the fourth came as a consequence,
03:24and evidently it kept us away from being able to tie it.
03:29At the back, to the right, Luis.
03:31Hi Diego, how are you? Good evening.
03:33Luis NĂșñez, El Mundo, here.
03:34I wanted to ask you about Morata's change at half-time,
03:38if it was a tactical question,
03:41if he was feeling well,
03:43or after that occasion,
03:45did you think that maybe Correa was going to be more successful
03:47for the second half?
03:49Thank you very much.
03:51I looked for what Correa did in the second half.
03:53To the left, José Vicente.
03:55José Vicente Trenet, Radio Nacional.
03:57In this tie, both in the first leg and today,
04:00in which both teams have hit each other,
04:02with different occasions,
04:04as you said in the analysis of the game,
04:07he arrives with the 4-2 in the 30th minute of the second half.
04:12In those last 15 minutes,
04:14he has been closer to the fifth of Borussia Dortmund
04:17than the third of you.
04:19Why at that final moment,
04:21the team has not been able to respond?
04:24Because we could not generate the situation
04:27that we had generated before.
04:29To the left.
04:31To the left.
04:33Hi Diego, good evening.
04:35In a week in which there has been a lot of talk
04:37about the parallelism with that resistance from Munich,
04:40which gave Atletico a pass to a Champions League final,
04:43what has been missing from this Atletico
04:46so as not to look like the one that survived in 2016?
04:49Thank you.
04:51Well, I think that for me the explanation is clear.
04:56We lacked force in the offensive part
04:58and we lacked force in the defensive part.
05:01I don't think it can be explained better this way.
05:05Last question.
05:07To the left, Rubén.
05:09Hi, good evening.
05:11RubĂ©n MartĂn, live for the Copa del Rey game.
05:13You talked about Ălvaro's occasion at the beginning,
05:15about Ăngel's.
05:17In the end, you are talking about force in both areas.
05:19As you say a lot in many games,
05:21I wanted to ask you if force can be trained.
05:23Difficult.
05:24Difficult.
05:26I think they are characteristics of more success or less success.
05:30That's why there are statistics.
05:32And you will see that some people get 80% right,
05:36others get 40%.
05:38It is part of this wonderful game that generates you.
05:42Can you improve it?
05:44Yes, you can, of course.
05:46But I think it starts as a natural essence that each one has
05:51and that some have a higher percentage,
05:55either in the defensive part, in recoveries,
05:58in not losing balls, in ball recoveries,
06:01in hitting the game, in goals, in no goals.
06:04That's why the statistics come out every day
06:07and they mark the small differences that exist.
06:10Let's finish with the press conference.
06:12Thank you very much, Diego.
06:14Thank you all very much. Good evening.