As happens every time that Real faces one of the big clubs in the League, questions about the txuri urdin team are conspicuous by their absence. It is as if those clubs did not have a rival in front of them and any accessory issue acquires more relevance.
Yesterday the only question that was made to Diego Simeone relative to the Real had to do with Imanol Sheriff and the similarities of his career with that of the Argentine despite the obvious difference in styles: “I don’t like comparisons. Each one has its shape, its style, its search in consequence of the template it has. He has been working very well since he took the first team, it can be seen in the game, in the results, in the search for the associative game … With people at the top with speed, with people who play well and come from behind. And everything that Real Sociedad shows year after year ”, he said Simeone.
The Argentine coach was questioned about the tendency of the rojiblanco team this season when he was forced to come back in six games: “It is true that we have started many games down on the scoreboard. That shows that the team has answers because it brings them forward. We are concerned about situations of starting strong and trying to command on the scoreboard. Attack or defend worse, football is a team and, from my search, I seek to generate a defensive security to be able to attack well, “he explained.
Another of the tendencies of this Atlético de Madrid is the difficulties it is encountering to carry out its home games: “We always try to play in the same way, looking for what it is to get the games forward on the field. At this start of the season it is happening to us more the opposite than on other occasions, better outside than at home, but with the running of games and with the people who accompany us continuously in home games we will find the regularity that we have always had ”, assured the Argentine coach.
The almost certain loss of Savic and his taste for playing with three centrals will surely force him to have to shoot Vrsaljko or Kondogbia as central, something that is not new: “We value that Sime (Vrsaljko) can play central on the right as he did against Alavés last season; Kondogbia He can do it the same way he did very well against Elche, a long time against Porto, in the final Villarreal match. We have answers to some situations always thinking that the third center-back has to be someone who gives more play, such as Handsome, that we use more output as well ”.