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Despite the attacking deployment in Bucharest, more than anything in terms of names, Atlético left again empty and with the European passport well crumpled.
The presence of
Joao Félix
,
Ángel Correa
and
Luis Suárez
, as well as
Thomas Lemar
and
Marcos Llorente
on the wings, did not serve as an offensive or defensive remedy.
The script was far from both.
His balance is one goal (rebound) in the last three games and the same against, this one much more poisonous, for the eighth consecutive game.
The fact is that what seemed like an ode to attacking football, ended up jammed in an intermediate point that
Olivier Giroud
penalized with a Chilean arrogance.
Diego Simeone's
plan
had ended up asphyxiated by
Thomas Tuchel
.
And as all the gunpowder, except for
Moussa Dembélé
, was already on the field, Simeone did not have much else to scratch to ease the pain after Giroud's slap.
«We understood that the game should be played as they saw.
The precision after the recovery cost us more to sustain the game and the game was very worked.
There were no chances to score, at times we managed to control their attack, we needed to associate better and have more precision, "summed up the coach, convinced that his bet, despite the 0-1, had been the ideal one.
"We are living in a difficult moment and we have to overcome it," he added.
"You have to take care of the details"
Koke
, the captain, also lived a most demanding night in the midfield with
Saúl
, trying to avoid the traps that the English set for them along the way.
«The team has tried to make the game that, as has been proposed, in the end we have not been able to take advantage of our opportunities.
You have to take care of the details.
We are the same ones who are first in the league and we are in the eighth.
We will go out to win in London », he warned.
And that the goal of
Jan Oblak was
not threatened in excess.
“Things are going a bit against us lately.
It is a bad moment and on Sunday this is going to change.
You have to think positively, the season is long with difficult moments and it is time to show that we are a strong group and that it is united.
That is the only way we can get ahead, ”Oblak abounded, unable to answer Giroud.
Suárez still does not make his debut with Atlético in the Champions League, where he has not scored since August, in that nightmare in Lisbon against Bayern, wearing Barça.
A good part of the rojiblanco European destiny passes through the end of his spell.
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