Simeone and Guardiola: two styles, a conversation and an unforgettable night

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does

not forget that conversation with

, when he was already training Barcelona and Cholo was still in Argentina.

He revealed it a few years ago in an interview for Movistar's Universo Valdano: «Simeone came a few days ago to see us train.

We talked and I remember that he told me: 'I don't like this, I don't feel it.'

Then I answered: 'That's good, that's what it's about'».

That first tactical meeting made it clear what would be the footballing path that today's Atlético coach would bet on.

One as valid as it is aesthetically opposed to Pep's.

Both lead a life on the bench and, however, they have only met three times.

The first, at the Vicente Calderón, a couple of months after Simeone's arrival at Atlético, was taken by Pep's unstoppable Barcelona.

The rojiblanco team was still greasing themselves with the mechanisms and the iron ideas of their new coach.

From the second, that Champions League semifinal with Bayern, there are still those who have nightmares.

In fact, it had a prominent corner in the documentary about Simeone (Live match by match) that was released last January.

"The feeling was that we were playing a different sport,"

, then captain of Atlético, analyzed with a smile.

"It's the match in which I've felt the most superiority from a rival in my entire career," added

, today the Atletico youth coach.

"It was the worst game of my life," completed

, MVP four days ago at Old Trafford.

That night, Pep's Bayern shot 34 times (12 on goal) and bingeed on close to 600 passes.

Atlético stayed at 32% possession.

"The bee is going to sting you"

«I am incapable of doing that to my teams, but I admire it.

At some point the bee is going to sting you," Guardiola maintained in that docuseries where Simeone, with his wife pregnant with their eldest daughter in the stands of the Allianz Arena, admitted something that was obvious: "They are games that you say: it can't be true what I'm seeing, we can't cross the middle of the court ».

But it was Atlético who won the only tie between the two, in 2016.

Yesterday, after knowing the pairing, Simeone praised Pep again.

"I have great admiration for Guardiola and for the work he has been doing in recent years," he maintained at a press conference.

It will be the first time that Atlético and Manchester City meet.

The citizens, who rule the Premier with a single point over Liverpool, have lost two games in this Champions League (PSG and Leipzig).

And the British Isles, Simeone, Atlético, are not bad at it.

In the blue team,

became a legend , today retired due to health problems, who did not want to be eternal in Madrid.

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