Diego Simeone made news again, but not because of the streak of adverse results as he suffered weeks ago in the Spanish La Liga and the Copa del Rey. This time, Cholo won all the covers of the newspapers for the historic qualification to the Champions League quarterfinals.
His Atletico Madrid eliminated none other than Manchester United at the legendary Old Trafford. After the 1-1 draw at Wanda Metropolitano, the rematch went to Colchonero thanks to the goal of Brazilian Renán Lodi. In this way, Cristiano Ronaldo's Red Devils bid farewell to the most important club competition in Europe.
With this global 2-1 win, Atlético de Madrid advanced to the Champions League quarterfinals for the sixth time in nine editions with Diego Pablo Simeone as coach, since the 2013-2014 season. Until the arrival of the Argentine coach, the Spanish team had reached that stage only five times between the 1955-1956 and 2010-2011 seasons.
In addition, since Cholo made his debut in the Champions League, only Pep Guardiola reached the quarterfinals more times. The Spanish coach did it eight times, while German Jürgen Klopp completed the podium with five times.
Meanwhile, according to data provided by Silvio Maverino, Atletico Madrid de Simeone became the first cast in Champions League history to eliminate three different English teams that were champions in the competition in direct crosses: Chelsea (2014), Liverpool (2020) and Manchester United (2022).
Simeone did not hesitate about those who question his speculative style and after qualifying he assured that the colchonero group “is not ashamed to play refolded”. “This is a moment of happiness because in this club there are a lot of people working to make things go well, involved to emerge from the irregularity that haunts us in the last month and a half, and when the team works as such, I am very excited,” said Cholo at the press conference reproduced by DPA.
” This team is not ashamed of playing backwards and knowing what needs to be done to avoid fitting in against a team with many options such as Manchester United. We could have even hurt on several occasions, but the goal appeared before the end of the first half and in the second half we made one of the highest defensive efforts of the season,” said after 1-0 with goal by Brazilian Renán Lodi.
The irregularity to which the DT referred, who will turn 52 on the 28th of next month, came “after a brilliant season. To have been champions after an extraordinary year in La Liga. And now it's hard for us to regularity. But lately we showed another energy and now the transitions are much faster and in the counterattack we can hurt rivals, something very important for us.”
“Afterwards, the way to win the Champions League we know what it is, but right now the first thing that concerns us and worries us is the next league match against Rayo Vallecano, because we want to give our club president, Enrique Cerezo, a victory in his 1,000 official matches at the head of the institution,” he revealed. “And on that route it is surely not easy to beat United in Manchester today, Chelsea or Liverpool also in England, and that is why all these memories will not be forgotten and will last forever”, completed an exultant Simeone as it was not seen for quite some time.
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