Real Madrid vs Atlético: Simeone accepts that they could win the derby

Although he considered that Atlético could win the derby, Diego Simeone acknowledged that of the three candidates in LaLiga, Barcelona is the best team

Madrid – Diego Simeonecoach of Atlético de Madridexplained this Saturday, after the 1-1 draw against him real Madridthat its set continues “in a very good position” in the competition for LaLigain which he insisted that the Barcelona “is the best team”and said he had the “feeling, for many passages, of being able to win” the Derbi.

“Who is the third? We? Why? Barcelona is the best teamhe attacks very well, he has incredible speed in his players and apart he plays as a team very well, “he said Simeone.

“Let’s see if this Sunday manages to win in Seville and there is the table quite tight so that journalists have fun there all together,” Simeone added.

“We did a very good first half. We had no clarity in the last meters to take advantage of goal situations that we could have managed and resolved better.

“In the second half, it has quickly started with their goal and the crossbar play, with a slightly higher intensity from them and from 20 minutes we started having some important situation, when Giuliano Simeone slips, Marcos Llorente’s twice and in the end ended up leaving a draw where we both thought we could take something more, “said the press conference technician after the match at Santiago Bernabéu.

Simeone insisted on his lament of not having been able to “have the clarity of other parties” in “important situations, in counterattack, in duels one against one, one against two …”.

“We had the feeling that, for many passages of the game, we could have won it,” said Simeone, who pointed out that “the changes” of Alexander Sorgeh and Ángel Correa, with Pablo Barrios and Koke Resurrection in the center of the field, gave the team, ” Again stability to compete and get to the end with the possibility of winning the game. “

He was also asked about the penalty that meant 0-1. “There was an equal penalty in the game today in the afternoon, from Bilbao-Girona, and the referee had the same situation, the VAR called it and it was a little similar,” said the Argentine coach, who considered that the referee, César Soto Grade, led the “best way with its criteria and decisions at certain times.”

“For some, that of Dani Ceballos (with a stomp on Pablo Barrios) is red. Or at least call him to see him. For others he is not red. He understood what he understood, they did not call him from the VAR, they did not understand that they have to call it “He valued that action, while repeating that the referee made” a correct game. “