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Diego Simeone, coach of Atlético de Madrid, remarked this Saturday, after the victory against Betis (2-0), that he will continue to “bet” on Thomas Lemar because he trusts “in his quality and in his game” and regretted Yannick’s injury Carrasco, to whom he wanted to give “less” minutes.
“My footballers, to death with them always until the end. Obviously, Lemar is at a time where he is working to improve, the other day in Vigo he played an important game, the other day in Munich he did well the minutes he played and Today he had good things in the beginning with some that were not so good, like the whole team in the first half. I trust in his quality, in his game and I will continue betting on him because he is one of our footballers and mine are mine until the last day, “he said at a telematic press conference.
And he spoke of the rotations: “It is part of the decisions as a coach that we have to make based on playing seven games in 21 days. Therefore we have to search. Notice that Carrasco wanted to put less than what I put, because I saw that his game in Munich was great, that he had made a great effort and today he understood that beyond having played a great game he wanted to take advantage of fewer minutes than he had to play. ”
“Unfortunately he was injured and we are going to lose him now,” he added about the Belgian winger, who was replaced by “muscular discomfort in the thigh” in the last minutes of the match against Betis.
“So, although there are times when you have to remove a footballer who is doing very well, I compensate with another who is there to play and will do everything as a result of winning the game. Later, the result will prove me right or I will be criticized,” said Simeone who also spoke of two names: Kieran Trippier and Luis Suárez, currently unchanged due to the losses of Sime Vrsaljko, whom ‘Cholo’ preferred over Santiago Arias, and Diego Costa.
“It’s clear. You’re right. It worries me. And I’m absolutely worried about all those details, because football is a sum of details. We will try to find the best situations to balance and compete. When a new game comes, we have to win and obviously we have to generate that situation as a consequence of the footballers that we can put in and we will always look for the best for the club and for the team, “he analyzed.
His team has chained 21 league games without losing: 12 wins and 9 draws. In that sense, despite that streak, Simeone explained that he does not believe “that he is right about anything, because in football no one has reason at all.”
“When you come to a club, what the club wants is to win. And if from winning you can play extraordinarily well, it will be much more beautiful,” he said. “I have not met any fan who wants to draw or lose. Everyone wants to win. Obviously everyone wants to win by playing well and scoring many goals, but sometimes everything that one is excited about cannot be and they stay with the most important thing that this has. “, he claimed.
“In the first half, they were superior. They did not have many goal situations and we did not play a good game it was seen that we had had two important ones. We chatted at halftime, the changes improved the speed of circulation in the middle of the field , the goal appeared, we stopped better to press it … “, the coach reviewed, who pointed out that,” beyond the expulsion in minute 75, the team showed that the game had it on track “.
