Game after game and without making much noise, teh Atlético de Madrid Barça are stalking the La liga leadership. The rojiblancos are having their best moment of the season. The win against Real Valladolid means the seventh win in a row among all competitions, which was tied for the second-best winning streak as then Simon headed the mattress bench in 2012.
After a disappointing blank season where Atlético also finished fourth in the league, with Girona higher, the club decided to invest in the summer 185 million euros to once again make a team that can fight head-to-head with Real Madrid and Barça in La Liga, but also with the bogeymen of Europe.
It was the victory against Betis at the benito Villamarín a turning point in the season of atlético de Madrid. Until then the team was ten points behind Barça in La Liga and after the victories against Benfica and Lille, direct qualification to the round of 16 of the Champions League was also complicated.
A month later, the red and white team are in (provisional) second place, two points behind Barça in La Liga and just one point behind the top eight in the Champions League. “We lost a game against Betis, we played very badly and the team was not recognisable, that’s the break, we can lose or draw, it doesn’t matter, but it’s a matter of being recognisable,” Simeone admitted at the press conference after the victory against valladolid.
The best series won
After the victory against the Valladolids, the atlético de Madrid They have won their last seven games between La Liga, Champions League and Copa del Rey. You have to go back to 28 February 2018 to see similar figures. That season, Simeone’s team won eight games in a row.
According to data from Become a Soccer Prothe longest winning streak with Simeone on the bench was in 2012 when the team won Thirteen games in a row: Athletic Club; Chelsea; Rayo Vallecano; Hapoel Tel Aviv; Valladolid; Betis; Spanish; Victoria pilsen; Málaga; Royal Society; Coimbra Academic; Osasuna and Real Jaén were their victims.
Although Atlético de Madrid is in the best moment of the season,the Simeone’s speech Not one comma changed in the template. Both the players and the Argentinians are aware of the difficulty of maintaining this dynamic throughout the season, which is why they continue with the same beliefs that allowed them to overcome the delicate situation at the start of the season .
“We have a coach whose message is very clear and that’s what we think too, which is game by game. Let’s continue like this and work,” admitted griezmann.
