In today’s football there are perhaps no two coaches who make the difference in styles as visible as Pep Guardiola and Diego Simeone, facing each other from this Tuesday in search of the semifinals of the Champions League at the helm of Manchester City and Atlético de Madrid, in a challenge of an incalculable dimension for the rojiblanco team and their obsession to win the maximum European tournament, the only title that missing from your story.
So close in 2014, when Sergio Ramos’ 1-1 for Real Madrid in the last minute of regulation time caused a cruel extra time for Atlético, and in 2016, when penalties put everything in doubt for the rojiblanco team and Simeone; and so far practically since then -he has not reached the semifinals since 2017-, it is the competition for which he always sighed, since in 1974 he brushed it against Bayern in Brussels.
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He has it before him again, with the incentives, the illusion and the dreams that it awakens, but also the worries, the memories and the frustrations that it gives off every time he competes on a stage of the magnitude of the Champions League, in which, to reach their last final, in 2016, they had to overcome Pep Guardiola’s team, then Bayern, with a 1-0 first-leg victory and a moving resistance in 2-1 in Germany.
Those were other times for Atlético, who then clearly expressed on the pitch that they were a team capable of anything, of overcoming any barrier, to the most difficult, as a contender to even win the Champions League in his own right.
Now it is not. At least it doesn’t look like it, no matter how much he has chained six consecutive wins in LaLiga Santander or has won seven of his eight most recent official duels, including his recent visit to United and to the city that now marks everything for him: Manchester.
There is no tomorrow for Atlético in Europe without a good result this Tuesday, in the imposing confrontation of styles that awaits the rojiblanco team, but also Guardiola’s Manchester City.
The game will be at 2 in the afternoon and can be seen on Espn 2.
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