Simeone: “We have a difficult, tough game, with a team that is playing better and better”

10/27/2024

Updated at 11:58 a.m.

Betis will face Atlético de Madrid at the Benito Villamarín this Sunday starting at 6:30 p.m. on the eleventh day of LaLiga EA Sports. Diego Pablo Simeone spoke to the media before the match and assessed various aspects of his team’s current situation before facing the green and white team.

Regarding the game he expects, he noted the following: “We have a difficult, tough game, with a team that is playing better and better, that has been with the coach for many years who knows them very well, who frees them, who makes them have a creative, attacking football. They have improved a lot in recovering the ball from previous years. “They will take us to a very complicated game.”

In the last game, modifications were seen in Simeone’s usual system, something that the Argentine explained in the following way: «I don’t feel that there is a defined system for a team. There are moments in the game that can alter it. You have to adapt to what the team and the rival ask for. I don’t see a team that defends the entire game in the same way or always attacks in the same way. There is an initial idea, but then there are many variants.

He also stressed that he asks his players to be forceful in both areas: «We always talk about forcefulness. Offensive forcefulness makes you better, defensive forcefulness makes you better. That’s what football moves about. “The team that is better in those situations will always be the one that will be closest to winning.”