Atlético Madrid consolidates as a candidate for everything with prestigious victories
Atlético Madrid has given a punch on the table of Europe and LaLiga with its victories against PSG, Barcelona and Bayer Leverkusen. The team has shown a common formula to defeat these rivals: a possession inferior to 40%, a comeback and a winning goal on the buzzer.
Simeone’s game plan is based on humility to ‘respect’ the rival’s virtues and intelligence to ‘combat’ them regardless of how. Atlético has won on five other occasions after turning around an adverse result and has scored three goals on the buzzer that reproduce the history of nine other duels this season. The contribution of substitutes and the millimeter physical plan by Luis Piñedo have been key in these victories.
