Atletico Madrid -Baas Diego Simeone has offered a hint on his La Liga title strategy as the campaign starts again this weekend.
Los Rojiblancos signed up for the international break with a double frustration when Real Madrid controversed them from the UEFA Champions League.
Simeone was able to collect his team against the call to exclude the Julian Alvarez penalty against Los Blancos, but a subsequent defeat against leaders Barcelona was a real body run.
Barcelona scored four goals in the last twenty minutes to destroy the result in Madrid and Simeone and his players were left behind.
The former midfielder returned to Argentina last week for a break to charge his batteries for a crunch run-in, but his annoyance about the incident in Alvarez remains clear.
His team stands for five LA Liga matches for the end of April, plus a Copa del Rey Semi Semi Final Second-Been at home in Barcelona, after a 4-4 draw in the Reverse Cup match.
From the beginning of May, Atletico Madrid then has five more competition matches before the end of the season, including only one against a team that is currently in the upper half.
That could play for the benefit of Simeone if he wants to make a seven-point gap behind the current tempo-Setters of Hansi Flick.
“I really felt upset the first days after those games [against Real Madrid and Barcelona]”According to quotes from Diario as.
“As far as the title is concerned, La Liga will be decided in the last five games. Those teams that still have a chance in that phase of the season are the ones who will compete for the ultimate goal of the trophy.”
The Simeone team certainly still has a chance in the last few weeks, because of their last 10 opponents, only real betis is currently within the European qualifying places.
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