Simeone salutes Atletico ‘team effort’ during Valladolid fightback

Atletico Madrid -Baas Diego Simeone greeted the “team effort” of his players, after they came back from behind to beat Real Valladolid.

Los Rojiblancos moved in three points from second place Real Madrid and Zeven from Laliga leaders Barcelona, ​​after a 4-2 victory in Riyad Air Metropolitano on Monday.

Just like in their previous match against Sevilla, Atletico fell behind the Penalty of Mamadou Sylla, but the spot kick of Julian Alvarez and a Giuliano Simeone goal turned around.

The bent free kick from Javi Sanchez on the bottom of Laliga again on the bottom of Laliga, but a second Alvarez penalty was followed by Alexander Sorloth who later sealed the points.

Atleti has now demanded 23 points of winning positions in LaLiga this season, more than any other side in the Big Five European Leagues.

“It happened against Sevilla and today,” said Simeone reporters during his press conference after the game. “The goals of Valladolid were by chance.

“What is important is the team's reaction, the penalty and the goal of Giuliano came, then we delayed the game again, but then it went as we wanted.

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“We know that there is no such thing as a simple game. There will always be difficult moments. You can't always control the game.

“There are things that you cannot check and that happened today. But today we were able to work well with team efforts, as we did the entire season.”

In the meantime, Simeone paid tribute to his son Giuliano, who this season set off his fifth goal in all competitions in all competitions.

And the Atletico boss recognized his surprise due to the quality of the performance levels of the winger during the campaign.

“I didn't expect him to perform like that,” he added. “I expected that he would help us, so I thought he would have another player in the team.

“To be honest, he has a great season, and hopefully he can keep it up. Nobody has given him anything for free, and nobody will give it to him. He knows, he knows me better than anyone.”