Simeone: "I am at peace because I gave everything and I will give it until the last day"

   MADRID, 3 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Atlético de Madrid coach, Diego Pablo Simeone, assured this Friday that he is "at peace" because he gave "everything" in his eleven years on the rojiblanco bench and he will give it "until the last day" in this year and a half of his contract with the club that he faces "with great enthusiasm", at the same time that he recalled that the results are valued "at the end of the season".

"We are sad, we would like to continue in the Champions League and the Cup, but I am really looking forward to it, I am at peace because I gave everything and I am going to give it until the last day. I have a year and a half left on my contract, with great enthusiasm," he said. the Argentine at the press conference prior to the duel against Getafe this Saturday (6:30 p.m.) at the Cívitas Metropolitano.

Atlético said goodbye to the Copa del Rey last Thursday in the quarterfinals that they lost (3-1) against Real Madrid. The KO tournament was his great asset to 'save' a season in which he already said goodbye to Europe in the Champions League group stage and 16 points behind the league leader. For Simeone this is the "real distance" with FC Barcelona and Real Madrid. "It is what marks the championship," he reiterated.

"Then you have to wait for the end of the season, there are no evaluations in the middle of the season. You can never speak at the beginning of a second round, the results are valued at the end, we will have to wait," warned the coach.

The coach acknowledged "quite a few mistakes" in home games -they are the 12th worst local-, but asked that the fans not give up and continue supporting the team. "I never ask for anything, in 11 years I never asked that we be together. It feels like we need the people and that entire stadium when they react, when you live... When you talk about Atleti you think about your stadium, your fans and then about The team You play against Atlético, in an extraordinary stadium, with a fan base that doesn't exist in Spain.

And it is that for Simeone "the most difficult part of football is finding regularity". "It is not necessary to tell beautiful stories in a press conference, the field is marking the progress of the team, we are having a regular game, good intensity and we have to continue competing. The difficulties have been and will be to fight for the Champions League, and the objective it is always to be among the best. For that we have to play with the same illusion and all together", he added.

"I ask the footballers to continue playing with enthusiasm, to be competitive and show the hierarchy that the club has. Not to think about too many things, it is a sport in which having joy to play always makes those on the field better This is how the teams usually respond in the best way", he commented on the squad, which will face a Getafe that "comes with difficulties", although "it has competed very well" and "they are very clear about what they want".

On the other hand, and after the closing of the winter market with the departures of Matheus Cunha, Felipe, Lodi and Joao Félix, Simeone was "grateful" with the Brazilians and the Portuguese, asked about a hypothetical lack of harmony with that group of footballers. . "We have emerged champions with those boys. They have all been important in that championship, Felipe, Joao in that wonderful first round, Lodi against Osasuna when the League was slipping away from us. Cunha played less, but transmitted effort, will, desire to compete", remembered.

"Molina's present makes me very happy, he was highly criticized at the beginning, it usually happens, it is a club with high demands. It is the best thing that could have happened to him, he had an extraordinary World Cup, he returned calmly and confidently. He has improved defensively, He has earned everything from silence and work", assessed the current moment of the Argentine.

Finally, he asked for a "better communion" between Rodrigo de Paul and the rojiblanca fans, since he is "an extraordinary player". "He had very good moments in his first season, last season, in the World Cup, and now he is returning to that line. He sees more than the others and sees the game in the best way," he praised.