Simeone: "I feel that the team is growing and I like that"

MADRID, 25 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The coach of Atlético de Madrid, Diego Pablo Simeone, has assured that despite the adverse results of recent weeks the team "is growing" and hopes that it can "show itself" this Wednesday in the match on the penultimate day of the phase Champions League group game against Bayer Leverkusen.

"I feel that the team is growing, and I like that. Hopefully it can be shown tomorrow," he declared at a press conference. "They are used to these types of games, they know the need we have, which is no different from what we have in LaLiga or in the Cup. We always have the responsibility and the obligation to win, now we have the need to win. the best way we think," he added.

In addition, he knows that the team is "forced" to win, and reiterated his "responsibility" that all players are connected. "If the players who enter do so at their best, it is because there is a whole circle of positive energy, and the first ones who have to lower it are us. From there, good things happen, but I have no doubt that our strength is not the ten that start, but the staff we have. If we manage to understand that we are one point higher than the others", he pointed out.

In another order of things, the Argentine coach did not want to claim the support of the fans. "I can't ask people for anything at all, we have to give people. We have to transmit illusion, work, give ourselves as we have been doing for eleven years... I have a way of thinking about life: give without expecting", exposed.

Regarding the rival, he stressed that he has "a lot of speed up front". "Beyond following the team's line, from the defensive to the offensive, we value the virtues of the rival and seek from there to develop our best game," he said. "We are facing a team that has been recovering since the arrival of their coach, who will surely have hope in the 'Champions'. They have a lot of fast people offensively and it will be complex", he continued.

Finally, the 'Cholo' praised the work of the German coach, Xabi Alonso. "He has been an extraordinary player, a footballer of a tremendous class who has passed through a lot of clubs, also in Germany, and has left something very strong in the people of Germany, which has given him the beautiful opportunity to lead a great team. He is working with great enthusiasm, with a lot of dedication, it can be seen that the team is looking to lower what he did at Real Sociedad B. He has a very clear idea of ​​what he wants from football", he concluded.