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Atletico Madrid progressed to the Champions League quarter-finals on Wednesday, regardless of dropping 3-2 to Tottenham Hotspur. Final week’s 5-2 win on the Riyadh Air Metropolitano meant that Los Colchoneros achieved sufficient in North London to seal their place within the final eight.
As per Diario AS, head coach Diego Simeone expressed his delight at Atleti’s development, though he understands that harder matches are to come back.
“It’s a time to be comfortable. As a membership, as a group, with the enjoyment that our individuals will take this progress to the quarter-finals. The street whenever you enter the quarter-finals shall be laborious, as within the earlier conditions that we needed to attain the ultimate. We should compete as now we have been doing. It will likely be tough, we’re in all probability going through the group that assaults greatest in Europe, however we can have our enthusiasm to compete as all the time.
Simeone: Alvarez was unimaginable vs Spurs
Simeone was additionally requested in regards to the efficiency of Julian Alvarez, who was as soon as once more decisive in opposition to Spurs with one aim and one help on the Tottenham Hotspur stadium.
“His match was unimaginable, with imaginative and prescient of the sport, work, decoding all the small print of the match. He scored a fantastic aim and delivered an attacking recreation that gave us an opportunity to all the time be current, and that in any recreation scenario might generate a aim.”
Barcelona are greatest attacking group in Europe – Simeone
Atleti will acquainted opposition in Barcelona within the quarter-finals, and Simeone is underneath illusions as to how tough it is going to be for his aspect to come back by way of that tie.
We attempt to compete with Barcelona, who’re those we play. I’ve little question that they’re the very best group in Europe attacking, the opportunity of having a quarter-final in opposition to them is of a excessive degree and can demand that degree for us.
