Diego Simeone praises Alvaro Arbeloa before Madrid derby

Atletico Madrid supervisor Diego Simeone has been complementary of his reverse quantity Alvaro Arbeloa, earlier than touring to the Bernabeu to face Actual Madrid on Sunday evening. The derby conflict would be the first assembly between the 2 managers on the bench, and Arbeloa’s first derby as senior supervisor, whereas it will likely be Simeone’s fiftieth.

Talking to Diario AS earlier than the derby, Simeone was requested about Arbeloa’s influence on Actual Madrid since taking on from Xabi Alonso in January.

“He’s doing an excellent job; the outcomes converse for themselves. There’s an actual reference to the gamers, and it reveals. Past the technical capacity we coaches have, there’s one thing further that’s evident. You possibly can see that there’s a shared understanding of what the coach desires and desires.”

Adjustments to Actual Madrid since first assembly

Past the reference to the gamers, Simeone was requested what variations he was seeing in Arbeloa’s Actual Madrid.

“You see it higher than we do. They all the time comply with the identical sample as a result of the gamers are the identical. They’re working effectively as a workforce, particularly within the Champions League towards Benfica and Metropolis, and that’s the sample they’ll proceed to comply with to maintain Actual Madrid’s aspiration to win every thing, as all the time.”

‘Everybody has their ups and downs’ – Simeone on Julian Alvarez

Constructive information for Los Colchoneros towards Tottenham Hotspur was that Julian Alvarez seemed again to his finest in London, scoring an excellent opening purpose.

“He’s an individual, and like everybody, we now have our ups and downs. We’ve seen what we noticed earlier than in the previous couple of matches. That’s why, when his degree dropped, we had been demanding to see this degree once more. We all know that the highway forward is rarely straight, and there are all the time twists and turns. And what I feel when there are twists and turns.”

Will Atletico Madrid rotate for the derby?

Earlier within the week, it had been recommended that Atletico might rotate a few of their beginning XI, following their exertions within the Champions League this week.

“I don’t know but. We’re nonetheless attempting to determine the place to place ourselves, whether or not to proceed with the rotations we’ve used after we’ve had Champions League matches adopted by league video games. Everyone seems to be extremely wanting to play, they usually’re making my determination troublesome.”

Actual Madrid have much more on the road than Atletico, who’re out of the title race, and are all however assured their spot within the Champions League locations once more. Los Blancos lie 4 factors behind Barcelona going into the weekend. Jan Oblak, Marc Pubill, Pablo Barrios and Rodrigo Mendoza are all set to overlook the sport for Atletico.