The head coach of Atletico Madrid, Diego Simeone, emerged after defeating London's Tottenham (5:2, 2:3) in the 1/8 finals of the Champions League.

" We talked about it at the break-up and reacted at the other half, we could have scored the third goal, but it all ended with a penalty at our gate.

Mousso had a very strong evening, Cardozo was phenomenal, as was the pace and performance of Alvarez, Ganzko and Lukman. Julian demonstrated a wonderful cold-bloodedness in making decisions at the final moments of attacks. We have been replaced in order to remove the cards, but I am pleased with the skin of this moment of joy. As a club, that team is taking over the fact that our fans will celebrate the holiday until the quarterfinals.

The road to the quarterfinals was unforgiving, just like in the previous stages. We will have to fight the same way as before. It will be easy.

We are definitely in tune with the best attacking team in Europe, and we have the same enthusiasm that has always.

We must overcome the competition of Barcelona. “I have no doubt that this is the best attacking team in Europe, and the prospect of meeting them in the quarter-finals is a serious cry that we see from our peer group,” said Simeone.

The first match between Barcelona and Atletico will take place on the 8th quarter, at 22:00 Kyiv time.