Atletico Madrid beat Catalan Barcelona in the first match of the quarterfinals of the UEFA Champions League on the field of super teams.
Barcelona - Atletico 0:2 Video of goals and review of the Champions League match After the end of the game, the head coach of the Mattress Men, Diego Simeone, commented on the performance of the powerful team.
" And it’s really important to play against teams that probably play the best football in Europe, like PSG and Bayern Munich. Our team's strong team players were able to backfire on them at key moments in the match. Rakhunok 2:0, giving us more performance, and Skoda, that we could not increase this advantage a little.
I could tell you the anonymous story about the matches where we took 30 shots and didn’t score. The pouch is miraculous for us, because the execution of the completed episodes was key. We were hitters, just like in many previous matches it wasn’t like that.
We knew that such a situation with its high line of protection could go down. Our team, which was in charge of their performance in every match, which we played against them, behind the blame 1:0 last year in the Cup. We have always had moments, just the combinations that we created.
It was important, because the Barcelona gravitationalists are good enough to squeeze, they are taking away your time with ball control. Voni won 22 of 23 matches and scored a goal. We know this, and it’s always important when you come here. We were brave, having caught up with this situation between Julian and Giuliano, which led to violence.
And then Sorloth, as from now on, being ready for anything, a miraculous shot in front of Ruggeri and completeness. A great result, alas against the supernik, which will make us suffer during the second week.
We'll try to play a good match at home. We need our fans more, so that the stench is strong and pushes us forward in the match, which, as against Barsi, will be important in the future,” said the Argentine footballer.
The match between Atletico Madrid and Barcelona will take place on the 14th quarter.