{"id":788,"date":"2026-03-17T19:44:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T19:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/?p=788"},"modified":"2026-03-17T19:44:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T19:44:21","slug":"atletico-de-madrid-simeone-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/?p=788","title":{"rendered":"Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid: Simeone press conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>He <strong>Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid coach, Diego Pablo Simeone<\/strong>has praised the role of goalkeeper Juan Musso, of whom he has said that the team &#8220;needs&#8221; him. This is what he expressed in the press conference prior to the match against <strong>Tottenham <\/strong>in London, back from the round of 16 <strong>Champions League<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Atl\u00e9tico defends an advantage of t<strong>three goals from the first leg at the Metropolitano (5-2)<\/strong> and he will do it without Jan Oblak in goal, so Argentine goalkeeper Juan Musso takes center stage: &#8220;I hope he can continue at this level, because we need him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We always had good references in goal. Today <strong>Juan is performing as seen<\/strong> and we are happy with his work,&#8221; added the &#8216;Cholo&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the match, the red and white coach predicted: &#8220;<strong>We try to continue playing the game we played at the Metropolitano<\/strong>&#8220;We hope to take the game where we believe we can hurt them,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Colchonero coach has insisted on the need to score: &#8220;There is a difference of three goals,<strong> the best thing would be to be able to mark <\/strong>to lead them to a more uncomfortable situation. <\/p>\n<p>In that sense, he has downplayed the statistics of Atl\u00e9tico&#8217;s scoring capacity so far in the Champions League: &#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t stop at the number of goals to be offensive, <strong>we try to be as complete as possible<\/strong>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>Nor has there been a lack of reference to his compatriot Juli\u00e1n \u00c1lvarez, who this Wednesday could play his 100th game with the mattress, and he wished him to continue with it for many years: &#8220;I have already spoken enough about Juli\u00e1n. I trust the footballer we have,<strong> I trust that it will continue for many years<\/strong>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>The midfielder previously spoke to the media <strong>Johny Cardoso<\/strong>who warned of the danger of the rival at home: &#8220;We know that they have not lost in the Champions League, they are a very dangerous team.&#8221; &#8220;We have learned from the mistakes against Bar\u00e7a,&#8221; he added, referring to the first-leg advantage.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid coach, Diego Pablo Simeonehas praised the role of goalkeeper Juan Musso,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}