THE ARGENTINIAN REVIEWED ATLÉTICO’S CURRENT NEWS AND THE CUP’S KNOCKOUT ROUND

Simeone: "It will be a very intense match"

Our coach answered the media regarding this Wednesday’s important match at the Vicente Calderón against Celta de Vigo (20:30).

PHOTO: Álex Marín

Diego Pablo Simeone said at the press conference prior to the second leg match of the King's Cup against Celta de Vigo that it will be a very intense qualifying round. "We know difficulties of the match, it will surely be very intense and with two teams trying to win the knockout," he said. 

The coach stressed how important the King’s Cup is for the Club and the good moments this competition has brought us. "We try to play every game as if it were a final, we know the importance the Cup has, of the beautiful things that it has brought us, we love and respect it greatly," he said. 

To finish, Simeone spoke about how he faces the qualifying round against Celta de Vigo. "We are going to play it with the same resolve, and always thinking that there is only the match against Celta," he concluded.

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