Simeone: "We still depend on ourselves"

Atlético’s coach started pointing out that "I congratulate Barcelona because it is a righteous champion. Since December until now it had a great reaction. I congratulate it because it is absolutely deserved. It is good to become champion when they could not do it last year. It is a team full of excellent footballers who can resolve at any time and has two opportunities to make the hat-trick, which is in its own hands."

Speaking of what the season has been, Simeone says that "for others, perhaps the Spanish Super Cup is a lesser title, but this team had only won one in its history. And we have won the second one, so it is not so little. But we are well, competing our championship with Sevilla and Valencia, we are three points ahead of this last one, pending one match. And with Seville close behind Valencia. The round of the coming week will be nice, with lots of adrenaline in all fields which are playing playing not to be relegated and the Champions League. We still depend on ourselves and at the beginning of the season we would probably have signed to be as we are now."

To finish, he said that "in 50 years we won two league titles. You have to work a lot and that is what we're working for, to be among the best. Three years ago we were third, last year first, now we are fighting to be third. It is very difficult to become champions. We will try to compete with our weapons seeing the reality. And our reality is to play the internal tournament with Valencia and Sevilla. And it is complicated because whoever wins will have played a fantastic season."