Simeone: "What I take away from today is how we interpreted a dangerous game"

Diego Pablo Simeone spoke in the press conference after the match at the Estadio Vicente Calderon in which Atletico took the win by 4 goals to 2 against Almeria . The coach was pleased with the team's work. "We came up against a team that has scored in every game and we knew that they work well offensively. They have good individuals and collectively, especially from the side of Rafiki, they attack well and have created some problems. But I think overall the match went well, especially between 12th and 15th minutes in the first half, in the 35th and the same in the second half. I think the most important part of the game we were strong, intense, aggressive and created goal scoring situations," he said.

Regarding the debut of the young Uruguayan in the central of defence, he said "Gimenez was good. He started his first game with the team, which is not easy. I always repeat that when you're young at that position it is always more complicated, but played a good match and it gives him strength to be bigger and better day by day."

True to his philosophy of going game by game, the Atletico coach said that "there will be time to talk about the Champions League match. No doubt I want to congratulate my players , let them recover in the best way for all that is to come, but today I´ll take one thing away, the way they played this type of games that are dangerous. They are a team who many call smaller but in the Spanish league, after Real Madrid and Barcelona, the difference among the rest is very small".

He finished by saying that "all I know is that we play on Wednesday against Zenit and we’ve just finished an important game of the season and we picked up 3 points. The championship is very long and we’ll go game by game and if we stay on track we will find more important things later on."