The Atlético de Madrid players who appeared before the media in the mixed zone agreed that the result against Almería was poor because the team had done enough to win. In any case, both Ujfalusi and Assunçao highlighted that their goal is to beat Rosenborg in Trondheim on Thursday and that they’ll have time to think about Real Madrid later, as the derby will be played on the Bernabéu on Sunday.

Tomas Ujfalusi commented after the match that “this draw is a bad result, especially knowing what our rivals did this week. Two more points would have been perfect. We had chances to have scored a second goal. The team battled for 90 minutes, we came out well, but Almería was well set up in back, particularly in the second half. The foul on Reyes may have been a penalty, but the referee didn’t call it. We’ve come out strong in the last few games, although we were missing a bit of accuracy in this one. We created chances but Almería’s keeper had a great game. We have a very important week ahead of us with matches against Rosenborg and Real Madrid. We’re focused on the one in Norway, although the one on Sunday is a derby and it’s a different game. I’ll repeat that we’re only thinking about Rosenborg.”

Paulo Assunçao stated that “we deserved the victory. We’re playing good games and we had chances against Almería in both the first and second halves to have notched another goal or two. We deserved to go into the half with a lead on the scoreboard. We can’t leave behind points at home as we did this time. Almería played on the counter-attack and made the match a bit tough on us. Now we have to pick up our heads and focus on Thursday’s encounter against Rosenborg in the Europa League”.