This Is Atleti

After 3 straight draws (with only one scored goal) in la Liga some fear the Simeone effect might start to wear off. The struggle to score doesn’t seem to affect Atleti in Europe. Rome witnessed an impressive match from our side which leaves a 1-3 in the first leg of the Europa League knockout round [...]

Simeone said after the match at Santander: “When you asked if I’d rather play bad and win I said yes. You (press) did not like my answer. Today we played very well and drew. I’m sure you’re delighted” Atleti did everything right today except scoring. In an excellent match vs Racing at santander, neither Diego, [...]

Ok, so we didn’t win…big deal! Who would have thought a month ago we’d have collected 11 out of 15 hard to get points and that we would have collected five straight clean sheets? With Gary down with the flu (get well soon) Derek and Ricky talk about the goalless draw versus Valencia which left a [...]

Four games in a row with a clean sheet, 10 out of 12 points collected, zero games lost in January, great attitude from the players, Godin scoring,… seriously… what else could we ask for?! For it to last! Gary and Derek ponder this week about the very important win against an always tough Osasuna that [...]

8 months…8 long months until we managed to get another away win and boy, what a win! 0-4 in the tough trip that Anoeta usually is for us (1 out of 13 victories in previous seasons) Simeone’s team is managing to win and convince the many skepticals that still doubt that the comeback is for [...]