Atletico can take positives from humiliating 4-0 loss at Benfica, Simeone says

Simeone equipped no excuses for their performance and praised their opponents for outplaying them.

Reuters

03 October, 2024, 06:10 am

Closing modified: 03 October, 2024, 06:10 am

Atletico Madrid supervisor Diego Simeone became company to contemplate on the sure aspect despite their 4-0 Champions League thrashing towards Benfica on Wednesday and talked about they had no longer lacked desire however had been merely outplayed.

“I continuously want to contemplate positively and I contemplate it be a appropriate opportunity to address enhancing,” Simeone told Movistar Plus.

“We had been doing a extraordinarily appropriate job, this day we did no longer play the game we anticipated, however now we have to address going.

“We performed badly. Now we have to accept that. We did no longer play successfully, the substitutions did no longer give us the spark that they gave us at other instances. We performed badly, they had been better and now we have to accept that.”

Atletico, who spent gigantic within the summertime switch market on blockbuster signings esteem Julian Alvarez and Conor Gallagher, done the match without a photographs heading within the accurate route.

Benfica would possibly also without considerations like won by a bigger margin if it weren’t for a string of saves from Atletico goalkeeper Jan Oblak all the way in which by the game.

“There became no lack of stress, attitude or desire to crawl, we appropriate performed badly and whilst you happen to play badly that you just might also very successfully be exposed to losses esteem this,” Simeone talked about.

“We had been doing a extraordinarily appropriate job and this day the game that you just do no longer desire to request appeared.”

“Some nights are no longer appropriate and now we have to accept them and strive to learn from what we had to battle by this day and fetch better vitality for Sunday’s LaLiga game (at Genuine Sociedad).”