Simeone rues Atleti´s profligacy in Espanyol draw

Atletico Madrid boss Diego Simeone bemoaned his facet’s wastefulness in entrance of purpose after they have been held to a 0-0 dwelling draw by Espanyol.

Simeone’s facet had 25 photographs and mustered 2.71 anticipated objectives on Wednesday, but couldn’t recover from the road in opposition to one among LaLiga’s promoted groups.

Visiting goalkeeper Joan Garcia made seven saves to make sure Espanyol took what could show to be a useful level of their bid to remain up this season.

Simeone mentioned his facet have been undone by a “lack of precision” in entrance of purpose.

“It worries me, as all the time, however I can’t cease appreciating the nice recreation the staff performed. When you may have 5 clear goalscoring alternatives like those we had?” Simeone instructed Movistar.

“Nicely, they didn’t go in, however the alternatives we created have been the results of our play, not by probability. We anticipated to win, however they defended effectively and we weren’t convincing. For those who don’t rating, it’s very tough.

“The staff performed very effectively, they made a really sturdy begin to the primary half. Then we dropped off a bit, that’s why we made the adjustments. Within the second half, we didn’t have so many possibilities to attain, however we performed effectively.”

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Simeone made three adjustments at half-time to freshen issues up, with Antoine Griezmann, Marcos Llorente and Pablo Barrios approaching, though eyebrows have been raised when struggling striker Alexander Sorloth, a big-money addition from Villarreal, was changed by defender Reinildo.

“We by no means modified the system, we continued with a 5-3-2 to steadiness the staff, which was beginning to break up,” Simeone defined.

“The opponent might additionally harm us and we balanced the center with Llorente and Barrios.”