Diego Simeone
Atlético MadridGarcia Pimienta
Las Palmas
Meeting Highlights…BEING A COACH
It's a billion times better to be a player. You play, you only think about the game, about what the team or the group asks for. You play and externalize what happens to you. As a coach you have to manage everything and you have to transmit security, conviction, belief and it is not easy to express it sometimes, but we work to find it.
…INJURY REPORT
Giménez will be with the group next week. We have to get him back, we need him, he is very important for the defense. Regarding Morata, he is fine, we hope that he can be fresh and well to face this important match that we have ahead of us.
…GRIEZMANN
He is a player who gives us a lot of things all the time. In these last games he is playing very often. We left him out with Rayo. He manages himself very well on the field. He manages game situations to coexist with the game. We hope that he manages to be important, as he always does, despite the load of games that he carries on his body.
Diego Simeone
Manager on Atlético Madrid…BEING A COACH
It's a billion times better to be a player. You play, you only think about the game, about what the team or the group asks for. You play and externalize what happens to you. As a coach you have to manage everything and you have to transmit security, conviction, belief and it is not easy to express it sometimes, but we work to find it.
…INJURY REPORT
Giménez will be with the group next week. We have to get him back, we need him, he is very important for the defense. Regarding Morata, he is fine, we hope that he can be fresh and well to face this important match that we have ahead of us.
…GRIEZMANN
He is a player who gives us a lot of things all the time. In these last games he is playing very often. We left him out with Rayo. He manages himself very well on the field. He manages game situations to coexist with the game. We hope that he manages to be important, as he always does, despite the load of games that he carries on his body.
Garcia Pimienta
Manager on Las Palmas…ATLETICO
You see Atlético's numbers at home and they are scary, so you have to be competitive and play on your own and make the game long and not lose face. They are a great team, which fights for all the objectives at the beginning of the season , League, Champions and Copa del Rey and that is why you have to go out and play and not lose respect for your rival.
…ABOUT MATCH
You have to know how to suffer when they have the ball and attack us, because they are going to create dangerous situations for us, be very organised and we must not lose facing the game from the beginning.
…MORATA
They are used to playing two games a week and I don't think they are going to lose potential without Morata. This year they play very associative football and they are using that defensive intensity in a different way. They dominate all records and we will have to make a great effort to beat them, even if they do not have Morata.