He Atlético de Madrid faces this Monday's game against Botafogo corresponding to the Third Day of the group phase of the Club World Cup as an authentic 'final'. And is that the pupils of Cholo Simeone They play everything in the New FIFA Tournamentthere is no margin of error. Colchoneros need to win by Three goals of difference to advance to the round of 16.
In the previous shock, Simeone said he has full confidence In which its players can achieve the epic, being aware that the challenge is complicated, but not impossible. «I believe in my players. I have faith in them, I know them And I know they are able to make a great game. We have the obligation to win, ”said the Argentine coach at a press conference.
El Cholo said he hopes his strikers Julián Álvarez and Alexander Sorgeh be decisive, and also trusts Antoine Griezmannwho is in his worst streak as a rojiblanco player. «Surely tomorrow we will have players who have obviously generated a football that excites us and that excites us, and tomorrow I also wait for Griezmann”He said.
To stand up to the current champion of the Copa LibertadoresAtlético must be overwhelmed both in the defensive plot and above, since the mattresses go “behind numbers that are needed to win the game and to be able to pass,” explained the Cholo. About Botafogothe coach said that «has a very vertical gamea very position game, which clearly know how they want to attack and above all, how they want to defend ».
In this sense, “Our thought is to be a compact teambe a strong team, if we have to defend we will defend and if we have to attack, we will attack, ”he said. «This is football, it is difficult. We have a rival, I repeat, Copa Libertadores championwho has been winning these two games in the best way, in different ways played and we will have to take the game where we believe we can harm him, ”he said.
