With the cameras of the graphic editors pointing him, Diego Pablo Simeone without dropping it. Then, he gave him gardening and began to guide the risk mouths while his players, seven of them new, completed the last training prior to their league premiere this Sunday against Espanyol in Cornellà (21.30, Movistar).
Simeone’s smiles and the message he sent in the press room warned a coach who pretended to convey happiness and self -confidence “I am happy to be in the place where I am. I still have the energy that needs the place I occupy and I know the good, regular or bad consequences he has,” said the Argentine coach.
In the last two summers (355 million euros), the disenchantment of the fans because the team will not conquer any of the three titles that it fought until the end of March and the Batacazo to fall into the first round of the Club World Cup have established in the club the need to publicly exhibit the ambitions of the entity. The CEO of the Miguel Ángel Gil Marín club offered his thinking and aspirations for the first time before the start of the course. Extended in the club media on August 1 that still occupies a relevant place on the entity’s website. “We firmly believe that we are doing a template to dream big,” he transmitted the highest shareholder. In private, in the club they also slide that the objective “is to end in the top three”, emphasizing that the minimum enforceable is the third place.
Among the reflections of Gil Marín there was also a message to the coach and the squad when he reasoned the reasons for the fall of the team in the final stretch of the last campaign after the controversial penalty of the double touch of Julián Alvarez. “The team competed very well until the week of the Champions League match against Real Madrid. The previous match against Getafe already gave signs of what it represented for the locker room. He finished badly having his head in another game since the beginning of the second part,” said Gil Marín.
Simeone seems to have collected the glove that Gil Marín launched. “In these years there was a time when the team grew more than the club, then the club equaled the team and then it continued to grow and the team did not, and now the team needs another step to reach the place that the club has,” the Argentine coach was self -expended.
Hiring to try to melt expectation and reality have been given in all lines. A left -handed central (hacko) of good ball outlet, one right side (pubill); a left side (ruggeri) that has left the staff cold in their first performances; a midfielder (cardoso), a SUV in attack and star signing (Baena); an offensive means to invent (Almada); and a second mouse tip (scraper) to change and win the games in the area.
Beyond the claim to convert Pubill in Central, Simeone’s great bet in the eleven design that he thinks convenient to roll this course is Baena’s position, just behind Julián Alvarez. In the first bolus in Porto (1-0) the rojiblanco coach made him starting the left wing with free to get in as he did with Marcelino in Villarreal. In that game Baena did not have a brilliant performance, but appeared in advanced interior positions with a lot of hierarchy and left some details of his sharp game. In the second friendly in the Cerro del Espino against Rayo Vallecano (1-1) the Cholo already made him play behind the spider. In Newcastle (0-2) Simeone was convinced even more that Baena can give him a lot in that position. With ten behind the back, he is chosen to oppose the leadership that Griezmann exerted: he also has character, work and legs to exert that more continuous advance that aims to establish Simeone following the parameters of the current paradigm.
Baena (24 years) represents the biotype of player tracked by the soccer director (Carlos Bucero) so that the coach and the team can sustain that daring pressure that is now styled. Young and with lungs to run equally forward and backward. Although as always what marks the differences is the ball. Especially if you have a good time. Either short, long, with many or few touches. At that point, coach and players also feel the improvement pressure.
