Atletico Madrid boss Diego Simeone bemoaned his aspect’s wastefulness in entrance of aim after they had been held to a 0-0 dwelling draw by Espanyol.
Simeone’s aspect had 25 pictures and mustered 2.71 anticipated targets 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 invaluable level of their bid to remain up this season.
Simeone mentioned his aspect had been undone by a “lack of precision” in entrance of aim.
“It worries me, as at all times, however I can’t cease appreciating the great recreation the staff performed. When you will have 5 clear goalscoring alternatives like those we had?” Simeone instructed Movistar.
“Effectively, they didn’t go in, however the alternatives we created had been the results of our play, not by probability. We anticipated to win, however they defended nicely and we weren’t convincing. In case you don’t rating, it’s very tough.
“The staff performed very nicely, they made a really robust begin to the primary half. Then we dropped off a bit, that’s why we made the modifications. Within the second half, we didn’t have so many possibilities to attain, however we performed nicely.”
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Simeone made three modifications at half-time to freshen issues up, with Antoine Griezmann, Marcos Llorente and Pablo Barrios approaching, though eyebrows had 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 may additionally damage us and we balanced the center with Llorente and Barrios.”
