After the 1-0 defeat away to Barcelona, Atletico Madrid coach Simeone gave an interview, and Felix, who scored the goal, was obviously an unavoidable topic.
Here's a quick interview after the game.
I'll remember the way the team looked in the second half and I'm relieved to know that the team will respond after the blow. We didn't play well in the first half, the season is still long and we have to keep trying.
Sometimes this happens repeatedly, life is unpredictable, another defeat in BarcelonaSomeday we'll have a big result here, we've already won a draw here and that draw brought us the league title and one day we'll win. This has been going on for years, and it's time for that to change.
I already told you yesterday that I don't talk about the opponent, I only talk about my teamThere were a couple of things in the second half that made me feel good.
Here's what the post-match press conference will take.
The team was divided between two teams in both halves. Barcelona were better in the first half, but despite that, we had chances for Molina and Antoine Griezmann's attack was well blocked by Araujo. It wasn't a good first half, but we had those chances. Barcelona were the better and Joao (Felix) had a shot saved by Oblak.
The second-half substitutions gave us a new lease of life and brought life to the central midfield, with Correa coming on and Lino as well, with Cesar [Cesar Azpilicueta] playing as a right wing-back and then moving to the left. I thought we deserved a goal, the goalkeeper made a good save for Depay's free-kick, but unfortunately we weren't as decisive as they were in the first half when we were doing well and had four chances to score.
They started the game better, they had a lot more character on the ball, and we lost the ball very quickly and couldn't attack, so we suffered in the first half, so we made adjustments. Then the team improved and there were chances to equalise in the second half.
We didn't play like we did in the first half, it was intense in the second half, you went back and forth, both teams were looking for chances, we were closer to scoring, but in the first half we didn't do much other than two chances from Molina and Antoine Griezmann. They were very resolute in the first half, Barca deserved to win, they won the game because they had the best thing in football in the first half, which was decisiveness.
I've been talking about it since the first question.