The ESPN FC crew react to Athletic Club defeating Atletico Madrid 2-1 in the Supercopa Semifinals.
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Already struggling with injuries*
And now Llorente kondogbia are also out ?
God help us against soceidad.
Supercopa final will be played by the two runner-ups…
Atleti is not Atleti. Whatever the problem is, they need to sort it out and they have to do it fast
There's a difference here. A lot of people think that Simeone's style of the 4-4-2 is outdated and that that's the reason why they've been losing. Well, that's wrong. The point here is, that the 4-4-2, defensive, counter-attacking football can and will still work, we've seen teams use it still to good effect. Simeone however, is trying to adapt to a more possession-based 3-5-2. The intent is there, but the IDEA of a possession based team has gone horribly wrong. I mean, he tries to dominate possession, by not pressing, and not trying to take control of the midfield, which simply does not work.
Drop Koke and play Héctor Herrera as a start, we need a center Back and a mobile center forward who can run. However, now we suffer due to lack of leadership and intensity.
Why can't you say club played well
Gora Euskadi
The can't defend full stop so they have to score more.
Season after season they get humiliated
Still they stick to Simeone
So who’s gonna win the draw? Man U or Atleti?
It’s time for Diego to go, it will be good for him and the club. Same system for the past 10 years, the style doesn’t work anymore and his teammates are starting to not listen to him, so it’s time to move on.
I never wanted Atlectico to get to the final if not they would have made Real Madrid win so easily in the final.
Athletic walk out with a deserved 2-1 win after great performances from multiple players and you spend 7 minutes discussing Atletico Madrid? Straight up embarrassing
1:21 Iñaki and Nico's mothers?
Griezmann is injured ?
This pundits will heap praise when a team is winning…and kick you when a team is down…?
Man Marcelino keeps trumping these big teams from time to time but he gets no credit ?
Are they also proud of losing like Barcelona?
I hope Alaba is fit and Back for Finals against Atletico club
Hala Madrid ✊
Atletico played as if they didn’t care , no intensity , nothing… they just switched off after scoring , they would have conceded 4-5 goals easily if not for Oblak . Can’t believe this is the same team that beat Porto in UCL, only if they played half of the intensity they showed against Porto . This was just sad
Its a semifinal played in another country … Only a true Spanish team can make it
UNDERACVHIEVER
Sid said it for me. I feel like they lost passion. Winning La Liga got in to their head making them lose focus and that drive. Back in 2014, what made Atletico very scary was their passion and their willingness to leave it all on the pitch no matter the cost hence that formidable defence. It's almost like being losers is better for them than being winners.
Is K pregnant?
How come the beautiful Alexis was allowed into the stadium?
There were no women in the crowd.
Let's hear Shaka talk about the need to bend the knee again.
The defense is abjectly bad, and that’s half on the players and half on Simeone. There’s definitely a substantive talent drop after Savic and Gimenez in the back line, but Simeone’s unwavering commitment to start Hermoso and Kondogbia is absolutely not helping either. Realistically, that back line is gonna have to get heavily refilled over the summer; likely 2 CBS in addition to a trippier replacement
The offense is a standard Simeone offense… I don’t think that’s changing anytime soon no matter what happens
What happen to that unbreakable defense that atlectico had
Such terrible commentary, all about how atletico played horribly or haven’t been in form. No credit at all to Bilbao which deserved the victory. How insulting
ATM have the best squad after Real but just been overly trashy …I just don’t understand the sort of excuses Simeone would give now
Maybe he should give some of his players to Xavi ?
Football change that defensive is no more??
Their defense is just bad. They're not as organized as they were in the past. Atletico has not been the same since Diego Godin left. They've lost their identity which was rock solid defense
Diego Simone is a washed out fraud
Saudi Arabia has plastic fans who probably don’t know football ?
Crazy and sad how Spanish clubs are selling their soul for highest bidder. Playing their own Cup in foreign country for foreign glory tourist fans? How humiliating is this? They are willing to go to any length in order to stay relevant in European football. And even selling themselves to arabs wont save them from financial decline. Desperation.
Athletic Bilbao had a typical Athletico Madrid performance
It’s gonna be really interesting when Atletico Madrid play Man United
Real Madrid are the biggest club in the world.
Uefalona's pathway to 5 mickey mouse UCLs :
-Played against farmers in 1992 like Sampdoria & Kaiserslautern
-Cheated vs Arsenal & Milan in 2006
-Cheated vs Chelsea in 2009
-Cheated vs Arsenal & Madrid in 2011
-Cheated vs Juve in 2015
In my book VARça still has 0 UCL