Atletico Madrid boss Diego Simeone bemoaned his facet’s wastefulness in entrance of aim after they had been held to a 0-0 house draw by Espanyol.
Simeone’s facet had 25 pictures and mustered 2.71 anticipated objectives on Wednesday, but couldn’t recover from the road in opposition to one in every of LaLiga’s promoted groups.
Visiting goalkeeper Joan Garcia made seven saves to make sure Espanyol took what could show to be a priceless level of their bid to remain up this season.
Simeone mentioned his facet had been undone by a “lack of precision” in entrance of aim.
“It worries me, as all the time, however I can’t cease appreciating the nice sport the workforce performed. When you’ve 5 clear goalscoring alternatives like those we had?” Simeone informed Movistar.
“Nicely, 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 properly and we weren’t convincing. If you happen to don’t rating, it’s very troublesome.
“The workforce performed very properly, they made a really sturdy 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 probabilities to attain, however we performed properly.”
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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 stability the workforce, which was beginning to cut up,” Simeone defined.
“The opponent may additionally harm us and we balanced the center with Llorente and Barrios.”