Difficult to judge the start of the season for Atlético de Madrid… After a particularly ambitious summer transfer window and almost 200 million euros placed on the table to strengthen the team, the Colchoneros are struggling to move on. Third in La Liga with six victories in eleven days, they are already out of the fight for the title, already ten points behind Barça. The situation is even more critical in the Champions League, with two defeats in three matches, and the obligation to win against Paris Saint-Germain to hope to qualify for the next round.
Diego Simeone’s troops therefore already have their backs against the wall, and therefore risk finding themselves, from the start of November, excluded from the title race in the two most important competitions. A cruel but implacable statement of failure, while this season, the Madrilenians seemed to have the weapons and assets to do much better than previous seasons and not just be content with being the third thief and holding the candle to Barça and Real Madrid. Does this mean that PSG should expect to have a rather weak rival facing them? Clearly not…
A defensive base regained but…
This Atlético has even found the competitive genes that it seemed to have lost. The proof; if there were these big poor performances in Europe against Lille and Benfica, the Colchoneros are by far the best defense in La Liga, with only 7 goals conceded. It is also the Spanish team which has conceded the fewest xG at the start of the 2024/2025 financial year, a sign that these Rojiblancos are difficult to shake up. The only problem for Diego Simeone is that he will have to cope without Robin Le Normand or José Maria Giménez, back at an imperial level, against the Parisians. It is especially with the ball that the team seems to have the most gaps, with this deficit in creation and the absence of a player capable of making differences between the lines in the opposing half.
With an impressive offensive arsenal and players of the caliber of Antoine Griezmann, Alexander Sorloth, Julian Alvarez or Angel Correa, to which must be added the sensation Giovanni Simeone, the team still has players capable of a brilliant stroke in the last meters, and PSG will have to block and neutralize the links between the midfield and the attack to prevent these players from finding themselves in interesting situations for them. As several La Liga teams have already managed to do this season, like Betis. Weakened and criticized for the content offered by his team, Diego Simeone knows that a defeat in Paris would already be synonymous with a failed season…
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