DBasia.news – Atletico Madrid defeated their rival, Getafe with a 2-0 score at Coliseum Alfonso Perez, this weekend.
Unfortunately, from the winning against Getafe, the new recruit in the team, Gelson Martins hasn’t shown a promising performance. He didn’t even play. Practically, he just played for 32 minutes since came from Sporting CP.
“It is clear that he is going to be an important player in the future. The championship is very long, there are many games and the best thing that can happen is that the moment he plays, he does well,” Atletico coach Diego Simeone revealed.
Simeone described the victory isn’t the team’s best performance throughout the 2018-2019 LaLiga. As we know, Atletico just won once from four opening matches of LaLiga this season. Consequently, the team got left 7 points from the standing’s leader, Barcelona.
Obviously, three points from Getafe signaled that Antoine Griezmann and friends are back on the positive track. In the Champions League, Atletico also defeated Monaco.
Thomas Lemar deserved the best player title of Atletico in that match. The first own goal from Getafe goalkeeper’s David Soria was created from long-kick of Lemar.
Next, the former Monaco player scored the second goal by utilizing the counter-attack. Simeone is very happy the squad could win in the LaLiga.
“Possibly the best (performance) in the league. The best was the Super Cup against Real Madrid when we controlled the game for the majority. We knew we could hurt them and played as we had trained to,” Simeone said.
“Getafe created some danger but without any clear chances and we controlled the game,” Simeone added.