Diego Simeone equalizes Luis Aragones’ record

DBasia.news – Atletico Madrid’s victory over Levante is a distinctive memory for Diego Simeone. Simeone is recorded to have reached the record of the legendary coach, Luis Aragones.

In the match away to Estadio Camilo Cano, Wednesday (06/24/2020) AM local time, Atletico won 1-0 thanks to an own goal by Bruno Gonzalez in the 15th minute. An additional three points that has made Atletico firmly in second place in the Spanish League standings with 55 points from 31 matches.

Atletico widened the distance with Getafe in sixth place to six points in the remaining seven matches. Of course this victory was a relief to Atletico as they have been in a bad trend and had just come back with three straight wins.

For Simeone, the results this time were special because he managed to equal Aragones’ winning record at LaLiga, which is 194. Remarkably Simeone won it faster in the 319th match, while Aragones needed 407 matches.

Simeone now only needs one more match to make him the Atletico coach with the most wins at LaLiga. Simeone and Aragones both gave a LaLiga title to Atletico.

Both are also former Atletico players, Aragones is still Atletico’s top scorer of all time with 172 goals.