Add and continue for the captain and youth squad of Atlético de Madrid. Jorge Resurrección, Koke, played 600 games with the red and white jacket. Almost 50 more than Adelardo, one of the club's legends, and more than 100 more than Tomás Reñones. In the duel against Mallorca, he was also one of the best players in the game. “I feel young. I have more maturity and now I read the games much better, before I was crazier,” confirmed the player.
His coach, Diego Simeone, the coach for whom he has played most of his career, praised “commitment, work, nobility and respect.” Compliments, by the way, that he also made in front of his teammates in the locker room. “They haven't given him anything,” he said.
The now captain is the only field player who has remained since Simeone's arrival in 2011. In addition, he is the leader in assists in the history of the rojiblanco team with 102, one more than Enrique Cóllar and 24 more than Luis Marín. “I feel good, I'm enjoying it more than before,” confirmed the red-and-white midfielder..
Another who is climbing positions in athletic history is Antoine Griezmann. With the goal against Mallorca, the Frenchman broke the tie with Adrián Escudero in the list of top scorers for the red and white team and was only three goals behind Luis Aragonés. There are 170 goals for the small forward. A statistic to which he added the fact of being the player who has scored the most times a goal worth a victory in the league.
Javier Aguirre put the red-and-white striker among the three best players in LaLiga by EA Sports and his coach applauded his ability to appear in a match that was being gray for the Frenchman.. “It always has something different,” he praised.
Ovation for Aguirre
Yesterday Atético achieved the eighteenth consecutive victory at home, 16 of them in the league championship and extended the best streak in its history. He did it at the expense of Javier Aguirre's Mallorca, a coach, by the way, who would receive the third biggest ovation of the night after that of Simeone and Reinildo, who returned to the bench 11 months after his last presence. “They are very generous people, they have always behaved well and there is mutual respect,” Aguirre complimented the Metropolitan.
The red and whites are now third with a better goal average than FC Barcelona and they have one game less than the team led by Xavi. Although Cholo does not even want to hear about the clash that will face them on December 3. Match by match.
After these three points, Atlético now travels to Holland to try to close the red and white club's classification after last year's fiasco. In the first leg, Feyenoord caused quite a few problems for the red and white defense although they ended up coming back from three goals to two. And that didn't have the Mexican Santi Giménez.
The forward has dreamed of joining the mattress club on some occasions. However, with the level that Griezmann and Morata are displaying and the details of Memphis in yesterday's game, it could be a complicated fit.
However, the crystal lion returned to a call-up after the few minutes he played in the derby almost two months ago. Memphis has been away from Atlético for more time than he has been available and that doesn't exactly work in his favor.