10 games are a more than reliable fork to measure the trajectory of a team in any competition. We have studied the data of Atlético de Madrid in its last 10 league games with astonishment because the unwritten rules of cholismo have been broken to unsuspected limits until adding in that period of time 10 points in total in this time. With these numbers, the rojiblancos would be fighting to avoid relegation in any season.
Let’s go with more facts, Atlético de Madrid has not kept a clean sheet in the last five league games and his average of goals conceded in the sample of 10 that we have studied reaches ¡¡¡two per game!!! It must be remembered that the rojiblanco club won its two league titles in the last decade, conceding an average of close to 0.7 goals per game. Simeone’s defense has gone from being a rock to becoming a sieve where rival teams wet by system. That Barça got four, that Madrid, Seville, Villarreal and Valencia achieved two!
We do not want throw anyone outwe simply want to put on the table some data that has led Cholismo to a situation of collapse. The team no longer knows whether to defend, whether to play to score more goals than the rival or to have the ball. Atlético has become a caricature of that team that put you 1-0 and that you could already play with Messi, Ronaldo and Maradona together that you were not going to score. We are talking about a team that is not reliable in defense and that leaves much to be desired in attack as it showed against the bottom team, who did not shoot at his goal.
Evidently all eyes are focused on a Simeone who, although he is not guilty of everything bad that happens to the teamYes, it is a fundamental part of some events. The squad does not believe in their coach’s message and is no longer as supportive as in the past. To this we must add various dubious alignments that did not attend to meritocracy and yes to the name of those involved. In addition, as if that were not enough, the team has seen its stars perform well below what everyone assumes with Oblak, Joao Félix or Koke as the main examples.
We put all the ingredients in the shaker and we get an unrecognizable Atlético for the first time in a decade and out of the Champions positions, something that had never happened during cholismo. There are 12 League games left for everything to be fixed or it will happen to Simeone like Luis Tosar in the movie Cell 211. It will be their own faithful who rebel against a style that no longer works as it used to, despite having the best squad ever.