Atlético Madrid coach Diego Simeone expects his team to play for the title next year. He didn’t think his team was good enough this season, but he doesn’t think a spectacular metamorphosis should take place.
Confirmation Simeone: Atlético attacker can go to Barcelona
With one game to go, Atlético could be second or third, but the reality is that Barcelona have become champions by a stone’s throw. In the background, Atlético is preparing the selection for a new year. “Caglar Söyüncü will strengthen us, just like Santiago Mouriño,” Simeone refers to the defenders of Leicester City and Racing Montevideo in conversation with COPE. “In the preparation we look at what else we need.”
Atlético may say goodbye to Yannick Carrasco. The attacker can go to Barcelona. Simeone confirms, “He has Barcelona as an option, so there is a chance that he will leave. If he stays, he will do his best and give us everything. I want the best players to stay, but if he goes I wish him well.” Reportedly, Carrasco has a buyout of twenty million euros in his contract.
Simeone is more than clear about the rumors surrounding Cristiano Ronaldo. “I never tried for him. They told you that, but I’m not lying. How many goals would he score for us? Ronaldo could not come to Atlético, just like I could never coach Real Madrid,” he mentioned.
Ter Stegen can become the best goalkeeper of La Liga ever on Sunday
In other La Liga news, Marc-André ter Stegen is on a record hunt and hopes to be crowned La Liga’s best goalkeeper of all time on Sunday. In terms of goals against. If he keeps a clean sheet against Celta de Vigo, he will break the clean sheet record and have the lowest number of goals conceded in one season on average.
The German goalkeeper has already kept his goal clean 26 times in La Liga this season. In total he only got seventeen hits to his ears. That equates to an average of 0.46 goals conceded per game. If he keeps a clean sheet on Sunday, he will become the goalkeeper with the most clean sheets ever in a La Liga season.
In addition, a clean goal gives him another record on Sunday. Ter Stegen then becomes the goalkeeper with the lowest average number of goals against in one season of all goalkeepers in La Liga ever. That record is currently shared by Jan Oblak and Francisco Liano.
One goal against Celta de Vigo could seriously ruin Ter Stegen’s season. In that case, he sees both records slip through his hands. Champion Barcelona will play against relegation-fighting Celta de Vigo, which is seventeenth in La Liga, on Sunday.
