The former La Liga Champions Atletico Madrid have had a few bad matches throughout this season which have seen them fall from the first position in the table to the fifth.
Atletico lost all of their La Liga matches in December and fell badly in the points, until they made a comeback against Valencia to win 3-2. However Simeone’s Atletico have yet to go a long way to get back to the top as evident by their poor performance at the Camp Nou this week.
Barcelona beat Atletico 4 goals to 2 as they made their own comeback into the big leagues.
“We wait until we are losing before we start to play,” said defender Stefan Savic. “I don’t know if it’s something in our heads, but we have to change it if we want to compete in the Champions League.”
“In the first half Barca had four (chances) and scored three. Atletico had four and scored one. It’s all about being clinical,” said Simeone. “We have to credit how clinical our opponent was, and try to improve our intensity, aggression and concentration.”
The team has just fallen behind in terms of performance at the forefront with giant strikers like Jao Felix, Luis Suarez and Antoine Griezman all getting just a few goals throughout the season and failing to score in the big matches.
With a tie against Manchester United coming up in the Champions League just in a couple of weeks, Atletico Madrid need to get back into form or at least come up with a formation that helps and cushions their current form.