Simeone, my man. How you have fallen. I thought it was still possible to overcome 2 goal deficit after Inaki broke the deadlock but once the penalty didn't happen, Atleti fell apart. Knew it was against the odds to pick them for the final, but Simeone's supposed to be the puppetmaster in the face of cup adversity. Boo.
How's oblak still in the post for ATM in 2024 ? That bro fell off a long time ago.
As long as Simeone is in charge, the team will never progress beyond its current level and will remain in a showdown of Real Madrid and Barcelona. Simeone is doing to ATM what Arsene Wenger did to Arsenal: the club's expectations are low, and they are only sucking money from player sales.
Simeone needs to go with his toxic football, Oblak needs to leave, and the team needs a modern-day manager to compete again.
It wasn't so much the age of your players but their experience. I believe you had a lower starting average age (Liverpool ended up lower after subs) but collective experience was well above ours. Half our squad had not even 90 minutes in a senior game, a couple had their first starts last night.
More experienced? Yes, Younger squad? No. You put the piece together so well, this is what I was expecting to hear and not the age thing that was trending.