Madrid, February 12 (EFE).- “We are very far from Madrid,” admitted Jan Oblak, goalkeeper, second captain and reference person in the Atlético de Madrid locker room; the best home in LaLiga, but a minor visitor, winning only 38 percent of the points away from home, 14 out of 36, and only 19 percent in its last seven trips: 4 out of 21.
There are already five defeats in the last seven trips in this competition. From 2-1 in Las Palmas, 1-0 once morest Barcelona, 2-0 once morest Athletic Club and 4-3 once morest Girona to 1-0 this Sunday at the Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán stadium once morest Sevilla, passed by the long-suffering victory in Granada (0-1) and by the agonizing draw at the Santiago Bernabéu (1-1).
They have lost in half (six) of their twelve games away from the Metropolitano stadium in this competition this season. Apart from those five duels, in their first five visits of the campaign they only lost once morest Valencia (3-0). At the same time, they tied with Betis (0-0) and beat Rayo Vallecano 0-7, Osasuna 0-2 and Celta de Vigo 0-3.
It is not new. Despite its reaction since the 2022 World Cup, with champion numbers in the second round of last season, Atlético has only won five of its last 17 away games in LaLiga EA Sports, between the final stretch of the previous year and the 12 exits of the current one. In that entire period they suffered eight defeats, in addition to four draws. Between both courses, he won 14 out of 30. Not even half.
The best of all at home in this League, with 34 of the 36 points (he only gave up two in the 3-3 with Getafe who played with numerical inferiority due to the expulsion of Stefan Savic before the break), he is the eighth visitor of this League . They are surpassed by Real Madrid, Girona, Barcelona, Real Sociedad, Athletic Club, Rayo Vallecano and Betis and are equaled by Las Palmas and Osasuna, whom they simply surpass at home due to a scoring issue.
“It is clear that it is a weak point”
Its deficit is now definitive. Real Madrid, the leader of LaLiga, thirteen points ahead of Atlético, has added 15 points more than Diego Simeone’s group away from its territory. Girona, second, eight points ahead of the red and white team, has achieved thirteen more. And Barcelona, third, now three ahead, has added nine more.
“It is clear that it is a weak point (…). In away games we have not been up to par. We have to think once more, like every year, regarding entering the Champions League. We are very far from Madrid,” Jan insisted. Oblak to ‘Dazn’ on the Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán pitch, following conceding the fourteenth goal in 12 outings. Outside he left a clean sheet in five games.
The goal was in the 15th minute. Atlético has conceded five of its last nine away goals in LaLiga before the half-hour mark. It happened to him in Seville, with Isaac Romero’s 1-0, as it had happened before once morest Real Madrid (m. 20), once morest Girona twice (minutes 2 and 26) and once morest Barcelona. Joao Félix’s 1-0 was in the 28th minute.
“We entered the game badly. It’s a story that repeats itself quite a few times. We have to improve,” warns Oblak.
“It’s not just a lack of goals. We conceded every game and that has punished us a lot. We started badly and the opposing teams often have two, three clear chances to score,” the goalkeeper added, among Atlético’s opportunities.
36 shots for two goals in his last 3 visits
Of its 18 goals scored as a visitor, the team scored seven in a 0-7 victory over Rayo, on the third day of the championship.
In his last seven outings he has scored six goals. He was left unmarked in three of the six. LaLiga statistics counted 16 shots in Seville for no goals. At the Bernabéu, he finished ten at 1-1. In Granada, when they won 0-1, he scored another ten. 36 shots, two goals.
“Absolutely proud of the players. Tremendous effort in the second half, with three, four very important scoring chances that were generated from the game. Today it didn’t go in, yesterday it didn’t go in ( once morest Athletic Club, in the first leg of the semifinals of the Copa del Rey, with 20 shots and zero goals, last Wednesday), but it’s going to come in… And it’s going to come in at the best moment. We mightn’t be forceful,” Diego Simeone warned following the match.
So far in LaLiga, the coach is already looking at the challenges that remain: “It’s not that we have few things left, right? We have the Champions League left (Inter will be measured on February 20 in the round of 16), we have the Copa del Rey (with the second leg of the semi-finals once morest Athletic Club, with the obligation to overcome a 0-1 draw in San Mamés), we still have to be among the top four… We have quite a few important things ahead of us.”
Iñaki Dufour
By: EFE
2024-02-12 08:59:27
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