Diego Simeone said Atletico Madrid are ready to win the UEFA Champions League title after knocking out Barcelona on Tuesday to reach the semi-finals.
The Rojiblancos fell to a 2-1 quarter-final second leg defeat at home but that was enough to progress 3-2 on aggregate after their 2-0 win at Camp Nou last week.
Atletico, who have never won the competition, will face Arsenal or Sporting Lisbon in the semi-finals.
“We’ll go into it with all our hope, with total belief. We know the strengths we have and our flaws,” Simeone was quoted on sports.ndtv.com.
“We’re ready. We’re going to go after what we’ve been chasing for many years.”
Simeone led Atletico to the Champions League final in 2014 and 2016, with both ending in painful defeats by cross-town rivals Real Madrid. The last time the Rojiblancos made the semi-finals was 2017.
“It’s been fourteen years now (at the helm), it still excites me to see that the team keeps competing,” said the Argentine coach.
“The players have changed, we’ve had to start over a bunch of times, and here we are again among the four best teams in Europe.”
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Who is the first player in the world ever to score a europa league final hattrick?
Answer: Ademola lookman
Who is the first player to shatter beyern leverkusen unbeaten streak of 51 games?
Answer: Ademola lookman
Who is the first nigerian to score in a madrid derby game?
Answer: Ademola lookman
Who is the first nigerian to score in camp nou in a champions league tie?
Answer : Ademola lookman
Who is the first nigerian since 2001 after abass lawal who only made 6 appearance to play for athletico madrid?
Answer: Ademola lookman
Who is the last nigerian standing in this years 2026 champions league competition?
Answer : Ademola lookman
Who is the first atlanta player in history to get a ballon d’or nomination?
Answer :Ademola lookman
These are what we call global records not all these tolotolo records…lmao…
I could go on and on for lookman’s impressive, breathtaking, elite, prestigious and global legacy/records guys but my phone’s battery is low so let me stop here….
Hahahaha……you forgot to add ” the first Nigerian to score in the quarter finals of the champions league” as you previously did…..LMAOoo.
A little bit of Google would always help you to be less dumb….. LMAaooo
Once again, he whom the gods want to punish they first run him mad.
The same person that says “1st Nigerian “records aren’t worth anything is here now arguing with and against himself…… LMAOoo. Looking for what to populate in order to create an imaginary rivalry between 2 of Nigeria’s hottest footballing stars at the moment…… LMAOOO. Even the last man standing in a season’s UCL is now a record…… LMAOoo. The height of desperation…… LMAOoo
Hello….what happened to your usual “it is not even a global, first person in the world, record like the one their Mbappe and Vinicius always create”….. LMAOoo
Anyways…. whatever it is you are trying to prove…..I hope you know that a little bit of Google would always help you to be less dumb while at it……LMAaooo
And before your phone battery empties…..since you stay in a wretched hell hole where there is no electricity to charge phones, yet claim to be wealthier than the whole of CSN put together…..let me quickly remind you that a certain Nigerian got 5 MOTM awards in just 10 matches in one season of the UCL……and he remains the only Nigerian till date to have ever achieved that…… LMAOOoo. Same person is the highest ranked Nigerian ever in the history of the Balon dor Awards…. LMAOOO. Let me also end it there……but…..Clock it…!!!
I’m honestly surprised that so many intelligent people here keep entertaining this “monkey post” guy. It’s pretty obvious he’s been milking the “Osimhen” wave—not because he genuinely cares about what happened or about Finidi—but simply because of the attention it brings him. That was clearly the plan from the start, and to be fair, he’s executed it well.
What I don’t understand is why people are still engaging him. He’s clearly trolling and turning this respected place and into a joke.
The best thing to do is simple: ignore him. Stop giving him the attention he’s desperately seeking, and he’ll quickly realize he’s no longer relevant. Once that happens, he’ll fade away on his own.
I appeal to all CSN forumites: please stop feeding this behavior. It has now become a painfully annoying nuisance and has completely lost its essence.
Lmao…Seeking attention in a faceless and payless forum gat to be the dumbest thing I have ever heard!!!
Well said, Jayce.
Indulging that thing is one thing. Helping it to make a fool of itself time and again is another…….and I am up for the latter.
My responses here are not to indulge him, they are meant to help him make more of a ridicule of himself, and I am glad it is happening already……LMAOoo
The imbecile earlier on desperately rushed here to lie that Lookman is the first Nigerian to score in the q/finals of the UCL……..LMAOoo….until he received a knock from Dr.Drey as always. He has since been silent on that cooked-up record of his…..LMAOOo.
He must have still been in creche when Chukwueze’s goal in Munich put Villareal in the Semis or when Osimhen is no 1 nightmare scored at the same stage against AC Milan…..LMAOooo
So like I said, I’m not here to indulge him, I’m here to help him make more ridicule of himself, and I am glad it is happening already……LMAOoo.
He wants attention, but he gets ridicule……!
Isn’t that awesome….???