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"Giro shuts down Atletico": the numbers and criticism of Simeone
The "S" did not like the Colchoneros coach's game plan in a 1-0 loss to Chelsea.
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Wednesday, 24 February 2021, 00:07
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His peak season in the Champions League.
Olivier Giroud (Photo: Reuters)
Chelsea took a significant step towards the Champions League quarter-finals tonight (Tuesday), thanks to a number by Olivier Giroud that made it 0-1 over Atletico Madrid ahead of the rematch in London.
Diego Simeone chose Bucharest as Atletico's "home" for the meeting, given the fact that there are no permits to bring flights from Britain to Spain, but this time the stadium in the Romanian capital did not face Colchoneros as in the 2012 Europa League final.
And in light of the statistics of the two teams from the past and the crisis in which the Spanish league leads, the chances of a change are not really high.
The Madrid "A" criticized Simeone's game plan, which "just wanted to reciprocate with 0: 0", and read in the headline: "Jiro turned off Atletico".
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For the first time his Atletico absorbs in eight games in a row.
Diego Simeone (Photo: Reuters)
The numbers
* This is the 14th time Chelsea have won their first game in a European knockout.
In all the previous 13 times she has also passed a stage.
* In addition, Atletico Madrid have never had a European knockout after a home loss.
She tried seven times, and in all of them she failed.
Diego Simeone has never lost a home knockout game in the Champions League as Atletico Madrid coach, and he can at least say that figure is maintained in light of the fact that the game was held in Bucharest.
* This is the first time in the Simeone era that Atletico has absorbed in eight consecutive games.
The last time this happened was in May 2010, with Kika Sanchez Flores on the lines.
* At 34 and 146 days old, Olivier Giroud has become the oldest player to score for Chelsea in a knockout match in the Champions League.
* This is Giro's record season in the Champions League, with six goals (all in the last three away games) and in total he has scored 15 goals in the 16 games he has played in the Chelsea uniform in the Champions League and Europa League.
* Giro is the first Chelsea player to reach six goals in the Champions League campaign since Didier Drogba in the 2011/12 winning season.
* Only Lewandowski (27), Messi (19) and Holland (18) have scored more than Giro in the European frames since the start of the 2018/19 season.
* Thomas Tuchel, who has become the second to coach two teams in one season in the Champions League (after Ronald Koeman in 2007/08), is the third Chelsea coach to win his first Champions League game when it comes to the deciding stages.
Before him did it Roberto Di Matteo and Jose Hiddink.
* Edouard Mandy has kept a clean sheet for the fifth time this season in the Champions League - more than any other goalkeeper in the factory.
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