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Diego Simeone has not only brought stability to Atlético Madrid, he has transformed them into rivals to Barcelona and Real Madrid in La Liga. We assess the methods that have brought him such success 👇

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Simeone favours organising his team into a 4-4-2 formation with which his players attempt to dominate matches by occupying spaces, instead of prioritising lengthy periods of possession. Their sense of organisation is built on their distance from their goal #Atleti

Ángel Correa’s understanding of how to use movements to lose his markers contributes to making Simeone valuing him to the extent he does. He is consistently ready to make diagonal runs from a wider position to a more central one, often to attack a rival’s blind side #Atleti

Atlético are comfortable using a variety of defensive approaches; they have been seen using high, medium and low blocks; the latter, particularly, when they are attempting to defend a lead. When they are applying a high press, they most commonly remain in the 4-4-2 #Atleti

He has also continued to improve a team that has experienced the departures of Sergio Agüero, Diego Costa, Antoine Griezmann, Thibaut Courtois, Arda Turan and Diego Godín, and overseen the recruitment of João Felix and Jan Oblak, among others #Atleti