Atletico Madrid midfielder Koke says the Colchoneros are not concerned about Antoine Griezmann’s form ahead of their meeting with Milan.
The French striker returned to Madrid on loan from Barcelona in the summer but has yet to score one goal in his first five appearances with the La Liga giants.
“We are not worried about Antoine. Everybody needs to regain their level, he does not play alone. He has the confidence of all and things will come,” Koke said at a press conference, as quoted by Marca.
“We have to be united. Surely he prefers to win than to shoot.”
The La Liga giants meet Milan at the Stadio Meazza tomorrow. They have collected 14 points in seven league games but lost their last match away at Alaves.
So, what do they need to do to win against Milan?
“To score goals and not be beaten. To be strong in both areas. To enter the games strong. We have to improve in both areas and we are working towards it,” the Spanish midfielder replied.
Milan lost their opening Champions League group stage game away at Liverpool two weeks ago, while Atletico Madrid were held to a 0-0 draw by Porto.
During his pre-match press conference, Atletico Madrid coach Diego Simeone said he is looking forward to returning to San Siro.
It’s the same stadium where the Argentinean boss played at Inter during his career as a footballer. However, Atletico lost the 2016 Champions League Final against Real Madrid at the same venue.
Atleti_Simeone_Lover
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Griezmann most be bench for sub and Felix Suarez to the lead starting along with RDP koke in the midfield. #AupaAtleti
AtletiFan-NY
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Literally it hurts to see our team going done cuz we want to accommodate a player in the team. And if it was someone loyal to Atleti shirt then I would be fine. We are compromising the points of team just to accommodate an out of form player who isn’t even loyal. And he played all 90 minutes that day
AtletiFan-NY
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We better should concern about it. We are losing points. We don’t have any fluidity in midfield either. And on top of that Suarez and Griezmann aren’t adding any attacking threat on even teams at bottom of table. We slightly won against Getafe thanks to one man down. We literally don’t have shots on target like what are we doing. Just to compensate Griezmann Simone stopped playing Correa at top since Griezmann joined team. And cuz of Correa form he started putting him in mid where he isn’t effective. And then dropping Lemar or some. Lately Lemar is injured so it makes selection easy but even before that he was doing this mistake
RJ-25
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its crazyy how a player can just decline like that bruh
boheilnrt
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second spell for costa failed like... an for griezy[Sadtolook][Sadtolook]