Leipzig’s coach Julian Nagelsmann achieved a real masterpiece against his coach colleague Diego Simeone.
Through poisonous duels and passionate struggle his team defeated the – actually – ripped off Atlético Madrid in a 2-1 victory with its own weapons. It was also emotional on the sidelines.
Simeone drove his team on as passionately as usual, demanding yellow cards and frantically giving instructions. “I won’t look over there that often, otherwise I’ll freak out,” Nagelsmann said before the Champions League quarter-finals in Lisbon.
During the game, however, the two coaches did not clash. “It was okay and apart from half-time it was calm and without points of contact,” said the RB coach after the final whistle Sky.
But what did Nagelsmann mean by his suggestion?
Simeone’s action remains hidden from cameras
“I’m not going to tell you in detail, you might see it on a couple of cameras,” the 33-year-old avoided. “He showed that he is a winter guy and always wants to win. I wouldn’t have done that, but everyone has to decide for himself.”
The incident could have occurred on the way to the lockers after half-time. However, one can only speculate with which action Simeone annoyed his counterpart in detail – it was also hidden from the TV cameras and photographers.
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At the press conference after the game, Nagelsmann briefly discussed his relationship with Simeone: “He congratulated Simeone very warmly and said that we played a great game. At halftime I just wanted to make it clear again that he was an incredible winner is that he also wants to win in the cabin tunnel and that I countered what was necessary. That in the cabin tunnel may have ended in a draw and we won the game. “
He didn’t want to dramatize that, but rather “emphasize that I think what kind of type he is awesome. That he probably wants to win even when it comes to Schnick-Schnack-Schnuck. So everything is good.”
Simeone praises Nagelsmann
Before the duel, Simeone had praised Nagelsmann in the highest tones and called him a “fantastic” coach.
Nagelsmann was there too SPOX said in detail about his Argentinian colleague: “Diego Simeone lives his job extremely. But he also makes many things conscious, one must not forget. It is not all free from the soul, but carefully considered. There is already a system behind it.”
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