Simeone, Alvarez might be one another’s downfall at Atlético
🤔 pic.twitter.com/75tkY9EvR3 — DSPORTS (@DSports) November 9, 2026 On Sunday night, Diego Simeone offered another full-throated defense of the embattled Alvarez, who was at the heart of most things good — and also bad — from Atleti’s defeat to Barça.
Key points
- Atletico Madrid's Argentine coach Diego Simeone looks on prior the Spanish league football match between Club Atletico de Madrid and FC Barcelona at Metropolitano Stadium in Madrid on November 8, 2026.
- The tifo depicted a person in an Atleti shirt holding onto prison bars — obviously, a thinly-veiled message toward Julián Alvarez, who was not permitted to move to Barcelona in the summer after he made a public transfer request in June.
- Instead of these alternatives — well, Lookman, though it must be noted he hasn’t been playing well — Simeone preferred to move Julián out left, and de Jong never was troubled as he combined frequently with Lamine Yamal and Fermín López.
"MI DULCE CONDENA" 🔴⚪ 🇪🇸 Con este tifo, los hinchas de Atlético de Madrid recibieron al equipo en el partido ante Barcelona por #LaLigaEnDSPORTS.
We want to recover him.” The stats will tell you Sunday was one of Alvarez’s best individual performances of this calendar year.
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- He assisted Giuliano Simeone’s 10th-minute opener with a sharp left-footed cross, after Lee Kang-in switched the play to him with a pinpoint long ball from the right.
- But of course, the Rojiblancos never added to their lead, and Simeone’s second-half changes undid all of the good from the first half.
- Para llegar donde queremos necesitamos al mejor Julián, si no no vamos a llegar" pic.twitter.com/VyljMN66cg — Mundo Deportivo (@mundodeportivo) November 8, 2026 The stats say that is much more like it from Julián.
- His balance in LaLiga this season reads: one goal and two assists in 420 minutes played.
- After 54 minutes, Koke again sent Alvarez on his way behind Barcelona’s defense.
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