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Atletico deny contacts for Agüero 2008-09-26 06:40:33 Atlético Madrid coach Javier Aguirre commented on the news linking Sergio Agüero with Manchester City. The Mexican said that the Argentinian is happy at Atlético and will fulfill his contract.
“On the subject of him possibly leaving, he has a contract here, he is happy here and I’m sure that he is going to want to [...]
Simao out for 3 weeks 2008-09-26 06:13:06 Atlético Madrid’s victory against Getafe came at a high cost as both Maniche and Simao left the field injured….
Atlético Madrid won’t be able to cout with Forlan and Simao for the crucial next games against Sevilla, Marseille, Barcelona potentially Liverpool.
Simao was confirmed to have twisted his knee in the game against Getafe and will be [...]
Atletico 4 - Recreativo de Huelva 0 2008-09-23 07:08:27 Atletico de Madrid ended a magical week with another triumph. After winning PSV Eindhoven last Tuesday, the fans enjoyed another 4-0 victory at the Estadio Vicente Calderon for the third time in as many games.
Again Agüero
Confidence was up in Javier Aguirre’s squad after FC Schalke 04 and Málaga CF had both suffered four-goal reverses in [...]
Forlan on the side-line for a month 2008-09-17 07:47:50 After leaving the pitch in the 29th minute of Atlético Madrid’s victory over PSV Eindhoven Diego Forlan will now face at least 3-4 weeks on the sidelines…
Happiness wasn’t complete last night among Alteti squad and fans. Even after a superb victory over PSV we can’t be totally satisfied. Javier Aguirre expressed it this way:
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Agüero is from another galaxy 2008-09-17 07:36:25 Sergio ‘Kun’ Agüero showed what he’s capable of to the whole of Europe by scoring the very first goal of this year’s tournament and adding a second magnificent goal in Atleti’s win over a PSV
Champions League winners PSV Eindhoven were couldn’t stop a very inspired Sergio Agüero that lead Atlético Madrid in the Philips Stadion [...]
Valladolid v Atletico: FIFA virus kills Atletico 2008-09-13 14:57:54 It couldn’t be. Atletico showed what we feared since the beginning of the season: The team isn’t deep enough. During some moments of the game it actually seemed that the team is just Kun Agüero and 10 more. It’s clear that without Forlan and especially Agüero, the team is goaless.
Real Valladolid played an intelligent game, [...] Read more:virus
Aguirre against the FIFA virus 2008-09-12 13:57:34 Javier Aguirre will go to Valladolid without his main strickers. Forlán is off after a long trip with his national team. Agüero’s presence is, at this time, a question mark, for the same reason.
The two strikers, the top scorers of Atletico de Madrid last season, are arriving tonight to Madrid, reason why they [...] Read more:against
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Let’s focus on La Liga, says Luis García 2008-09-11 16:34:11 And he’s right. It’s understandable that the squad are over excited with the opportunity of playing the Champions League, considering that most of the players will be tasting Champions League action for the first time when they play PSV Eindhoven next week.
However, we have some examples of teams that, not being used to play [...]
Atletico de Madrid v Valladolid 2008-09-11 16:18:27 Top of the first division of the Spanish league for the first time in four years, Atletico Madrid
travels to Valladolid on Saturday hoping to pass another test. The expectations are high, after a magical first week of the season.
Atletico, which qualified for the Champions League this season for the first time since 1996 [...]
FC Barcelona 6 - Atletico 1: Embarrassing 2008-10-08 10:30:42 It has taken me 4 days to find the energy to write about one of the most painful moments as an Atletico de Madrid fan.
I was lucky enough not to see the 0-6 that Barça got three years ago in Vicente Calderon, so probably the game on Saturday was the biggest humiliation that [...] Read more:Barcelona
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Preview: FC Barcelona v Atletico de Madrid 2008-10-04 12:50:42 Tonight’s game between Atletico de Madrid
and FC Barcelona
is understood by many like a showdown between Sergio Agüero and Lionel Messi, the two most in-form strikers of La Liga.
Only three days after both Argentineans led their teams to respective Champions League triumphs, Agüero takes Atletico to face Messi and FC Barcelona at the [...] Read more:Preview
Atletico de Madrid 2 – Marseille 1: Giant Step Forward 2008-10-04 12:48:17 Sergio Agüero led the second Atletico de Madrid
win in two Group D appearances with a 2-1 victory over Olympique de Marseille as the UEFA Champions League made a triumphant return to the Vicente Calderón after 12 years. The Argentinean took just four minutes to show his endless class with a world class opener and although [...] Read more:Forward
Atletico de Madrid v Marseille Preview 2008-10-01 04:24:23 Atletico de Madrid
hope to overcome the disappointment from last Sunday by achieving the second victory in the Champions League against Marseille.
It seems that Atletico are not coming in their best moment after losing to Sevilla 1-0 and after injuries and fatigue caught up with Aguirre’s team. Now Atletico are facing their toughest month in [...] Read more:Preview
Atletico de Madrid 2 - Mallorca 0: Agüero’s magic 2008-11-02 14:10:17 Sergio Aguero offered a stunning performance on his return to the Atletico Madrid
ranks on Saturday with both goals in a victory over Real Mallorca
. The team missed him in the previous games but it seemed the right decision to leave him on the bench due to fitness concerns.
His scored the opener in the [...]
Atletico de Madrid v Mallorca Preview 2008-11-01 13:22:07 October has been a painful month for Atletico de Madrid
After a very promising opening with valuable wins against Shalke 04, Málaga and Recreativo Atletico had to show if they were at the level of the best teams of La Liga. The result has been rather disappointing. The defeat at home with Sevilla (0-1) opening [...] Read more:Mallorca
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UEFA penalty: Insufficient ban reduction 2008-11-01 13:03:10 Atletico de Madrid’s two-match home stadium ban for Champions League games has been reduced to one match played behind closed doors following an appeal, UEFA said in a statement yesterday.
Los Rojiblancos had originally been ordered to play their next two European fixtures at least 300km outside Madrid, with a home stadium ban for a third [...] Read more:reduction
UEFA should sort out their unfair penalty 2008-10-31 08:01:27 Atlético de Madrid have traveled to Lyon to defend today their appeal against the UEFA’s ground ban following incidents at a Champions League game. UEFA ordered Atletico to play their next two European games at a stadium at least 300 kilometres (200 miles) from Madrid as punishment for allegued crowd disturbances and racist insults against [...] Read more:unfair
Orihuela 0 - Atletico Madrid 1: Forlan’s goal was enough 2008-10-31 06:46:12 Atlético Madrid
achieved a comfortable victory to take back to the Vicente Calderón after they beat Orihuela 0-1 on Wednesday night.
As expected, the quality of Los Rojiblancos overcame Orihuela’s push and Diego Forlán scored the only goal of the game just before half-time as he picked up on a fine pass by Antonio López [...]
Villarreal 4 - Atletico Madrid 4: Why do it simple? 2008-10-27 10:01:55 Why do it simple when you can make it complicated? That’s what Ever Banega maybe thought before doing his unnecessary tackle to Capdevilla and seeing a well deserved second booking in the minute 37. Until that very moment, Atletico Madrid
had managed their 0-2 advantage comfortably against a very good team as are Villareal. After [...]
Platini: Shame on you 2008-10-16 05:14:47 I’m still in shock after the UEFA sanction against Atletico de Madrid. Since when UEFA think that they can sanction how the Spanish Police Corp act? Who they think they are, the UN? Does Platini
know what fair play is? I don’t think so. It seems that he can’t accept that his countrymen are doing [...]