Gary Lineker
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And it just shows you how difficult and hard to please it is being a coach.
I mean, thank heavens I never went into that world.
I mean, obviously it's well paid, et cetera, and stuff.
But as you talked about Arvalo, but I mean, nothing seems to affect Simeone.
I mean, they're even, you know, every week now they're kind of high scoring games as well.
Always the criticism, wasn't it?
Yes, he's brought his success, but the football's a bit dour and defensive and counter-attacking.
But this season, I think they've been pretty entertaining for a lot of the games anyway, not all of them.
What was Eric's view on this particular match?
They've got, obviously, this is another kind of Spanish-English tie in the Champions League with Spurs.
Now, this is one that I suspect the La Liga side of things will probably come out and top them because Spurs are in a mess.
Having said that, they're in a similar mess league form-wise last season, even though they were close to the drop, but they weren't, if you know what I mean.
And they did win a European trophy.
I don't think the same will happen this season.
I think Atletico might have proved too strong.
It's a club with money, isn't it?
They've done pretty well.
I mean, he's still contributing, mainly off the bench this season, but he's still contributing in terms of goals.
And he's footballing intelligence as well.
Roundup o'clock.