{"id":471725,"date":"2026-02-16T09:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T09:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/471725\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T09:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T09:43:08","slug":"diego-simeone-and-jan-oblak-clash-after-atletico-madrid-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/471725\/","title":{"rendered":"Diego Simeone and Jan Oblak clash after Atletico Madrid loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

Atletico Madrid followed up Thursday\u2019s enormous victory over Barcelona with a damaging 3-0 defeat at the hands of Rayo Vallecano<\/a> at Butarque. It is a result that sees Los Colchoneros drop down to fourth place in La Liga, where they are now 15 points adrift of new leaders Real Madrid.<\/p>\n

It was an all-too familiar story for Atleti, who have struggled for consistency this season. Their performance against Barcelona was their best in a long while, but the defeat to Rayo was one of their worst. They made significant changes with a view to Wednesday\u2019s Champions League clash against Club Brugge, but it was still an unforgivable performance.<\/p>\n

Jan Oblak was particularly furious after the full time whistle, and when speaking to the media (via Marca<\/a>), he made it clear that results like the Rayo one are the reason that Atleti have thrown away any chance of wining La Liga this season.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt seems that La Liga has been thrown away. We can\u2019t lose matches like this. We can\u2019t play like this. Playing this way, it will be difficult to compete. Matches aren\u2019t chosen. You have to compete in them at the highest level, and we\u2019re not doing that. Rayo were much better, we deserved to lose.\u201d<\/p>\n

Image via Cordon Press<\/p>\n

Oblak was also asked why the team\u2019s performance was so much worse than against Barcelona in midweek.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no explanation, but the only thing we know is that you can\u2019t choose the matches. Our heads are not allowing us to win games in a row and that is bad on our part. The team has to show its face, and today we didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

Diego Simeone responds to Oblak comments<\/p>\n

As per Diario AS<\/a>, Atleti head coach Diego Simeone reacted to Oblak\u2019s remarks when speaking to the media himself, and he made it clear that he is of a different opinion.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t agree with what Oblak said. I think the team gave what it could. They were superior and there is nothing to reproach in terms of effort, work and trying to do well. It wasn\u2019t a good game, the opponent was better and we have to think about Wednesday.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Atletico Madrid followed up Thursday\u2019s enormous victory over Barcelona with a damaging 3-0 defeat at the hands of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-471725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}