Quique Setién: "Atlético de Madrid is the team that covers most ground during games out of the whole league"
UD Las Palmas’ trainer, Quique Setién, announced today before departing for Madrid that conversations will begin "shortly" with the club to deal with the upcoming renewal of his contract. With reference to the match tomorrow at the Vicente Calderón he sai
For Quique Setién, the game tomorrow against Atlético de Madrid is "special", as he was a former player at the club. "I had a great playing career at Atlético de Madrid", he assured journalists. Las Palmas’ manager is wary of the Madrid team’s poor run. "It is not easy to get out of a situation such as the one they are going through, but Atlético de Madrid is a team with such great potential and such superb players such as Griezmann, Gameiro and Carrasco, who play brilliantly every weekend. They now urgently require a victory to pull themselves out of their bad run. We need to play intelligently and to keep the ball, because we are facing the team that covers most ground during teams in the league", he pointed out.
UD Las Palmas welcome back left-sided player Dani Castellano for this clash. Boateng and Araujo are both still out injured, while David García is still serving his ban. These will be the most significant absentees from the Gran Canarian team. Setién said that "Hernán is one of our options for central defender. He played in this position last year when we had problems through injuries, and he did really well. He is one of our most versatile players to be able to play there", while referring to Aythami Artiles, saying "he is still not fit enough to be able to risk him".
Quique Setién made it clear that "Simeone is an extraordinary trainer" and that since his arrival at Atlético de Madrid "the club has been up there challenging for titles, and this is down to him", he claimed.
