{"id":25746,"date":"2025-08-17T18:48:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T22:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/atleti-falls-to-espanyol-alvarez-scores-but-the-defeat-hurts-in-laliga\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T18:48:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T22:48:17","slug":"atleti-falls-to-espanyol-alvarez-scores-but-the-defeat-hurts-in-laliga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/atleti-falls-to-espanyol-alvarez-scores-but-the-defeat-hurts-in-laliga\/","title":{"rendered":"Atleti falls to Espanyol: \u00c1lvarez scores, but the defeat hurts in LaLiga"},"content":{"rendered":"

Atl\u00e9tico Madrid falls to Espanyol in the start of LaLiga<\/h2>\n\nDiego Simeone, coach of Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid, expressed his disappointment after the 2-1 defeat against Espanyol in the first match of LaLiga. The colchonero team could not maintain the initial advantage, despite the great free kick goal by Juli\u00e1n \u00c1lvarez.\n\nAtl\u00e9tico dominated the match at the RCDE Stadium when \u00c1lvarez put the visitors ahead in the 37th minute. However, goals from Miguel Rubio and Pere Milla gave Espanyol the victory, who had the support of former NFL player J.J. Watt, the club’s new shareholder.\n\nSimeone lined up five of Atl\u00e9tico’s summer signings in the starting eleven, including the American midfielder Johnny Cardoso, who was substituted at halftime.\n\nThey took advantage of the situations they had. The set piece (for Rubio’s goal) got them into the game. We had the game well controlled. And then, with the second goal, that hurt us.\n\nAtl\u00e9tico has invested heavily this summer with the arrival of seven new players, with the aim of competing with Barcelona and Real Madrid after finishing last season without titles.\n\n\n

It’s part of the journey. This result hurts us, but it can also make us improve and grow. I will focus on the good things the team did and we will try to reduce the deficiencies we saw.<\/p>Diego Simeone<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\nAtl\u00e9tico players react after losing to Espanyol in the start of LaLiga on Sunday.<\/em>\n\nAtl\u00e9tico captain Koke came on at halftime along with Pablo Barrios, replacing Cardoso and Conor Gallagher.\n\n\n

Football is about being effective in both areas, and we weren’t. We know what this level demands. We will have to be effective if we want to achieve something in this league.<\/p>Koke<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe legendary NFL player, Watt, is involved with Velocity Sports Limited, the owners of Burnley of the Premier League, who took control of Espanyol this summer. Watt shared a video on social media, mingling with Espanyol fans before the match.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Atl\u00e9tico Madrid falls to Espanyol in the start of LaLiga Diego Simeone, coach of Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid, expressed his disappointment after the 2-1 defeat against Espanyol in the first match of LaLiga. The colchonero team could not maintain the initial advantage, despite the great free kick goal by Juli\u00e1n \u00c1lvarez. Atl\u00e9tico dominated the match at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2704,2309,158,7418],"class_list":{"0":"post-25746","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-atletico-madrid","9":"tag-espanyol","10":"tag-laliga","11":"tag-simeone"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}