{"id":39783,"date":"2025-09-25T05:09:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T09:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/simeone-exalts-julian-alvarez-after-hat-trick-the-best-from-atletico\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T05:09:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T09:09:51","slug":"simeone-exalts-julian-alvarez-after-hat-trick-the-best-from-atletico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/simeone-exalts-julian-alvarez-after-hat-trick-the-best-from-atletico\/","title":{"rendered":"Simeone Exalts Juli\u00e1n \u00c1lvarez After Hat-Trick: “The Best” from Atl\u00e9tico"},"content":{"rendered":"

Juli\u00e1n \u00c1lvarez: The Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid Hero in Victory Against Rayo Vallecano<\/h2>\n\nIn a night full of emotions at the Metropolitano Stadium, Atletico Madrid achieved a valuable 3-2 victory over Rayo Vallecano. The match was marked by a spectacular hat-trick from Juli\u00e1n \u00c1lvarez, who was praised by coach Diego Simeone.\n\n\u00c1lvarez opened the scoring for Atl\u00e9tico in the first half. However, Pep Chavarr\u00eda, from Rayo, equalized the score with an impressive long-range goal just before halftime.\n\nRayo Vallecano took the lead thanks to \u00c1lvaro Garc\u00eda, but the night belonged to \u00c1lvarez, who scored two more goals, including the winning goal in the 88th minute, thus sealing Atl\u00e9tico’s second victory in LaLiga this season.\n\n\n

“\u00c1lvarez is very good, he is the best player we have,” Simeone declared. “We have to take care of him, we have to help him become better. We need to have him here for many years at Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid, he is our player who makes the difference.”<\/p>Diego Simeone<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nBefore this match, \u00c1lvarez had only scored one goal so far this season. After being substituted in the previous match against Mallorca, there was speculation about possible discontent from the player, but he himself denied it.\n\n\n

“People say it on social media, but it’s more something from outside than from within. Everything is fine. Those weren’t the words I used. They were other words, foul words. I was angry with myself for how the game had gone. But these things always happen with social media nowadays,” stated \u00c1lvarez.<\/p>Juli\u00e1n \u00c1lvarez<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\"Juli\u00e1n<\/figure>\n\n\nAtl\u00e9tico’s victory changes the atmosphere in the club ahead of Saturday’s derby against Real Madrid, one of the most important matches of the season in LaLiga.\n\n\n

“Pure football. Football is fantastic,” Simeone said. “That’s the wonderful thing about this game. When it seems that everything is lost, faith, work and persistence, give you this joy from time to time.”<\/p>Diego Simeone<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nReal Madrid, the current LaLiga leader with a nine-point advantage over Atl\u00e9tico, will be a tough opponent.\n\n\n

“It’s a team that has won all six matches,” Simeone commented. “They are in an incredible moment, and they have decisive players all over the field. They have grown in their collective play compared to last season. They are a great opponent.”<\/p>Diego Simeone<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Juli\u00e1n \u00c1lvarez: The Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid Hero in Victory Against Rayo Vallecano In a night full of emotions at the Metropolitano Stadium, Atletico Madrid achieved a valuable 3-2 victory over Rayo Vallecano. The match was marked by a spectacular hat-trick from Juli\u00e1n \u00c1lvarez, who was praised by coach Diego Simeone. \u00c1lvarez opened the scoring for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2704,1232,3512,158],"class_list":{"0":"post-39783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-soccer","7":"tag-atletico-madrid","8":"tag-hat-trick","9":"tag-julian-alvarez","10":"tag-laliga"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39783","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=39783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}