Atletico fans can dream of winning the Champions League - De Paul

and

entered the tie 1-1 but

Renan Lodi

’s goal has proved decisive in sealing a victory for the

giants.

“

Jan is the best keeper in the world he showed it tonight,”

Koke said. “

He was the man of the match and he made two or three saves. It’s an honour to have him in the team and I hope he spends many years with us.”

“Football is all about runs,” he said about Atlético’s recent good form. “It cost us to tweak things. There’s a lot of time left in this season. In the end, it’s hard to explain. Sometimes things don’t work out regardless of the system you play but little by little it feels like we are getting some consistency.”

“We deserved to go through. In the first game, we deserved to win,”

Koke continued.

Rodrigo de Paul kept his rich vein of form and believes Atletico supporters can dream about Champions League victory.

“

I’m very happy, it wasn’t easy,”

he said.

“We came to a ground that has a lot of history against one of the biggest teams in the world. We know when to defend, to attack and to suffer. We played a very complete game.”

“The fans helped us a lot,”

he continued.

“There are lots of groups that collapse in the difficult moments. This team does the opposite. We want to keep going like this.”

“I was going to say ‘game by game’ to you. The dreams are the things that drives everyone inside. Why would we not let the fans who dreams of that?! Every day we put on this shirt we are going to leave out lives on the field.”

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