{"id":299,"date":"2026-08-30T17:12:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T17:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/?p=299"},"modified":"2026-08-30T17:12:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T17:12:42","slug":"diego-simeone-talks-hjulmand-and-aims-a-dig-at-the-club-he-came-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/?p=299","title":{"rendered":"Diego Simeone talks Hjulmand and aims a dig at the club he came from"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Diego Simeone praised <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transfermarkt.pt\/morten-hjulmand\/profil\/spieler\/461496\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Morten Hjulmand<\/a> after Atl\u00e9tico Madrid\u2019s 3-1 win over Sevilla, but <strong>also took a swipe at the Portuguese league <\/strong>when explaining the former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transfermarkt.pt\/sporting-lissabon\/startseite\/verein\/336\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Sporting<\/a> player\u2019s difficulties adapting to Spanish football.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The Danish midfielder, <a href=\"https:\/\/leonino.pt\/hjulmand-tem-tarde-para-esquecer-no-atletico-madrid-villarreal-ex-sporting-culpado-pelo-empate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">who made a mistake in the first round<\/a>, started for the second matchday in a row and helped Los Colchoneros temporarily move to the top of <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/competition\/laliga-10\/fixtures\">LaLiga<\/a>. The <strong>player once again earned the Argentine coach\u2019s trust <\/strong>and delivered a composed performance until he was replaced near the end by Johnny Cardoso.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>In the aftermath of the match, <strong>Simeone highlighted the Danish international\u2019s qualities, especially \u201chis passing ability and competitive mentality\u201d<\/strong>, but pointed to an obstacle he considers important in this adaptation process.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>At that moment, the Atl\u00e9tico Madrid coach <strong>aimed a dig at the Portuguese league, suggesting that Hjulmand comes from a competition played at a slower pace than the one found in Spain<\/strong>. \u201cHe comes from a league where the game is played more slowly, which doesn\u2019t have the speed of the game in Spain or England,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/news\/diego-simeone-talks-hjulmand-and-aims-a-dig-at-the-club-he-came-from-43367722\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diego Simeone praised Morten Hjulmand after Atl\u00e9tico Madrid\u2019s 3-1 win over Sevilla, but also took&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2Fv22Fphotobooth2Fcms2Fen2F433677223Fdate2026-08-30.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}