"For sure, being strong defensively has been our structure of these years. Going back to being strong defensively speaks highly of all the staff, of the whole group," he told the club's official website.

"It is not only the defence, because it starts from the forwards and the better the forwards work, the better the defensive work is."

Simeone's men are third in the La Liga table, six points adrift of leaders Barcelona.

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Premier League Table

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	PTS
C	Real Madrid	34	27	6	1	74	22	52	87
2	Girona Girona	34	23	5	6	73	42	31	74
3	Barcelona	34	22	7	5	70	43	27	73
4	Atletico Madrid Atletico	34	21	4	9	63	39	24	67
5	Athletic Bilbao	34	17	10	7	55	33	22	61
6	Real Sociedad	34	14	12	8	48	35	13	54
7	Real Betis Betis	34	13	13	8	43	39	4	52
8	Valencia	34	13	8	13	37	39	-2	47
9	Villarreal	34	12	9	13	56	58	-2	45
10	Getafe	34	10	13	11	41	47	-6	43
11	Alaves Alaves	34	11	8	15	32	38	-6	41
12	Sevilla	34	10	11	13	45	46	-1	41
13	Osasuna	34	11	6	17	37	51	-14	39
14	Las Palmas Las Palmas	34	10	7	17	30	43	-13	37
15	Celta Vigo	34	8	10	16	40	52	-12	34
16	Rayo Vallecano	34	7	13	14	27	43	-16	34
17	Mallorca	34	6	14	14	27	40	-13	32
18	Cadiz Cadiz	34	4	14	16	23	49	-26	26
19	Granada	34	4	9	21	36	64	-28	21
R	Almeria	34	2	11	21	33	67	-34	17