The new plan is to finish the year with 19 points after four straight victories to leave So come around to tenth, about nine in the Champions
Quique Sanchez Flores was clear immediately after their first league win as coach of Atletico. It takes a few results like this, he said, to start breathing with some reassurance.
The objective of finishing eighth in the Christmas break was frustrated with the visit to Xerez, winning a very difficult match against Villarreal at home and close 2009 with another away win in Tenerife.
By obtaining these nine points, Atletico with 19 and is projected to be approximately at the tenth position in the table, still far from the 'target Champions League or the UEFA posts. Behind Barcelona, Madrid, Sevilla, Valencia, Deportivo, Mallorca, Sporting, Athletic Bilbao and Getafe.

If these estimates are reasonable defeats against Deportivo, Real Madrid and Athletic. But a new plan to emerge from the darkness can work with calendar as an ally and if Sergio Aguero, currently more than half the red and white team, not to relax.
Reasonable goal before Christmas A goal of the game accessible infumable despite Atletico's three wins engage more in as many days remaining until Christmas break. Binding pocket would be three points in their met, the gap with the European places would be reduced to about 6 points in the case of UEFA and three or four more to fourth position. Currently, Atletico is three points above the relegation zone, to 11 second continental competition and 15 of the Champions League.
Recent experience invites to distrust the overall direction and acierten Madrid sports club to be strengthened during the winter. Those who must be removed from turnaround for Sergio Asenjo, member of the lodge was exactly a year without knowing the victory, nor in Valladolid and in his new post. He regained his taste of success.
The thrust of Sergio Kun Agüero has become the captain in-waiting with its concentration on and off the field. In isolation, both daring can cause bad news (the angry insulting the referee at San Mames, stifled by the coach, who invaded the field to close the Atletico were this hole to those who have rushed to that place. If the attacker fraction of the workforce (Forlan, Aguero, Simao, Maxi) returns to produce as many goals as in previous years, will start despite the irreparable leak defensive.
Given the parrots Pochettino, Atletico brought another notable development: a match ends with a clean sheet, a fact which had occurred only in the sad tie of Apoel of Cyprus since the season began. And a mouth). In general, this visceral delivery is "vitamin in vein" Quique calling for his team and the injectable Kun assists and goals, two against Espanyol and Chelsea, one at Real Madrid ...
Aguero, with continuous pain in her pubic region-what is holding training as does the rest, has given life to an athlete in a coma. Now should spread its energy to Europe's top scorer last season, Diego Forlan, who has not yet found the streak adequate. Maybe his goal against Espanyol could be the beginning of the end of the drought.
Gone are the 32 goals from Uruguayan last season. But he himself, so far with five goals, has recently ensured that exceed 20. That figure, together with the many of Kun (17 in the last league, six in the present), Simao (seven in 2008-09, none today), Maxi, Jurado and others would be enough to advance the goals planned.
If Atletico hitch the number of positive results until 20 December, the attitude and morale will help rojiblancos engages other positive results in January, against Sevilla and Sporting in the Manzanares and his views about neighborhood to Valladolid and Getafe. Copa del Rey and brought as a factor yet unknown effects.