Leicester City have a realistic shot of reaching the Champions League semi-finals.
He said: "The focus just has to be on that game, you can look ahead and look back but you have to focus on the here and now".
Simeone said there were plenty of similarities between his team and Leicester, the Premier League champions who have recovered from a poor start to the season.
To properly top it off and make this even more "real" for the opposition, there is some proper streetwise play to go with that intelligence.
Leicester host Atleti in the second leg of the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals tonight and the Foxes are undoubtedly underdogs heading into the game.
The interim boss did say how he was a bit disappointed with the result: "If think there's a tinge of disappointment because we got in the lead".
"In terms of us being over-aroused emotionally, we've got the right players to keep cool heads".
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The Jamaican worldwide has returned to training after missing Leicester's last six matches due to a nerve problem in the back.
Leicester overcame a one-goal deficit to defeat Sevilla in the previous round, although on that occasion they went into the home leg with an away goal under their belts.
Simeone will once again count on his team's talisman, Antoine Griezmann to provide the spark in attack in order to get past Leicester in the second leg, with Fernando Torres, Koke and Yannick Carrasco providing the support act.
The trend runs deeper as well, with 29 of last season's 37 victories in all competitions being to nil, that's a 78 per cent trend but one the bookmakers continue to ignore, with a 12/5 being widely available compared to the 11/10 for Atletico just to win the match.
"I think Leicester are in decent form", he said. "Very disappointed that such a big decision has gone the wrong way for us", he said. It would also be the first time we've had a French team in the semifinals since Lyon, captained by Hugo Lloris, advanced to the 2009-10 semifinals (where they were thrashed by Bayern Munich). "We have such a great team spirit we don't let it affect us".
The Leicester manager revealed Morgan had successfully come through a training session on Friday, raising hopes the 33-year-old can face the La Liga side.
Full-back Filipe Luis summed up so much of this when asked whether the first leg had been a different game to what he expected. "It will be decided on the smallest details".
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