well, if atletico were to win it, then as a ballpark, suggesting we might have had a chance of winning it if we'd beaten them isnt entirely unreasonable. Getting knocked out by the tournament champions is c'est la vie, R16 or SF.
Really don't think football works that way tbh, you can have team1 beating team2, and team2 beating team3, then team3 beats team1.
It is not like 3>2>1 hence 3>1, nor is it like rock, paper, scissors.
Like I cannot see Atletico do what we did to Man City in the finals last year, I also see us giving more trouble to Man City than Real Madrid can, but we will struggle more against Real Madrid than Man City.
Like the best part of this Inter is we can play in different styles accordingly, like low block, counter, play from back etc.
Atletico is quite a tough team for us, simply they are very good at cracking low blocks (Not like Barca), they don't play possessions (Man City) which we can kill their plays before reaching final third, they also sacrificed a lot to cage in Toro, hence more space for others to exploit, but we couldn't capitalize on it, which their weakness is somewhat their defense, but our conversion was our weakness LOL
Also they play a lot of direct balls for attack (like attacking all 5 areas and in numbers), hence creating a lot of physical duels and 1 vs 1 situations, the downside again is they are extremely vulnerable in transitions, again we didn't capitalize on it. Even it was tough, again, their chances were from individuals' mistakes.