• Chronicle: Herrera lifts Atlético in an hour (2-2)

At the beginning of any relationship, and who says relationship says season, there is an exciting, confusing and slightly terrifying moment in which you do not know if you are heading towards (passing) happiness or (nth) disaster. You are unable to distinguish if you are falling in love or just trying to fall in love. But when in doubt forces, do not miss something. You hold on to a dust (sometimes just a kiss) among a hundred awkward conversations to keep the illusion. It is soon, it is your right, sometimes there is luck.

Life, like football, generates more happiness with what you imagine than with what happens, that's why most athletics will cling today to be traced like the Cuore to a rumor: the important thing is not the point, is that the first Bronca leaves no serious injuries ... that we know. We still know so little about this Atleti that the best version is as likely as the worst. For example, Joao Felix . Where is the 89 minutes we don't see him? More importantly, how much does it matter if when he appears he gives us that silly smile that we didn't remember from adolescence, advancing with the controlled ball towards four rivals as if instead of Italians they were teletubbies?

The day will come, and it will not take long, in which we demand that, in addition to making us laugh, lower the garbage, lie down to the children and do not spend three or four nights a month missing. But for now, citing the immortal Paul in 'Beautiful girls', Joao is like the (the) supermodels: the promise of a better world. Will you comply? He has talent, he lacks work. For now, time is your ally.

But from him, from his constant presence in the game, the roof of this Atleti seems to depend, which for now continues to survive the way of the first Rafa Nadal: all his rivals seem to play better, but in the end he survives. He did not do it when he dominated and showed his best face in the first half, but when he played a messy rush and Simeone dusted the inexplicably forgotten Herrera and Vitolo . If the Atleti learned something positive, it is that it is fearsome again with a stopped ball. If the Atleti learned something negative, it is that it is only fearsome when the ball is stopped.

And now that? No one knows yet. The 20 minutes of manifest inferiority will be erased as quickly from the rojiblanca collective memory as the comeback will be recorded. But that initial optimism always dies in the fall. If it is love, the Atleti has to start lowering the garbage and putting the children to bed. Soon.

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