For the first time in four years Atlético de Madrid opened the season in La Liga with victory. An immaculate center of Kieran Trippier and a header from Morata gave the rojiblancos the first joy of the course in a game with more shocks than play. Two expelled in the first part and an anthological ride of Joao Felix , a failed penalty and a whiplash to the crossbar of Angel in the final minutes that could not break the curse: Getafe has eight years and 16 games without scoring a single goal to Atlético from Madrid.

The 'Mono' Burgos said it in the previous one: for Atlético, playing against Getafe de Bordalás was like facing a mirror. Two defensive teams, very intense and used to move to the limit of the regulation. In that sense the script did not give surprises: a game with little continuity in the game came out, especially since the two teams were left with ten men in the final stretch of the first part . Jorge Molina saw the direct red by an action very similar to that of Modric in Balaidos, an involuntary stomping of the heel area, and at the moment Renan Lodi saw his second yellow. Little ease was seen since then.

Despite the revolution in the workforce, by name Simeone came out with the right news: the two sides, Trippier and Lodi, for which they left, and Joao Felix. But until the expulsion of the Brazilian forced to change the script, some change could be guessed. At least, the plan he chose for the premiere: Koke and Saul wrapping Thomas inside, a man behind the front and reel for the two sides, who were seen regularly in very advanced positions.

And so came the only goal of the night. As a child, Trippier spent hours and hours on YouTube studying videos of David Beckham . Beats long, short, ball stopped. Also from Pirlo . How they placed the body and the ball. He tells it whenever he has the chance, but if he had never done something, he would intuit that right hand that put the goal of the first victory of the course for Atlético in the head of Álvaro Morata. Before, he had already surprised the defense of Getafe with a clearing within the area, although in that case the service was defective. He wanted to hit him first in the air and hit with the tibia.

Bordalás has doubled his bet this season and the arrival of Cucurella also allows him to play with two sides on the left side, but not that special vigilance managed to stop the English international until the expulsions forced to change the plans of both. That stretch of just twenty minutes in the first part was the only moment in which the game picked up pace. A duel with many interruptions in which, however, Joao Felix found the loophole to bewitch the Metropolitan with a vintage outburst.

The Portuguese picked up a loose ball in a three-quarter zone of his own field, faced Arambarri , dumped the bicycle and passed the ball between his legs. Fajr hung on his back but there was no way to knock him down. Not a hint of nerves appeared when he seemed to be locked between his two assailants and Bruno: he stepped on the ball, cradled it back and with a waist to the right he found a free way to continue riding. The central Getafe must have seen his 19 years and believed that putting body could fix it, but Felix endured the shoves in the race until Bruno had the bad idea of ​​putting his leg.

David Soria stopped Morata's penalty and within a few minutes the Portuguese had to leave the camp, but at that point it was already the least. Overall, the debut of Joao Felix in the League was somewhat discreet and Getafe's tough defense made him spend an accelerated mili -forced two yellow, one to Cabrera for a swipe and another to Fajr for an outrage-, but in those 20 seconds It was announced as the new reference of Atlético.

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