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Neither Joao Félix nor Diego Costa had the slightest problem in opening the ban on gloves this season. An October 1 in Moscow is not anything. And less at 10 pm. But apart from Oblak, of course, only they decided to stop the cold in front of the Lokomotiv. Álvaro Morata, the third tip of the trident that, for some things or others, has been so much begging, did not see it necessary. For the first time in the official game, the most dangerous boys in Simeone, the ones with the most goals in their DNA, ran together on the grass. A relief for the young Felix, much more comfortable with the goal a few meters away. From there, the Portuguese invented the solution to Atlético's problems with the goal. Sometimes, like last night, the solution is simply for children. [Narration and statistics: 0-2]

But until Felix appeared in Moscow, the rojiblanco team (yesterday in black) came to mind some dark passages of his last times away from home in the Champions League. Those who warned that he had only been able to score three goals in his last seven games away from the Metropolitan. Only in this way can we understand the paranormal situation that Diego Costa experienced, a more rough course. Heaven may have opened in the first half, but his shot, without defense or goalie that bothered him, found no goal. Things of witches, should have thought the striker, author to date a loner both in seven games. He felt like it, but the goals are still a toothache for him. He never lowered his arms.

The shrewd boys Yuri Semin came out as locomotives. Crouched near your area awaiting the adversary's mistake. That is, what Atlético has been doing during these years when some colossus has got in its way. Same at home as it was. (Respectable) ways of living, which led them to take Leverkusen and keeps them only two points in their leader league, CSKA Moscow. They, like Atlético, feel comfortable like that. His Smolov buoy, when the first act expired, launched a counter that made Simeone tremble, not cold. But the focus of the Russians was not too sharp.

As in the derby, Thomas was once again the lighthouse of Atlético. It is no longer surprising, it has become a custom. Under his command, the ball travels at full speed. But not only that. Yesterday he found trails in the Moscow wall where others barely saw a minimum fissure. No one is clearer than him. Few in the staff have a more varied repertoire than him. And in front of the Lokomotiv, in addition, it ended the intrigue. It was presented in the heart of the area to impale a shipment of Diego Costa. The idea, of course, came out of the illuminated head of Joao Felix.

The second European division had already met the Portuguese in that famous night in which he scored three goals against Eintracht with Benfica. But last night he gave his first shout in the Champions League. They were two lethal brushstrokes after the break. With them he executed Lokomotiv and straightened the path of Atlético in group D. His connection with Morata in the first. His periscope and elegant driving in the second. Its author's touch on the stage where the giants are obliged to look out. From his break in the derby to the first exhibition with which to justify those 126 million that do not seem to scare him, despite his 19 years. He is already the top scorer of the team with three goals.

Jan Oblak also looked out for Moscow, although the rival's point of view was never very sharp. He did it as usual. With two stops of those that the catalog as "basic" for a goalkeeper. There were two miracles against Krychowiak who completed the first victory of Atletico in Europe in a year. Almost nothing. Now you know that if you miss a goal you can use Joao Felix.

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