The last time Atlético won at home was summer and life in the Metropolitan was pink. Everything smelled great. Ecstasy for the last minute comeback against Eibar and leadership in LaLiga, 15 days after receiving Juventus. In just two months many things have happened, mostly regular for the rojiblancos, hence the serious face of Diego Simeone in the auditorium of the Wanda Metropolitano. And that Bayer Leverkusen is not for many parties either.

"Ours has always been work and we will continue working to improve," Simeone started. "The team still does not maintain a regularity, so you have to approach to improve," continued the Argentine coach, worried because his new project is still missing a few nights awake.

The eight goals in nine days of LaLiga, the worst red and white record of the last half century, deserve an analysis for Simeone as well. Although its conclusions are not particularly revealing. "When the goal appears, everything else looks better and the games are better resolved," proclaimed El Cholo, aware that being "always defending" 1-0 is "complicated."

New formulas

In front of Leverkusen, which he set aside in the knockout stages of 2015 and 2017, it seems that he will shake his bench. The absence of the injured Joao Felix and the alarming lack of goal could lead him to try new formulas. For example, return Correa to the front of the attack or resort to Herrera again for his medulla. Anything to find a more placid path.

Where Godin used to be, now he has Koke, his favorite card. "We are not so bad. Nor are we very well, but we are not so bad. We are three points away from Barcelona. Peace of mind. We are starting and the results will surely come," said the rojiblanco captain, trying to calm an environment rarefied by the disconnections in the game.

The goodbye to veterans of the weight of Diego Godín, Juanfran Torres or Filipe Luis seems to have also affected when facing the most committed moments. "Before we had a more mature team, so to speak, and we were all pulling the car," he admitted of Koke, who sees very clearly the formula for getting ahead. "We must achieve that, that we all pull the car, because this is a team," finished '6'.

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