• Statistics. 2-0 in the Metropolitan

Sometimes it happens that with a simple scalpel a rock can be split in two. Last night, on the lawn of the Wanda Metrolitano, there were actually two rocks. But only one, Athletic, broke up. Ángel Correa, the often rebellious kid pointed out in the summer by Atlético to fill his pocket and recruit Rodrigo, after cornering his destiny, was the one who squirmed in the area, sectioned the rival defense and scribbled the place through which Saul went through the chest of the Basque ensemble. In the second part, in addition, I would discover the road to Morata. That's why he was fired with honors. In the field there were two stones, the two least goals of the championship, crashing again and again at full intensity. But the Argentine found in just one hour the way to leave the one in front of him.

It has been more common, few in the stands were surprised to see Jan Oblak fly as if he really enjoyed super powers. Before Athletic he did it to the right squad, with a sort of grinding included, when Íñigo Martínez thought he had claimed his piece. It was the first play of the game, just two minutes. A header that could have changed history on a night of reconciliation in the Wanda, where Koke and Simeone, beaten by a section of the stands before the Leverkusen, were untouchably unanimous again.

Athletic was never scared of the stage. Quite the contrary. In fact, Raúl García, one of his pillars, thought he was playing at home. For the initial ovation received, for its classic intensity and for those powerful shots that, if Oblak had not mediated ... The fact is that those of Garitano did not leave a moment of respite for Atlético. Two teams that arrived with identical numbers in both goals (eight goals in favor and five against) and almost traced intentions. Every inch of grass was a battle for survival. There were two mirrors looking into each other's eyes.

Irreverent and imaginative

At Atlético's new defense, with Savid and Giménez injured, the night allowed him to ascend at least one level. Each play with the ball stopped by Athletic forced Felipe and Hermoso to rise a couple of spans more than normal. Between Raúl García, Íñigo and Núñez they gave each air flight a ceaseless intrigue. Muniain and Williams also looked for their moment by speed, but there were the centrals. The new wall of Simeone, which is already the least thrashed solo of LaLiga, left, shaking off the dust of his shirt, as if it had only been one more night. For them, it was something else.

But it was for Correa who, with Joao Felix out of action, remains the most irreverent and imaginative piece that Simeone has. From his head that tangle of bankruptcies arose (there are those who also call it barullo) in the first part that, before Koke's gaze, motionless to not interrupt the magical moment, led to an assistance to Saul, whose left-hander does not usually forgive. The goals, as claimed by his coach in the previous one, are not just a thing of the strikers. De Correa was also a play of a neighborhood boy, winning his back to the defense in a throw-in, with which he did not hit Unai Simón. And from Correa's boots, almost at the time of the game, he started the deadly ball with which Morata definitely cheered Athletic. The ovation upon leaving the lawn was a redemption for him.

No bad intentions

Morata's came from Tuesday, in front of Leverkusen. Two goals in four days with which Atlético can breathe a little more calm knowing that at least one of their strikers has poison again. Because although Diego Costa had his screen share at the end, he barely managed to disturb Simon. It is true that the work was already done.

Venom was precisely what Athletic lacked to have done some damage to its rival. He never felt like fighting, but he did have a point of bad intentions against Oblak. Another thing is that the Slovenian goalkeeper would have allowed them.

It was a night of pseudoreconciliation of the Metropolitan, where the pitos were buried by the goals. There were only two, but in the red and white stadium that is already a treasure. With the postponement of the Classic, Atlético once again lives up to Barcelona and ahead of Real Madrid.

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