For more than two weeks, Álvaro Morata (Madrid, 1992) has the healthy habit of scoring a goal every three / four days. It unleashed a day before he turned 27 (October 22) and since then he has not stopped. There have been two with the head and three with the right foot, for five goals in the last five games. His have also been five of the last six goals rojiblancos (Saul scored the other). It has a lot of merit because it does it in Atlético with less gunpowder since Simeone arrived: a short goal per game in LaLiga (12 in 12). And a third of those 18 have their signature.

But Morata has also given him a lot of thought in these golden days. Because some of his goals have been seconded by errors against the rival goal. In Mendizorroza , for example, he opened the scoring when Atlético barely showed signs of life, but forgave the sentence and Alavés ended up drawing. In Seville he headed the tie, but, at the last minute, he ran into Koundé's legs when he was 1-2 ready to push him. And on Wednesday, in Leverkusen , he cut distances in the discount but had clemency only a minute later, in what would have been a miraculous draw.

His scoring warmer has served to receive the call of the coach Robert Moreno after a parenthesis of two calls: one for injury and the last for his lack of aim. Sharing front with Correa has felt more comfortable than ever since he arrived at Atlético, on the horn of the closing of the last winter market. The Argentine has been guilty in two of his recent goals.

Personal crisis in London

The funny thing is that Morata is still owned by Chelsea , where he has a contract until June. In London he lived one of his worst moments and did everything possible to return to Madrid when the option appeared just a year ago. Diego Simeone, crazy about him, gave him the last push.

In summer, Atlético reached an agreement with the British club to execute the purchase option for 55 million at the end of this course. And a year and a half will pass, being one of the best paid, just behind Oblak and Costa. He, however, feels with voice and vote in the locker room since he arrived. "We are all guilty, but also a family," he said after the defeat in Germany. It is the intimate of the captain, Koke , for whom he pulled his face behind the pits of the Metropolitan Wanda.

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