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«Once expelled, he delayed his departure from the pitch while facing several opponents, reaching to pinch the number 20 (Vitolo) on his face, and then tip several slaps on the neck and chest of the number 9 (Morata), and insisting that he had been attacked by a ball boy ». The act of Mateu Lahoz revealed the details of the sonic epilogue of Iván Cuéllar (Mérida, 1984) in the Metropolitan Wanda. Until Diego Pablo Simeone threw himself on the lawn for a moment, before the tangana unleashed by the final parsimony of the Leganés goalkeeper. Jan Oblak had to calm down and, after four minutes of show in the addition, Cuellar left through the tunnel of changing rooms.

«I didn't see what the goalkeeper of the rival team did and when I turned around Germán (Burgos) told me that he had been expelled. We are here to try to solve the game, not to set the rhythm guidelines, ”Simeone explained, minutes after a hard draw at home with the colista. "That's left. I pulled away, I didn't even know what to do. It was a pretty ugly thing. The two teams have needs and nerves emerge, ” Javier Aguirre added about the brawl, which was fired from Atlético 35 months before Cholo landed in Madrid.

Precisely the Mexican was on the red and white bench when Cuéllar last defended the Madrid goal. It was that tragic night of 2007, in which Barcelona took Vicente Calderón with a blushing 0-6. The Extremaduran goalkeeper, who was recruited in 2002 for the athletic quarry, with 18 years, was transferred that summer to Eibar. Then he signed for Sporting, where he played 210 games in nine seasons. And since 2017 it protects the sticks of the Leganés in First.

Yesterday, he exasperated what his hobby was over a decade ago, rushing the balls that started from his goal to the extreme. And in the last quarter of an hour he was ejected for double yellow, after "pretending to have been assaulted by a ball boy and addressing me making observations," the minutes added.

Vrsaljko's surprise return

It was already added time and Atlético could not even hang a ball to the area to see how Jonathan Silva worked with gloves. "I was not even rehearsed in the pachangas," admitted Aguirre about the election of the Argentine side. In the club cucumber now await the penalty for their starting goalkeeper.

To Pichu, his coach has defined him on more than one occasion as a «bare wire». "It's pure dynamite," the Mexican minister has once argued. A year ago, Cuellar lived a tough episode at Camp Nou. Leganés lost 2-1 and one of the goals was scored by Luis Suarez, after a foul that neither the VAR nor the referee were able to see. "Sometimes they have to injure you so that they are missing," he still posted hot on his Instagram account. The Barça bleacher ended up priming him.

A difficult morning for Atlético in which extraordinary situations occurred. For example, that of Sime Vrsaljko . Arias' muscular injury and Trippier's pubalgia returned the Croatian to the right back that he had last defended in the 2018 Europa League final. That is 620 days ago. He had suffered an express expulsion in the semifinals (against Arsenal), in just 10 minutes. So, with the threat of a yellow one, he only played the first part of the decisive duel in Lyon. It seemed his farewell to the rojiblanco club. That summer he left on loan to Inter Milan with a purchase option that the Lombard club never executed. A knee injury forced him to go through the operating room and he had not played for a year until yesterday, in front of Leganés, he played 88 minutes.

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