Atlético gets stuck in its own mud again

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Between the concrete bones of the Wanda Metropolitano, already enveloped by a confined autumn, the notes of the solidarity song 'Partido a Partido' by Sabina and Leyva resound.

She does it between the void and the silence.

With the air of the Sierra remembering that summer is past, despite the efforts of the sun.

For months, the hearts with which the stadium beats have lived in exile forced by the pandemic.

A recording with thousands of voices singing the rojiblanco anthem in chorus tries to hide the absence.

Now football is this.

So it is they, the footballers, who try to bring life to the matter.

But in the Wanda there was no life or anything like it.

With a shrunken spirit and a crooked foot, Atlético returned to zero.

This time, against Villarreal (0-0).

Except that unlike what happened days ago in Huesca, he didn't even give the impression of wanting to avoid it.

And that Luis Suárez started again from the beginning.

The fact is that they got stuck in a nonexistent mud and ended up entangled in Unai Emery's web.

It's already 180 minutes without seeing the door.

They have at least two weeks to reflect on the couch.

There are moments in life that one can save.

And the first part (and a good while of the second) of the Metropolitano was one of them.

Beyond a shot with very bad intention from

, to which Jan Oblak responded as usual, half of the after-dinner was more like a nap.

Neither team left a single gap in their wall.

And Villarreal also protected themselves with five behind, since

protected the left flank, keeping Estupiñán company.

So, between the fact that there was no place to pass and Atlético came up with nothing to look for him, the rojiblancos returned to dispatch another of those first acts that no one will ever remember.

Except for

, who seems to have lived a lifetime in Madrid, little was saved.

Because

and

, again headlines like in El Alcoraz, still lack some chalk to refine the cue.

And between

always having his breath on Mario Gaspar and taking a break after two evenings of fantasy, the rojiblancos were wrinkled at the start.

Luis Suárez, with the role of starter assumed and well grasped, did not stop shouting to his teammates, claiming in attack and warning in defense.

But he went to the locker room tired of running through the yellow cobweb that

had woven

for the occasion.

Of course, when they appeared in the Oblak area, as in the two lashes of

, they transmitted a little more than their rival.

At least they conveyed something.

and Pau Torres did not detect

presence

until late in the afternoon.

Luis Suárez, without drawing

The truth is that there are heavy digestions.

And this was it.

It took Atlético a world to solve the five-defense sudoku game in front of them.

It is no longer that he had no aim, it is that Sergio Asenjo spent about an hour simply wearing his striking fluorescent pink clothing.

He didn't have much else to do.

In the band,

, dressed for the occasion, whispered from time to time to Simeone, but his boys were still without coverage.

Uruguayan

, who is waiting for Atlético to make a place for him, may help add, but it doesn't look like he's going to start any revolution.

Luis Suárez sat on the bench with a strange feeling that he had not lived for a long time.

He did not even draw his pistol properly.

Simeone shook the tree and chestnuts fell, which is the time for that.

One of them was

, in a surprising change for Joao Félix, who did not have his day, but can be expected at any time.

The typical change that would have been whistled had the stands not been naked.

Who knows if it will have been the last minutes of the Mexican.

Between

,

and

tried to revive that final sprint towards a goal that never came.

As if the team was still indigestible because of that embarrassment from the premiere.

Atlético found no remedy for their ills and left like so many times in recent times.

As if Granada had just been a dream.

It doesn't matter if you have one of the best scorers by your side.

This is not just a matter of names.

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