• Chronicle Luis Suárez knocks down the wall of Elche and Costa finishes it off

With a light caress to the ball, Luis Suárez, who attacks like few others in the small area, cleared a game against Elche stuck until that moment.

With a surprise irruption, sliding on the wet grass of the Metropolitan, to impale a precise center of Carrasco, he thought he packed a rocky rival, who would end up standing up.

And with a debatable penalty, after a slight kick from

Marcone

In the area, Diego Costa, on the day of his return, closed one of those innocent games that end up determining the fate of a team.

In short, Atlético, clinging to its two forwards, to its two nines, resolved a rough afternoon, against a rival sheltered in a wall of six defenders.

This time it was they, the battering rams, longed for in their absence during this start of the course, who ended up solving the problem.

"Luis Suárez was not getting in, you bastard. I'll go back and score two ...", Costa joked at the end of the match, after 20 days away from football due to a venous thrombosis in his right leg.

He did not hesitate when he saw that the referee signaled a penalty, because there is no better redemption than the goal.

"Life hits me, but I always get up, because I have a family, a base, and my colleagues, physios, doctors are by my side. When I'm not there, I try to contribute to the maximum. It has not been easy. Since I returned, always Something happens to me, but I always get up, "added the forward, who is considered a basic piece in the dressing room, beyond his poor scoring success in this second stage.

His days at Atlético are running out, as his contract expires on June 30, but he remains determined to design a farewell as dignified as possible.

And there is also Simeone, his mentor, convinced that he will be important again on this trip.

The last one by his side.

By the time Costa reappeared, 20 minutes from the end, Luis Suárez had left with his second double of the season (he signed another in his debut against Granada).

His first two goals with his right leg, the good one, allowed to dispel the doubts that had accompanied him since his return after the stoppage due to the coronavirus.

"The coach decided that he should play last week, but we knew that he came from a 20-day process without responding," thus justifying his lack of rhythm Simeone, rhythm, especially a week ago, in the Valdebebas derby, where the Uruguayan neither he even got to finish off the goal.

Simeone's third best score

Almost a third of Atlético's goals in this league (24) are the work of the celestial striker (7).

The star signing of this season, already 34 years old, has added more than half of the goals that

Álvaro Morata

(12), the last rojiblanco top scorer, scored

in just nine league games

last year.

"He arrived unpretentious to the dressing room and his intelligence and experience, apart from his goals, will be key," they admit to this newspaper from the heart of the club.

His double, with two blows to the first touch, as the lethal finisher that he is, allows his team to continue at the top of the general, with two games pending.

Because in the end the great conquests usually come hand in hand with great scorers.

It happened in the time of

Falcao

or ... in those of Diego Costa.

With that irrepressible version that Costa wore seven seasons ago.

"If we achieve something great this year, it has to be like when we won the League, that we had a great team: one or the other came out and scored," recalled the forward, who could only coincide at the beginning with Luis Suárez that afternoon in

Balaídos

where ended between sobs due to an unfortunate muscle injury, when it seemed that the couple could settle as a real option, like the one he formed with

Villa

or Falcao.

In up to four games (between the League and the Champions League), Atlético has had to play without either of them.

Since Simeone arrived nine years ago, there have only been two seasons in which Atlético have achieved a higher score.

In 2012/13, which ended with the Copa del Rey title at the

Santiago Bernabéu

, they had reached 31 points.

And in 2013/14, when they won the League, they went up to 33. These 29 on which they sail, which allows them to lead the general, confirm that the path is the right one, although, yes, we are still in December.

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