Just a year ago, Atlético was writhing due to injuries.

Up to eight players with physical problems had Simeone at the same time, in a hectic start to 2020. Among them, Koke, Joao Félix, Giménez, Costa or Morata, who left the Santiago Bernabéu touched.

A year later, it is the coronavirus that does not allow Atlético to raise its head.

And that for his visit to Granada, at least he recovers

Carrasco

and

Hermoso

, two pillars of a defensive system that has suffered in his absence: Felipe is far from being Felipe and Llorente, a powerful multipurpose knife, dazzles much less as a lane. (and that he gave an assist against Celta).

Trippier

does not have Covid, but ... Even so, they are still in quarantine, because of the now famous British strain, Joao Félix, Dembélé, yet to debut, Herrera and Lemar.

Simeone himself or Luis Suárez also went through the trance, whose absence led to a small scare in Europe.

In any case, everyone stares, or out of the corner of their eye, at the Uruguayan striker.

The fashionable striker in La Liga, top scorer with 16 goals, who fell on his feet with a meteoric double, precisely against Granada.

Those of

Diego Martínez

were his first victim.

By the way, the only Luis Suárez who will be on the pitch at Nuevo Los Cármenes this noon, since the other Luis Suárez, from Granada, will be absent due to injury.

Since that first afternoon, where Lucho could have even signed a hat-trick in just 20 minutes (the VAR denied a penalty when he was ready to shoot it), with only a couple of training sessions with his teammates, until this point in February, where no one doubts that Atlético made a masterful move to close one of the best operations in its history.

All the goal that he lacked a year ago comes from Luis Suárez's boots (or head or shoulder).

After 20 days, Simeone's men accumulated

20 fewer targets (22)

than the ones they are wearing right now (42).

And 16 of them belong to the Uruguayan gunman, who has needed half of the course to score the same goals as Morata throughout the past course.

The same goals as Morata

Suárez took off with a brilliant debut against Granada, after leaving Barcelona in disgust and tears, and now all his teammates are moving on the field in search of him.

After an almost perfect start to 2021, he is signing the best start of a forward with a new team in the 21st century, after signing 16 goals in 17 games, one more than, for example,

Cristiano Ronaldo

(09/10) with Real Madrid or

Haaland

(2020) with Borussia Dortmund.

"The forward lives with scoring goals, but what I try to do is help the team," he assured yesterday, after receiving the award for the best rojiblanco player of the month of January.

He, just turned 34, is one of the main reasons why Atlético is the leader of the League.

Because age, as

Jorge Molina

knows

, the first to beat Oblak this season and today Granada's top scorer in all competitions (9), is just one more number.

He will turn 39 in April and, without Soldado or Luis Suárez (the Colombian), last minute casualties due to injury, he will be the main offensive asset of the Nasrid team, seated in the middle zone of the table.

"Despite being 34 years old, I still have the same ambition," said Suárez.

Their seven goals in the last four games are not explained otherwise.

All of them have served to come back and get Atlético out of a hurry.

Although as in the last night, against Celta, they were only worth a draw.

His state of grace makes anyone tremble.

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