Six points.
One game less and 15 days ahead.
If it weren't
Atlético de Madrid
who topped the standings, no one would doubt that a team with those numbers has the championship almost in its pocket.
Impossible to let it escape.
But the rojiblancos prefer not to think about it, not to lie down on the mattress until mathematics says that it is impossible for the League to slip through their fingers.
Perhaps it is a good tactic seeing what happened in the Ciutat de València.
They were able to do it all, but they only scratched a draw before that prevents them from locking the championship.
It was not a matter of play, only of success, that
Suárez's
peephole got out of hand
against a rival capable of despair and with nothing to lose.
The
Levante
has that aura of equipment capable of destroying an oversight.
He doesn't mind chasing the ball's shadow for too long because, when hunting it, he sharpens his fang and takes a bite.
That was what he did while Atlético loosen up at the Ciutat de Valencia.
A couple of lateral centers from
Vrsaljko
, the
Llorente-Suárez
connection
starting ... and before they knew it they already had the score against.
Giménez was entrusted to the ball out and
Bardhi
stole it
to lean on De Frutos, face
Oblak
and find a premature prize.
From that moment, the Levante showed little and gusts.
Atlético accelerated to settle in the Granota area.
It was only a matter of time that Suárez did not find a strange stop on his knees from Aitor or that Correa and Saúl refined.
The goal was resisted, but it came on a
right hand from Marcos Llorente
that Rober Pier deflected.
The Madrilenian is today a player touched by a wand, impossible to contain and capable of shaking the entire attack game of the team.
With Bardhi and Clerc unable to hold him, he imposed the red-and-white law.
Simeone's team let go of the corset with the tie while Levante suffered.
Any ball that went around the area was finished off by Suárez, associated with Llorente himself on the band or with a somewhat fortunate Correa, who wasted a clear opportunity when he returned from the dressing room.
Suárez made it in a span, his shot was stopped by the Basque goal but the rejection, to an empty goal, was sent by the Argentine to the scoreboard of the Ciutat.
There was the hit that gave half a title.
To the points, the rojiblancos looked superior.
How could you miss a match that they dominated in game and occasions.
But if there is a team that knows how to manage time, it is Levante, and
Simeone
knows it.
He propped up his midfield with Kondogbia and rubbed the lamp opening the door for Joao Félix.
As if I hadn't.
The Portuguese took 20 minutes to step on the area, to find Saúl offside.
With nothing to lose, Levante took a step forward and shook Atlético with a left foot from
Clerc
that saved Oblak's hand.
They did not kill the League, but they breathed not to enliven it.
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