Fate has these things.
Ángel Correa, who found glory in Granada, after a shot that was poisoned by a rival, sent a ball into the stands that you only need to put your foot to hole.
Witch things.
The Argentine was attentive, pending the umpteenth shot by Luis Suárez and, also, another stop by Aitor Fernández.
But there are things that escape logic, as that beating to infinity demonstrated well, that it had no other possible destiny than to be the goal of the leader's comeback.
But, yes, the hero of Los Cármenes ended up lying on the grass, cursing his luck, at the start of the second act.
It would have been his fifth goal of the season, but the pot played a trick on him.
He also played it on his team.
By that time,
Marcos Llorente
had already been blessed with fortune.
His eighth goal in the League had the involuntary collaboration of
Rober Pier
.
Each ball that comes out of his boots, left or right, is usually decisive for the luck of his.
Not only are his targets, which too, but the seven assists with which he commands that record in the home competition.
Against Levante, he once again had the reins loose in the medullary and he lacked a hand to have continued to enlarge his account of gifts to his teammates.
It was an uncontrollable engine down the right lane.
It is in these places that he is writing his great story in red and white.
He was seen again with the scoreboard against Atlético, something that has ceased to be new in 2021.
Oblak
closed the year with five goals against after 14 games, on the way to record defensive records.
In seven of the last eight days he has left with a goal in his locker.
Up to nine have conceded, for a total of 14. Since
Trippier's
sanction
, which ends on February 28, the rojiblancos have always received some blow.
In fact, the only duel that he left to zero this year was the one played by the Englishman, against Sevilla, thanks to the precaution of FIFA.
Suárez, again at zero
At least, the Slovenian removed his thorn with one of those tentacles under sticks that served to keep a point in his pocket.
He only has one game pending (Athletic) and there are six he has on Real Madrid.
"If Correa's ball had entered the game it would have been different, Levante would have opened up a bit more and for us it would have been easier," acknowledged the goalkeeper, remembering that scene of Correa face to face with destiny.
Luis Suárez
returned to zero
for the second game in a row.
The top scorer, who has 16 goals, seven of them in the four games before Granada, had chances again, but ended up running into Aitor, the Levante goalkeeper.
He was a direct witness to what happened to Correa.
Obviously, he couldn't believe it either.
Joao Félix
returned
to the scene, after two weeks out of combat due to Covid and without having trained with the group.
Things of this pandemic.
He noticed the lack of rhythm and hardly left any detail.
The fact is that Atlético stumbled again in the same place where they did the other two times that, under Simeone's command, they fought for the League.
He fell 2-0 in 2014, entangling his last sprint to the title, and 2-1, in 2016, exhausting his options.
This time, at least, he collected a point.
Levante awaits him again on Sunday.
It will be another story, of course.
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