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At the last minute, when it seemed that he was passing through the derby, Benzema wrote the last sentence of an afternoon.

He crossed the red-and-white wire confident in his destiny and ended up pushing Casemiro's gift with which the League remains in suspense.

And all, when it seemed that the genius of Luis Suárez would be a perfect solution to achieve Atlético's first victory against the neighbor in the Metropolitano.

A point that does not solve the life of either, but maintains both with the same spirit for the League.

A final episode awaits the leader this week, against Athletic, to definitively update his accounts.

And it is that there are evenings made genetically to measure of some footballers.

This is the case, for example, of Luis Suárez, whose nonconformist spirit continues to erase the trace of his age.

The Uruguayan, who has lived a thousand battles against Real Madrid, woke up from his lethargy with one of those gestures that are already part of derby history.

It took him a quarter of an hour to kiss the bandage again.

Again his connection with Llorente, freed from the reins with the return of Trippier, and a thousandth smarter than Nacho, brought him face to face with Courtois.

With his corner, Suarez followed the formidable gallop of his best partner, set the handbrake a thousandth to corner offside and sharpened his hips to the limit to detonate the explosive with the outside of his right boot.

A touch of plasticity, perhaps the only way to outwit the huge Belgian goalkeeper, with which Atlético began to shake off those nerves that usually accompany duels in the capital.

The rojiblanco team started at full speed convinced.

It had been weeks, months, without being able to unfold the flight with those irreplaceable wings that are Carrasco and Trippier.

The first, due to injury.

The second, due to the famous gambling sanction.

So, Atlético entered the derby with the ease they used to show when their spirits didn't seem to be holding back.

Real Madrid, a couple of marches slower, must have been surprised by such verve.

Modric, Kroos and Casemiro watched the ball go by, without the possibility of getting a glove.

The rojiblancos lived happy and comfortable, who did not have Joao Félix at the beginning.

In great battles, Simeone must have thought, Correa's fang is more necessary, he obeys whatever orders without question.

This time, as he did against Chelsea, he had to throw a cable back to stop Mendy's momentum.

In these, among many other things, the Argentine was rolled up.

Madrid walked, already with the ball, and Atlético ran into space, with Suárez's blow on the scoreboard.

And in those, while Benzema finished off on the air what Suárez had previously turned into gold, the VAR called Hernández Hernández to chapter.

A corner kick from Kroos, a ball that hits Felipe's arm that moves away and another of those fuss that there is no way to unravel.

It could have been a penalty, as so many have been called.

It shouldn't have been pentalti, if common sense rules.

And as it prevailed, the matter was resolved with the referee confirming that there was nothing to whistle.

Confirming, also, that there is no strict criterion and that, in situations like this, anything can happen.

This time it happened that the derby went to the locker room with a good murmur.

Real Madrid continued to spin around for a while after the break, while Atlético returned to action, with the clear premise of blowing up the duel.

Carrasco could well have done it, delighted, like Llorente, with the meadow that the white team left free.

Suarez could well have done it, with his dose of poison always ready to serve.

But in both, as is assumed, the tentacles of Courtois stuck out endlessly.

The Belgian goalkeeper kept Real Madrid throbbing as they grabbed the ball to find their chance.

Benzema, lacking in speed and spark after his injury, never seemed like a real threat to Oblak.

Although in these matters, with players of his stature, you always have to rush the clock to write.

The rojiblancos took shelter in their area, sometimes drawing a line of six with Correa, trying to find the definitive counter that never came.

They lacked a bit of bad milk at the top.

With the lesson learned from Valdebebas, Atlético wove a plan that was sustained almost until sunset, thanks to Jan Oblak.

Without him, many of the rojiblancas fantasies in recent times would not have been possible.

Twice he denied

Benzema

the goal

.

Twice he appeared in the silence of the Metropolitan, where the Slovenian goalkeeper imagined the roar of the stands feeling safe behind his gloves.

He could not reply to that last and accurate blow of the Frenchman, who entered the trench with

Casemiro

and ended up twisting the gesture of Simeone, who believed he had his first victory against his neighbor in five years in his pocket.

At the last minute, the derby left things as they were.

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