CARLOS GUISASOLA
@C_Guisasola
Madrid
Updated Saturday, 17April2021-22: 02
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If the people of Egypt encountered 10 plagues thousands of years ago, as divine punishment (according to biblical accounts), Atlético has encountered seven, perhaps more, in 2021 where they have lost the aura that led them to be almost immortal in the first round.
CORONAVIRUS
In the twilight of January, with the team at full blast, a coronavirus storm broke out in the locker room that almost became an outbreak. It was not because there were not three infected in 72 hours.
Hermoso
and
Carrasco
tested positive on January 30, later that of
Joao Félix
would arrive
, later that of
Dembélé
and as a culmination, 10 days later, those of
Lemar
and
Herrera
.
So Atlético started February with six cases.
Since then, coincidence or not, the rojiblancos have not won two games in a row.
And that they had come after chaining eight consecutive wins in the League.
Except for Lemar (and little by little Carrasco), none of those mentioned has been the same again.
Hermoso, a pillar of defense, landed urgently in Granada, without training.
Joao, now weighed down by an ankle injury, lives far from those sweet autumn days.
YELLOW FEVER
Up to 12 teams, led by Celta (510), have committed more fouls than the 397 that Atlético has to date.
However, only two (Getafe and Celta) have received more yellow cards than the 82 (47 in 2021) from Simeone's boys.
In fact, the most admonished footballer is
Stefan Savic
, with 13 cards.
The point is that a good part of the cards have arrived more by verbal intensity than by excesses on the grass.
A week ago, without going any further,
Suárez
(who is also injured) and
Llorente
completed the cycle at Villamarín.
Of the 10 cards between the two, eight came due to protests or discussions.
PARANORMAL CASES
There is no other way to classify two plays that could have changed the course of the team.
The first occurred in the Levante field.
Suárez finishes off,
Aitor Fernández
rejects and Correa, with all the available goal, sends the ball over the crossbar.
It would have been the 1-2 of a draw with which Atlético began to get stuck.
Three days later, again against the same rival, only in the Wanda, the rojiblancos fired 28 times, this time on the goal defended by
Dani Cárdenas
, the second goalkeeper, and left with a defeat (0-2).
A
Dembélé
, reinforcing winter yet to
be discovered, was presented in Getafe the opportunity to tear down the wall
Bordalás
.
He had such a panoramic view that he sent the ball away and his team lost two points.
CHAMPIONS VIRUSES
No one else played home thousands of miles from home and visited the rival's home in the second leg.
Between
Bucharest
and
London
an unrecognizable Atlético vanished from Europe.
He fell at the hands of Chelsea, who won both games, and still carries the wound.
This same week, Savic was suspended four games for his expulsion.
A FATAL BET
Atlético woke up in 2021 without one of its right daggers.
Trippier
was punished in the twilight of 2020 with 10 weeks without playing and a fine of 80,000 euros.
And all for a bet of the summer of 2018, related to his own transfer to the Metropolitan.
Simeone tried unsuccessfully to find a solution to cushion his absence.
The least bad start, after trying with
Vrsaljko
and
Giménez
, was losing
Llorente
to the offensive cause
and converting him into a simple side.
The leader lost flight without the British.
INJURIES
Arrive at Pizjuán and suddenly find that
Savic
, your best defense, suffers from intestinal problems.
Landing again in Seville, a week ago, and running into at the last minute that
Lemar
, the most clairvoyant, is not here to jump into the field.
Joao Félix
and
Trippier
were badly injured from Villamarín
, who will be available this Sunday.
Since January Suárez, Carrasco, Herrera or Vrsaljko have fallen.
ONE '9' ONLY
Costa disappeared in the twilight of 2020 and
Dembélé
, a Frenchman with a good footing but without minutes at Lyon this season, landed as he could under the storm Filomena.
He was supposed to give
Suarez a
break
and fight to stay (purchase option of
33 million
).
His contribution: 87 minutes in four games, zero goals and a good scare with that faint in training.
Today he returns to the scene against Eibar.
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