• Chronicle Atlético gives up in San Mamés and leaves the League in a handkerchief

  • The Lawn Cutter Simeone, Don Tacañón, by Julián Ruiz

Luis Suárez and Joao Félix, also Lemar, came to the rescue just after the second half started. They had seen from the cold stands of San Mamés how Athletic surpassed their teammates for a long time and the script seemed to be drawn for them, back after overcoming their respective injuries. There will be those who think that they entered late, but prudence, with five games to go, prevailed in the shadow of a definitive relapse. «The team had been doing good performances and I thought that the changes were going to give us things to continue competing. Sometimes what one imagines does not come out, "explained Simeone after the match.

With them, with the starting trident, Atlético improved. It even reached a tie for a few minutes. However, their return was not enough to avoid the shipwreck. The fourth of the season in the League and, also, the one that can put an end to his leadership. Everything will depend on what Barcelona does on Thursday against

Granada

, at the Camp Nou.

“We are screwed, because we seek victory in every way. In an isolated play they scored a goal for us. We are going to fight until the end and we believe that we can win the five games that remain, "admitted

Koke

, the rojiblanco captain, who missed the rival's mark on the corner kick that led to that lethal header with which Íñigo Martinez has compressed the League. Sevilla, fourth classified, appears to only three points.

The same strategy that had returned their smile, with

Stefan Savic's

third goal as a rojiblanco

(198 games), turned their faces back minutes later, when they thought that a point in Bilbao did not seem such a bad booty. Atlético has already accumulated two months without winning a game away from the Metropolitano, hence the new situation in which it lives, difficult to imagine in that last victory away, against

Villarreal

. Since that night, Simeone's men have dropped 12 points in three draws and two losses. That of San Mamés, due to the context and the minute of the blow, very painful.

For a while (rather short) Correa, Llorente, Carrasco, Suárez, Joao Félix and Lemar got together on the pitch.

It didn't last long, at least all of them, but Simeone drew on the ammunition at his disposal to chase at least the tie.

Íñigo Martínez's

head

avoided it.

"They are vital points because we came from some hard blows," said the Basque center-back, referring to the two Copa del Rey finals lost in a month.

Next Saturday, in Elche, Atlético begins this winding path.

«Whoever has more mental strength, will be closer to winning.

The key will be in the emotional balance », concluded Simeone.

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