With time almost up, Diego Pablo Simeone rubbed his face in relief. His compatriot Leo

Messi

had just flown over Oblak's squad with the ball. The lack of

Kondogbia

opened the doors of heaven to Barcelona, ​​for a few moments. But that was it. Atlético left the Camp Nou without being able to break that 15-year streak without winning and, above all, without depending on itself. Now it is Real Madrid that has the title in hand, as long as it completes the four games it still has ahead of it. The first, this Sunday, against Sevilla, another contender.

"You have to be strong in your head. If you are good with your head, your legs will work for sure", was

Jan Oblak's

recipe

to face this final sprint. In two weeks, the League will come to an end. "Difficult games await us because everyone now plays a lot of things," he acknowledged in the 'Movistar' microphones.

Precisely Oblak celebrated his 300th game as a rojiblanco (just three from

Abel Resino's

record

) with several portentous saves.

All of them against Leo Messi.

"We know that it is Messi and we know how many fouls he has scored. They are players who define the game at any moment," he recalled, with the image of that last free kick still recent.

The goalkeeper already knew what it was like to fit in a direct shot from the Argentine and lose a duel for the League.

He suffered it in the 2017/18 season.

The goalless draw complicates the outcome of the League, but leads him to his fifth Zamora Trophy.

Saul's double change

Who did not last a quarter of an hour on the pitch was Thomas

Lemar

, who injured his left knee in a dispute for the ball and claimed the change without hesitation.

The Frenchman, one of Atlético's creative pillars, was replaced by Saúl, author of a double from the penalty spot in the last rojiblanca visit to Camp Nou (2-2).

The Spanish footballer lay down in the left lane and Carrasco was in charge of carrying out the Frenchman's duties.

The premature unforeseen event of the Frenchman was reminiscent of the untimely injuries of Arda and Costa, in the happy ending of the 13/14 season.

Saúl, with a yellow one, lasted less than an hour, something unthinkable in any other time, because he would be the one chosen to leave his place to

Joao Félix

.

Lemar retires injured from the Camp Nou.Enric FontcubertaEFE

Carrasco, who decided the first round match at the Metropolitano with a superb goal, took up the challenge in an outstanding way. His rides, as happened in his last adventure on the Barça pitch, on the last day of last June, were torture for the rival defenders. He even tried to draw a slalom similar to the one he successfully drew on the Wanda, only the ending was quite different. On that last visit, it was he who caused the two penalties that Saúl would transform. In that attempted assault prior to the Barcelona stadium, Carrasco woke up definitively.

However, it was from

Mario Hermoso's

boots

, blurred in recent days, where the best occasions emerged. Like Correa's, which would end up ruining

Lenglet

. Hermoso would also block a shot from Ilaix Moriba that could have changed the course of the great duel.

Luis Suárez

fought

for a goal that never came.

In the last half hour, with the collaboration of Joao Félix, who took an hour to seek his leading role.

"We have shown that we came to win the game, especially in the first half. There are three games left and we have to keep fighting. Let's see what happens," said Oblak, the second rojiblanco captain, aware that things have changed.

That they no longer depend on themselves.

At least until what happens in Valdebebas between Real Madrid and Sevilla.

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